Andrew SmithApplied AI & Data
I build AI and data systems for science and mission-driven organizations, from an agentic platform serving 120,000 nonprofit constituents to generative models for drug discovery published at ICML 2025. I lead communications and analytics at Glacier National Park Conservancy and teach graduate deep learning at Johns Hopkins, where I earned an MS in Bioinformatics (4.0).
Open to applied AI, data and analytics roles in tech, research or the nonprofit sector
Andrew.P.Smith95@gmail.comExperience
2017 – presentAssociate Director of Communications and Analytics
Dec 2025 – present- Write custom software and build internal AI tools across the organization, including an agentic marketing platform serving 120,000 constituents
- Promoted from Communications Lead to direct integrated communications strategy with measurable goals for philanthropic giving and online retail revenue
- Serve on the Executive Team, reporting to the President; supervise the Creative Lead and Communications Fellow
- Use analytics to guide fundraising and retail strategy as part of a team that grew annual contributions 51% ($3.6M to $5.4M) and retail sales 71% ($4.6M to $7.8M) from 2022 to 2025
Communications Lead
Jul 2022 – Dec 2025- Developed and executed a strategy to help scientists communicate their research to the public
- Automated processes to scale communications while increasing personalization and relevance
Assistant Instructor
Aug 2026 – presentDeep Learning with Transformers · ChatGPT from Scratch · Quantum Machine Learning
- Promoted from Teaching Assistant to instruct graduate courses in deep learning, large language models and quantum machine learning
- Helped develop the Quantum Machine Learning course
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2025 – Aug 2026Advanced Applied Machine Learning · Deep Learning with Transformers · ChatGPT from Scratch
- Supported graduate instruction across machine learning, deep learning and large language models
- Guided students through complex ML implementations and research methodology
Visual Information Specialist
Apr 2020 – Jun 2022- Produced and hosted the Headwaters podcast, which reached #1 in Nature on Apple Podcasts; season two earned the NPS Intermountain Freeman Tilden Award
- Designed educational wayside signs for park roads
Naturalist Park Ranger
May 2017 – Apr 2020- Delivered more than 200 public educational programs to over 8,500 park visitors
Selected work
All 10 projects →| No. | Year | Title | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 2025– | Agentic Marketing Automation for Nonprofit FundraisingLLM brand review and agentic persona segmentation for 120,000 constituents. Claude, Gemini, Drip. | System | Glacier National Park Conservancy · in production |
| 02 | 2025 | Bridging Quantum and Classical Computing in Drug DesignHybrid quantum–classical molecule generation; 2.27× candidate quality with 60% fewer parameters. | Paper | ICML 2025, Generative Biology Workshop |
| 03 | 2023– | Glacier Daily UpdatesAutomated daily conditions email for 2,500 subscribers, built from weather, air quality, trail, road, aurora and webcam data. | System | Glacier National Park Conservancy · in production |
| 04 | 2025– | AI Email QA PortalFive-step pre-send check for every marketing email: links, AI grammar review, style guide, brand design, approvals. ~200 emails checked. | System | Glacier National Park Conservancy · in production |
| 05 | 2023– | Park Wi-Fi Email Signup PipelineGuest Wi-Fi splash page with location tagging and weekly reporting; about 2,000 new subscribers a week. | Pipeline | Glacier National Park Conservancy · in production |
| 06 | 2025 | De novo Antibody Generation with RFdiffusionEnd-to-end diffusion pipeline for novel antibodies, as a public Colab notebook and tutorial. | Tutorial | Google Colab · blog |
Education
- MS
- Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University · 4.0 GPA
- BA
- Religion, Philosophy, and Political Science, Middlebury College · summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Awards
- 2025
- Patrick Cummings Research Award, Johns Hopkins University
- 2022
- Intermountain Group Freeman Tilden Award, National Park Service