Faculty
Dr. Jacob Smith
Assistant Professor
Office Location N308 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4400
Fax 713-743-4444
Email jgsmith5 [at] central.uh.edu
Education
Ph.D Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2023
BS Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2018
Awards & Honors
Center for Nanophase Materials Science Postdoc of the Year, 2025
Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Poster Award – 1st Place, 2023
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate Opportunities Fellowship, 2022
North Carolina State University Provost’s Doctoral Fellowship, 2018
North Carolina State University Graduate Merit Award, 2018
Research Interests
Transmission electron microscopy, materials science, machine learning for visual and multimodal data analysis, quantitative statistics, FPGA devices, automation in data acquisition and analysis
Selected Publications
Smith, J. et al. Advanced Compressive Sensing and Dynamic Sampling for 4D-STEM Imaging of Interfaces. Small Methods 9, 2400742 (2025).
Smith, J. et al. Sintering Mechanism of Pt/Al2O3 in Complex Emission Gases Elucidated via In Situ Environmental STEM. ACS Materials Lett. 6, 3301–3311 (2024).
Smith, J. et al. Disproportionation chemistry in K2PtCl4 visualized at atomic resolution using scanning transmission electron microscopy. Science Advances 10, eadi0175 (2024).