Spencer Smith

University of California, Santa Barbara
POSITIONS HELD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering; Co-Director, USCB Brain Initiative
University of California, Santa Barbara
AWARDS
2015
McKnight Award
2013
Klingenstein Fund
Education
2004
PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
1998
B.S.
University of Iowa
Publications
Research Resources
Related Research Resources
BrainModules
Software
BrainModules is an online interactive visualization tool of the brain architecture based on the tracer database.
Two Photon Microscopy
Instrumentation
In this YouTube video, Che-Hang Yu and Spencer LaVere Smith at UC Santa Barbara talk about two photon microscopy.
Fourier Optics
Instrumentation
“The Fourier transform is a mathematical tool for representing an arbitrary function with a superposition sine waves,” states Spencer LaVere Smith at UC Santa Barbara. In this YouTube video, Smith and Che-Hang Yu discusses fourier optics.
Adaptive Optics
Instrumentation
UC Santa Barbara’s Che-Hang Yu has built a demo system that involves a deformable mirror and a Hartmann wavefront sensor. In this YouTube video, Yu demonstrates how this system can be used to measure optical aberrations and correct for them.