Dr. Wei-Shin Lai

Dr. Wei-Shin Lai is the inventor of SleepPhones and CEO of AcousticSheep, LLC. She created SleepPhones -- a comfortable, innovative headphone solution designed to help people fall asleep -- when lack of sleep became a personal issue. Dr. Lai earned a B.S. with distinction in Cellular Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan with the intent of studying the Ebola virus. However, her thirst for adventure and travel was tamed when she realized that for her to be truly happy, she had to interact with people instead of staying holed up in a lab. She graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School and went into family medicine. Now, Dr. Lai lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania and continues to work part-time at Penn State University's Student Health Center as the only Mandarin-speaking physician on staff.