Smirnov is the founder of the Theremin Centre, a research fellow at the Centre for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory, the head of the Rodchenko Sound Lab, and a lecturer at the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow. He teaches History and the Aesthetics of electro-acoustic music, composition, and new musical interfaces. His main ongoing project is focused on restoring the censored history of artistically utopian early 20th century Russia. He is the author of the book Sound In Z: Experiments In Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia (Walther Koenig & Sound and Music, London, 2013).