Layla Mah
Founder & CEO at InsightfulVR
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLayla Mah is a founder and CEO with a decade of deep engineering and research experience bridging graphics, VR, robotics, and biomedical sciences. She led AMD’s LiquidVR initiative and built cross-disciplinary teams focused on hardware-software co-design for next-generation rendering and compute, then spun that expertise into InsightfulVR. Self-taught across molecular biology, clinical medicine, electronics, and full-stack robotics, she combines systems-level architecture skills (GPU/SoC, compilers, optimization) with product and business development instincts. A polyglot communicator and experienced public speaker, she excels at translating advanced R&D into compelling product roadmaps and industry partnerships. Unusually, her background includes full-time dance study and arts exchange in China, reflecting a mix of technical rigor and creative practice that informs her leadership and design sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Chinese Language Chinese Landscape Painting Caligraphy etc., Exchange Chinese Language Chinese Landscape Painting Caligraphy etc. at East China Normal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
md510
bitbake10
windows10
websocket10
iso10
build-automation10
squashfs10
sftp10
software-design10
multicore10
msr10
ftp10
ftps10
openframeworks10
large-files10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
missmah/fastbuild
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
High performance build system for Windows, OSX and Linux. Supporting caching, network distribution and more.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years
multithreadingc-plus-plusbitbakebuild-systemmacos
missmah/FASTBuild-UE4
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
unreal-engineunrealenginefastbuildue4steps
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