Benjamin Hatfield Smith, PhD
Ben Smith is the security and compliance focal for IBM's Support for Hyperledger Fabric Offering, IBM's commercially provided version of the open source Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain. Ben joined IBM in 2012, and works at IBM's Research Triangle Park location in North Carolina. Ben started work at IBM with IBM Cloud, IBM's platform for infrastructure, platform, and software services in cloud. Ben helped stand up the initial instance of IBM's Cloud, at that time called Bluemix, and worked with the WebSphere team to integrate WebSphere Liberty into IBM Cloud through developing and contributing to the IBM WebSphere Liberty Buildpack, the tool that helps WebSphere users run their apps in Cloud Foundry environments.
Ben is a recipient of the IBM PhD Fellowship for 2010 and 2011. He received his Bachelor's in Computer Science in May of 2007, and received his Master's of Science in Computer Science in May of 2009. He received his Doctorate in Computer Science in 2012, advised by Dr. Laurie Williams at North Carolina State University.
Ben is also a musician, and has been playing piano since high school. He experiments with home recording and is working on writing an album. Some of his music can be found on bandcamp. Ben enjoys hiking and experimenting with Raspberry Pi in his free time.
Ben's Publications
Credly Badges
Other
Conference Reviewer
- ICACON 2015,
2016
- MSR 2010
- Agile 2009
- ISSRE 2008, 2010
- ESEM 2008, 2010, 2011
- ICST 2008, 2009, 2010
- SECTEST 2008, 2011
- ICSE 2008, 2010, 2011,
2012
- RE 2008
- Mutation 2009,
2010
- ESSoS 2009, 2012
- SEHC 2011
Journal Reviewer
- Empirical Software Engineering
- IET Software
- IEEE Security and Privacy
- Information and Software Technology
Conference Organization
- Local Arrangements, Web Chair, ESEM 2009
Guest lecturer
- Guest Lecturer at NC State for Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering 2016-2018.
- Local Arrangements, Web Chair, ESEM 2009