Erin Smith (entrepreneur)

Erin Smith is an American entrepreneur, 2019 Thiel Fellow, and founder of FacePrint.[1]

Erin Smith
Personal details
Born (1999-12-26) December 26, 1999
Lenexa, KS, U.S.
EducationStanford University

Early life and education

Erin Smith was born in 1999[2] in St. Charles, Illinois, a suburb outside of Chicago. In 2001 her family moved to Lenexa, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. She is the middle child in her family, with two older sisters and two younger brothers. Growing up, she was passionate about science, and enjoyed doing science experiments in her kitchen with her mom. The summer before her senior year of high school, she participated in MIT's Research Science Institute.[3][4] While accepted to Stanford University in 2018, Erin Smith deferred her acceptance to become a 2019 Thiel Fellow.[1] She started attending Stanford in 2019, planning to major in Symbolic Systems.

FacePrint

While still in high school, Erin was watching video's of Michael J. Fox, when she noticed that people with Parkinson's Disease had distant smiles and laughs. Around the same time, she watched the show Lie To Me, and became obsessed with the monitoring of faces. She developed FacePrint, a software to detect Parkinson's Disease by monitoring the patients reactions to different objects on the screen, including emojis and commercials.

Awards and honors

References
  1. Startland Staff (August 17, 2018). "Lenexa teen IDs winning solution with Parkinson's detection tech FacePrint". Startland News. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  2. "Erin Smith". three dot dash. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  3. "RSI Welcomes 80 Top Scholars to 2017 Summer STEM Institute | Center for Excellence in Education". www.cee.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. "Davidson Fellow - Erin Smith". www.davidsongifted.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  5. Katwala, Amit (June 10, 2019). "A YouTube binge helped invent a new way to diagnose Parkinson's". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. "Erin Smith, 18". Forbes. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  7. Senter, Jay (November 21, 2018). "SM West grad Erin Smith is youngest member of Forbes 30 Under 30 healthcare list". Shawnee Mission Post - Community news and events for northeast Johnson County. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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