Leela’s co-founders met as students at MIT. They bring to the Somerville, MA company extensive technical and business experience in AI, natural language, computer science, and manufacturing.
CTO
Henry is the driving force behind the core Leela AI software. He worked on computer vision systems at the MIT AI Lab and on distributed location-based services and wearable sensor networks at NTT DoCoMo. Most recently he worked at Google’s Nest Labs. (BSc. MSc. MIT)
CEO
Cyrus is an entrepreneur and computational neuroscientist with expertise in computational cognitive modeling. Cyrus was co-founder and CTO of Digital Garage, which he led from a start-up to a successful IPO. (BSc. MIT, PhD U Alberta)
VP PRODUCT
Milan brings extensive experience in venture backed technology startups. She worked at HP/Agilent Labs, co-founded UV-C LED startup RayVio, and has played a key role in multiple hardware/manufacturing startups. (BSc.MSc. MBA MIT, PhD UCSB)
VP APPLICATIONS
Sheung has led product and marketing at multiple startups and is an expert in using machine vision in manufacturing. (BSc. MIT, MSc MBA Stanford)
SENIOR AI RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Steve is an expert on the application of deep learning to hard problems in AI. He has led CPU and chip design at AMD, National Semiconductor, and HP. (BSc U Illinois, MSc MIT, PhD CSU)