Mary Lou Jepsen Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Curing cancer, mental & neurodegenerative diseases and stroke via a wearable that can also enable brain computer interfaces and ultimately communication via thought. More details at www.openwater.cc

2022 Forbes 50 over 50 Awardee2019-21 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award2018 Forbes Top 50 women in technology 2008 TIME 100: named One of the 100 most influential people in world by Time Magazine 2018 Elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID)2015 NBA (National Basketball Association)/Cisco Inspiring the Future Award 2014 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate - Brown University 2013 CNN top 10 thinker2012 Named to top 50 female computer scientists of all-time - the Anita Borg Institute 2012 Elected Fellow of the Optica/Optical Society of America 2011 Awarded the Edwin Land Medal - Optical Society of America/Optical2011 Awarded the Anita Borg “Woman of Vision” Award for Innovation2011 Awarded the Brown Alumni Excellence in Engineering Medal - Brown University 2010 Won the Display of the Year Award - Society for Information Display (SID)2010 Won the World Technology Award : for individual contributions to hardware 2010 Laptop Magazine: named 19th most influential person in mobile computing 2010 IEEE ACE Award Grand Prize for best emerging technology (awarded to Pixel Qi)2010 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award”- 2010 (sunlit screens w/ color & video)2009 Best of Computex Award (Taiwan)2008 WITI Hall of Fame Inductee (Women in Technology International)2008 Horace Mann Medal - Brown University2008 Design of the Year - London Design Museum2007 INDEX Design Award - €100,000 for OLPC XO laptop2007 Mobile Innovation Award - Laptop Magazine2006 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award” (for $100 Laptop)2006 One of “100 Top Ideas of the Year” - New York Times 2006 IF Product Design Award1990 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award” (for Holographic Video System)1987 Brown University "George H Main Award" for distinguished senior in engineering

The clear leader in LiDAR system listed as LAZR (NASDAQ)

Southfield , Michigan, Us

NYSE:LEA - a global tier-1 automotive components supplier with ~$20B of annual revenue. Our manufacturing, engineering and administrative footprint covers 36 countries and 240 locations with approximately 185,000 employees worldwide.

Lear Corporation LEA:NYSE (a ~$20B Fortune 500 company in the automotive space)Luminar Technologies LAZR:NASDAQ (the world leader in LiDAR)Pixel Qi Corporation (chairman of board) (2008-2013)One Laptop per Child Non Profit Association (observer) (2005-8)Brown University Engineering Board (reports to president) 2012-presentMEDCO (Express Scripts) Innovation Board 2011-2013 Task Force / Advisory Experience:National Academies of Engineering, Science and Medicine joint committee on women 2015American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan - co-chair of technology committee 2010-2012Brown University School of Engineering Advisory Council IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory BoardUniv of Cal, Berkeley EECS advisory BoardUniv of Cal, Berkeley, School of Computing, Data Science & Society BoardGoogle Science Fair: Final Level - Judging for top winners - 2012-2015Brazilian Presidential Task Force on Computers for Education – 2005-6Chinese Academy of Science working group on computers and education 2005ITU Telecom World working group on digital divide 2006US State and Defense Departments Science Board contributor 2007Internet Archive “Books In Browsers” technology advisory board 2010-2EPEAT Technology Advisory Board on green devices 2008Grace Hopper – Women in Computer Science Exec Committee 2008Anita Borg Institute awards committee chair 2008-presentMagazine Publishers of America Task Force contributor on future devices & screens 2008-9Japanese Government, Industry and Academic Committee on e-publishing outlook 2007Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs - Digital Divide Division launch 2007UN World Summit on Information Society – 2005Taiwan National Labs (ITRI) “creativity in engineering” task force - 2006Uruguay Minister of Education Digital Education Task Force contributor – 2006-8Peru’s One Laptop Per Child Executive Committee contributor 2006-8

Mary Lou was both an architect and an executive at Facebook / Oculus leading various efforts including a continued transformation of the virtual reality experience. She had the fundamental insight that a move to liquid crystal based systems from OLED was critical to consumer grade product and pushed it's introduction into Oculus Quest 2 - the best selling VR product ever made smashing all sales records in VR and delivering billions of dollars in revenue. She invented and created new breakthrough systems including these low-persistence, high frame rate, rich pixel density screens and optical systems. She also pioneered a form of augmented reality with true foveal vision >180 degree FOV, large eye-box, embedded eye-tracking and alpha-channel mixed reality ability blackening selectively part of the scene all in a sunglasses form factor for low cost high volume production. This was with a novel way to seamlessly tile pixel groups on the back of the retina as if the retina at software selective resolution per pixel-group. In addition she led Facebook's first foray into brain computer interfaces (prior to any other efforts).

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mary Lou led display and hardware efforts throughout Google, and reported to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. While there she played a critical role in Google Glass, several Android programs and also founded and directed two “Moonshot” programs in Google [x]. She was responsible for invention and architecture, R&D (SW and HW engineering) and also business strategy, product management, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships. One program was reported by the WSJ to be large scale tile-able displays - aka "Lego-TV" the other hasn't been reported to date.

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Mary Lou founded Pixel Qi, the world’s only fabless display developer, as a spin-off of One Laptop per Child to extend and commercialize the breakthrough screen and power management architecture she invented and developed for the $100 laptop. She built a business to develop new screen architectures ready for mass production with less than a year of development time (display innovation typically takes a decade or more to reach fruition). Pixel Qi technology shipped several million units with >10x lower power consumption and sunlight readability while preserving color, video and image quality. As CEO, she oversaw business strategy, product management, R&D (SW and HW engineering), operations, raising funds, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Jepsen launched this non-profit organization with Nicholas Negroponte, and was its only employee for its first year. Jepsen invented the fundamental laptop architecture and a new screen and convinced some of world’s largest manufacturers to produce it. She oversaw sequential development from prototypes to scale-manufacture of the innovative underlying components, software, content, IP, firmware, and the entire system; managing over 1000 people. Millions of units shipped to nearly every country transforming opportunities for children in the developing world. Multi-billion dollar revenue went through OLPC and this catalyzed $30B of revenue for its for-profit partners. Its lasting legacy is in changing what a minister of education can do for a countries children. The CEO of Google is widely quote as saying the Chromebook is the grandchild of One Laptop per Child.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Jepsen joined the faculty of the MIT Media Lab where she initially co-founded One Laptop per Child and began the Nomadic Displays group. She drove work in a variety of areas including consumer electronics, software systems, display architecture, and user interfaces particularly for pre-literate children.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for overall architecture and design of Intel's next generation HDTV products - including optics, liquid crystals, testing, characterization, performance improvement, design and integration of electronics, ASICs, and manufacturing.

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Created microdisplay technology for virtual reality, augmented reality, wearables, and flat screen HDTVs. Shipped breakthrough product in all these areas working primarily with Asian manufacturers and brand names throughout the globe. Served as overall system architect, led design and integration of electronics, ASICs, optics, liquid crystals, optical engine, TV makers, head-mounted displays, cellphone makers, all for optimized manufacturability in product.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Part of early Lumileds effort contributing to breakthroughs in efficiency for LED devices now included in billions of devices. Developed Philips single-panel and triple-panel (500+ frame per second) liquid crystal on silicon devices and front- and rear- projection systems.

Honorary Doctorate

Honorary Doctorate

Phd, Optical Physics

Senior Fellow

Professor, Computer Science

Optical Computing, San Diego Fellow

Sc.M, Media Technology

Sc.B, Electrical Engineering; Studio Art (Req. For B.A.)