[1] She is the founder of FacePrint, a medical technology venture focused on developing facial recognition software for assisting in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
[2] In 2018, Smith was recognized as a Thiel Fellow, and in 2022, she was awarded the first place Young Inventors Prize by the European Patent Office.
[2][5] She had also previously watched the show Lie To Me, which features a scientist character based on Paul Ekman, who studied facial expressions, which contributed to her interest in developing technology to detect Parkinson's by monitoring faces.
[6] In 2016, she participated in the BuiltByGirls Future Founder challenge at Twitter headquarters, where she emerged as the winner, securing a $10,000 prize to further her research and development of the app, as well as to apply for a full patent on her work.
[1] In 2017, Smith was selected for the Research Science Institute summer program jointly sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT.