Nada O'Brien
Nada O’Brien is a Vice President of Product Design & Engineering at Magic Leap, a pioneering company in the field of Augmented Reality (AR) serving the enterprise markets in a variety of applications benefitting from remote assistance and training.
Prior to Magic Leap, she spent 7 years at Meta as Director of Optics leading the teams who developed the optical engines for Quest virtual reality devices, Meta Rayban Stories, and future AR products. Nada started out her career at Viavi Solutions (previously known as JDS Uniphase and Optical Coating Lab., Inc.) in Santa Rosa, CA where she spent 23 years there in various engineering roles supporting the Display, Instrumentation and Telecom businesses.
Nada has a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. She is an inventor on over 20 patents. She currently lives in Washington state and South Florida where she has family and work in both places