Stephen Smith is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford and founded the Analysis Group there in 1997. He is the co-founder of FSL (FMRIB Software Library, www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl) and has written many tools for analysis of structural, diffusion and functional data, with a recent emphasis on resting-state imaging. In 2007 he received the Wiley Young Investigator Award from the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping.