Ray Liao
Cofounder, CEO at Inkbox
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Liao is a PhD-trained machine learning researcher turned startup founder with a decade of experience building AI-driven healthcare and consumer products from Cambridge, MA. As cofounder and CEO of Inkbox and previously CTO at Empallo, he has led teams to deploy clinical-grade cardiovascular virtual care and consumer AI products, translating MIT research into production systems. His background includes research internships at Meta (AR/VR gesture recognition) and Mass General Brigham (surgical software), giving him rare domain fluency across healthcare, interaction tech, and ML. Trained at Tsinghua and MIT, he blends deep technical rigor with operator instincts and a knack for shipping user-facing AI systems. An early founder of VectorlyApp, he quietly combines academic depth with a pragmatic focus on deployment and clinical impact.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Visiting student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (28)
reproducible-research10
artwork9
raycasting9
medical-imaging9
interaction8
medical8
depth8
pangolin8
style-transfer8
imaging7
open-source7
icu7
mri7
rapid6
datasets6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RayRuizhiLiao/mutual_info_img_txt
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
RayRuizhiLiao/ITK_4D
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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