Steve Smith is currently a professor and the head of Nanoscience and Biomedical Engineering at South Dakota Mines. He also served as a rotating program officer for the Biomaterials Program in the Division of Materials Research, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation from 2019-2021.  His research expertise focuses on exploiting light-matter interactions with nanomaterials using optical imaging and spectroscopy methods. Current interests include spectrally-resolved nonlinear optical microscopy with nanoscale spatial resolution, including multiphoton imaging of plasmonic meta-surfaces, low dimensional quantum materials, upconverting nanomaterials, multiphoton microscopy and correlative optical, atomic force and electron microscopy of bio-nanomaterials.