Emily Ma

Emily Ma heads special projects in business innovation at X, the moonshot factory formerly known as Google[x] that focuses on developing high-impact hardware technologies that have the potential to massively improve hundreds of millions of lives. Projects include the self-driving car and the smart contact lens, which aims to change the lives of 450 million diabetics by monitoring biochemistry in real time.

Ma works at the intersection of business, technology, geopolitics and design, which is fundamental to the ‘moonshot thinking’ mindset at X. She started her career as a mechanical engineer and roboticist, and currently holds lecturer appointments jointly at the Stanford School of Engineering and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Emily holds seven patents spanning medical devices to consumer electronics and has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering, and an MBA, from Stanford University.