Dr. Shana S. Smith holds the position of Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University. Before joining National Taiwan University, Dr. Smith served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. Prior to her tenure at Iowa State University, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Smith’s teaching and research areas of expertise encompass haptic technology, human-computer interaction, user-centered design, and extended reality.  During her academic career, Dr. Smith was designated as a Miller Fellow for the year 2002-2003 at Iowa State University. She also served as the PI for a US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project aimed at enhancing undergraduate design and graphics courses using low-cost virtual reality technology. Dr. Smith was listed among the top 2% scientists worldwide in two categories: career-long impact (1960-2021) and single recent year impact (2021). This acknowledgment comes from the “September 2022 data-update for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators'” available through Elsevier Data Repository, V5.