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Bio: Kendrick Smith is the Daniel Family James Peebles Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is a "data-oriented" cosmologist: his work is a mixture of theoretical physics, phenomenology, computational physics, statistics, and data analysis. He has been a member of several large experiments, including the WMAP and Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) satellites. Most recently, he has joined CHIME, a new experiment in British Columbia which aims to measure the radio sky to orders of magnitude better sensitivity than previous all-sky surveys, with a wide variety of applications. It is the first new Canadian research telescope in several decades. His best-known work is on CMB data analysis and phenomenology, including a classification of observable signals from self-interactions of the inflaton, and the first detection of gravitational lensing in the CMB. Recently, he has been interested in new data analysis techniques for large scale structure and radio astronomy. (Credit: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/kendrick-smith)