Pete Smith is vice provost for digital teaching and learning at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA), where he oversees the new office of University Analytics, as well as the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge, a learning analytics research laboratory. His teaching and research focuses on big data in education, natural language processing and translation automation. Pete teaches and researches actively with students and faculty colleagues in Russia and globally via numerous virtual classroom and teaching exchanges. His teaching includes oversight of UTA’s localization and translation certificate, offered to students of seven languages as an introduction to localization and the localization industry.