Thomas A. Smith

Who is Thomas A. Smith?

Thomas A. Smith is the founder and former president of Seismic Micro-Technology, an international provider of software systems for seismic interpretation in the oil and gas industry, incorporated in 1984. Shortly after, he launched the Kingdom seismic interpretation software. In 2007, Smith sold the majority of stock in the company to a group of investors, while retaining a position on the SMT’s Board of Directors. In 2009 he founded Geophysical Insights, a Houston firm engaged in research, development, and application of unsupervised neural networks for advanced seismic interpretation, among other advanced geophysical analysis methods and tools.

Smith received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Geology at Iowa State University. His MS research was in shallow refraction investigation of the Manson astrobleme. In 1971 Smith joined Chevron Geophysical and worked as a geophysicist in seismic processing and software development until 1980. In 1981 Smith earned a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Houston under Fred Hilterman.