Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen is an American technologist and entrepreneur in the field of medical technology and computational imaging, and the founder and Executive Chairman of Openwater. She is known for pioneering work in the design and commercialization of display, projection and imaging systems, including laptops, projection displays, televisions, screens, touch-enabled systems, and holographic and light-field displays. She earned a Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering and an A.B. in Studio Art from Brown University, an M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1989, where she co-created one of the first fully computed digital holographic video systems, and a PhD in Optical Sciences from Brown. She has held research and executive engineering roles at the MIT Media Lab, Google, Meta (Facebook) and Intel, and was co-founder, chief technology officer and Chief Architect of One Laptop per Child. Her honours include the Time 100, the Edwin H. Land Medal of the Optical Society and the 2007 INDEX Design Award for the OLPC laptop.