Nilay Yalcin

Nilay (pronounced Nil-i) is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Kamu and a Professor of AI at Simon Fraser University. Her expertise is on real-time multimodal interactive AI systems and Cognitive Science, with deep experience building and leading high-performance technical teams.

At Kamu, Nilay is tackling the core infrastructure challenges of AI — enabling secure, privacy-preserving, and distributed data collaboration. With the awesome Kamu team, she is focusing on enabling global collaboration in data on the scale of open-source software revolution!