Krista Smith

Krista Smith is an accomplished data scientist currently serving as a Senior Data Scientist at Prealize Health since July 2025. Prior experience includes a role as Senior Data Scientist at Thomson Reuters Special Services from August 2022 to August 2025, and a Data Scientist position at Novant Health from February 2022 to September 2022. At BigBear.ai, Krista advanced to Senior Data Scientist, focusing on machine learning applications for maritime drug activity identification, utilizing diverse data sources and developing sophisticated models. Additionally, Krista worked as a Computational Biologist/Data Scientist at ARA from December 2018 to January 2020, contributing to modeling projects related to nuclear detonation effects. Krista holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from George Mason University and a Master of Science in Molecular Biology from Wright State University.