A Timeline of Her Career in Advanced Display Tech
Summary
In March 2015, Jepsen joined Facebook and Oculus—the virtual reality headset maker acquired by Mark Zuckerberg’s company in 2014 for $2 billion.She has served as the companies’ executive director of engineering, working on advanced consumer electronics and display design and manufacturing initiatives.Before Facebook/Oculus, Jepsen spent three years as the head of the display division at Google X, the Internet giant’s in-house incubator of moonshot ideas.In 2004, Jepsen served as the CTO of Intel’s display division, working on the technology and design of the company’s products used in HDTVs.She later spent a couple years as a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded the “Nomadic Displays Group” in part to try and solve the “awkwardness and usability of today’s devices,” according to her personal website.