Jonathan M. Smith is the Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor of Engineering and Applied Science[1] at the University of Pennsylvania.
in Mathematics at Boston College in 1981 and then joined Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff, focusing on UNIX internals, tools, and distributed computing technology.
[3] He then joined the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor.
[6] In 2003, he was appointed the first incumbent of the newly created Olga and Alberico Pompa Professorship at Penn Engineering.
At the end of his tour, he was awarded the OSD Medal for Exceptional Public Service.