Английская Википедия:Erin Smith (entrepreneur)
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Erin Smith is an American entrepreneur and inventor.[1] She is the founder of FacePrint, a medical technology venture that is developing facial recognition software to assist with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.[2] Smith was a Thiel Fellow in 2018, and was awarded the first place Young Inventors Prize from the European Patent Office in 2022.[3]
Biography
Erin Smith was raised in Lenexa, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City.[4] She has two older sisters and two younger brothers.[4]
During high school, while watching a video interview of Michael J. Fox, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she observed a distinct emotional distance in his facial expressions.[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.[2][4] Smith continued to watch more video interviews of people with Parkinson's and conducted her own research.[2][6]
During a spring break from school, she conducted a study on people with Parkinson's and control subjects without Parkinson's, to document both spontaneous expressions in response to videos and intentional expressions made by subjects attempting to mirror another face.[2] She used the facial recognition software Affdex to help measure the results.[2] She later received support from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for two additional pilot studies,[2] including a study that that filmed subjects with webcams while they watched Super Bowl commercials and tried to mirror the expressions of emoji.[6]
In 2016, she participated in the BuiltByGirls Future Founder challenge at Twitter headquarters and won a $10,000 prize to continue researching and developing the app, and apply for a full patent on her work.[6] Smith also received mentoring from the University of Missouri–Kansas City Small Business & Technology Development Center for two years to develop FacePrint into a business.[1]
In 2017, Smith was selected for the Research Science Institute summer program jointly sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT.[7] She graduated high school in 2018 and was accepted by Stanford University, but deferred admission to become a 2018 Thiel Fellow for two years.[1][8] FacePrint began clinical trials in 2019[2] with Stanford Medical School and the Michael J. Fox Foundation.[9]
As a student at Stanford University, Smith became an ambassador for the IF/THEN collective, an organization that seeks to support women in STEM careers.[9]
Awards and honors
- 2017 International BioGENEius Challenge[10]
- 2018 Davidson Fellow[11]
- 2018 Global Teen Leader
- 2018 Regeneron STS Scholar by the Society for Science and the Public[8]
- 2018 Thiel Fellow
- 2019 Wired Top Health Startup[2]
- 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30[12]
- 2020 Voices of the Year, Seventeen Magazine[9]
- 2022 European Patent Office Young Inventor Award, 1st place[13][3]
References
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