Carol E. Reiley

She joined All Raise, a nonprofit organization that’s behind diversity and inclusion efforts, as a mentor and a Founder for Change (2018).

In 2018, she announced that she was a spokesmodel for Guerlain and Harper's Bazaar China, to launch a new international beauty campaign. She has been profiled in British Vogue, New York Times, and Wired for her work in AI.

In 2018, she joined the San Francisco Symphony as one of the eight founding creative advisory board under its new musical director Esa-Pekka Salonen which include an Academy Award-nominated composer and McArthur Genius award winning musicians.

As of 2018, she has eight technical patents, and has authored more than a dozen papers published in various scientific conference proceedings, refereed journals and conferences.

Reiley founded Squishybotz, and education company and is the author and publisher of Making a Splash, a children's book about growth mindset (2015).

In 2015, she co-founded and was President of Drive.ai. She was the initial investor and seed funded the company from her wedding fund. In 2018, she started a new healthcare startup though she still serves on the board and is an advisor to drive.ai. She also serves on Santa Clara University Engineering Advisory Board.

She married Andrew Ng in 2014. Their engagement announcement was featured in IEEE Spectrum. Ng and Reiley have a daughter together, born in 2019.

In 2011, Reiley founded and ran Tinkerbelle Labs, an open-source company focused on empowering hobbyists to build low-cost, do-it-yourself projects.

Reiley was named a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2008–2010) to research strategies for improving human and robotic interaction for her PhD. She was elected to serve on the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society board (2008-2009) to put together key initiatives for thousands of graduate researchers. She was the youngest member to serve on the board.

She was an instructor at Johns Hopkins University co-teaching intersession courses Haptics For Surgical Robotics (2006); and Developing Facebook Apps (2009).

Reiley received her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University in 2004 with a concentration in robotics research, and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2007, specializing in haptics. She then enrolled in a Ph.D. program (ABD) specializing in computer vision / artificial intelligence, which she never completed. She spent a year at Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab with her Ph.D. advisor, who was on sabbatical there.

Reiley has been an active advocate for diversity in engineering and AI. While at Johns Hopkins University, she was on the founding board of the Graduate Women's Organization and the Whiting School of Engineering Diversity Board. At Santa Clara University, she cofounded chapters of Association for Computing Machinery and Society of Women Engineering. She led the JHU Robotics Systems Challenge (2004-2011), SWE and ACM events, and Computer Mania Day workshops which served thousands of underserved minority students. She published a study in an education journal about diversity of middle and high school students in robot competitions.

Carol Elizabeth Reiley (born 1982) is an American businesswoman, computer scientist, and writer. She is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems in applications such as surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue and self driving cars. Reiley previously worked at Intuitive Surgical, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric. She co-founded, invested in, and was President of Drive.ai raising over $77 million. She is a published children's book author, is currently CEO of a healthcare startup, a creative advisor for the San Francisco Symphony, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics. She is the first female engineer on the cover of MAKE magazine, and is recognized by Forbes, Inc, and Quartz as a top female entrepreneur.

Carol Elizabeth Reiley was born in Flint, Michigan in 1982 and at a young age her family moved to Vancouver, Washington. Her father is an engineer and her mother a flight attendant; Reiley credits both for her interest in technology and global humanitarian work. She has one younger brother, who is also an engineer. Reiley is of Chinese descent and grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household.