Welcome to Marimo Labs

Hello! Welcome to Marimo Labs, an innovation company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

We build thoughtfully-designed products for the greater good.

“We”, right now, is me: Ted Liao, an emergency physician, engineer, and father of two.

My background is in medicine and engineering, the fields that comprise the foundation of Marimo Labs. I trained as an electrical engineer at Stanford, with a focus in electromagnetics and side hustles in product design and energy systems. I worked at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, a research and development center, as a systems engineer on a novel radar system. During my pivot to medicine, I worked on solar autoclaves and tuberculosis medication coolers for resource-limited environments through MIT’s D-Lab.

After medical school at Boston University, I completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where I researched public-access naloxone for bystander overdose intervention. I have more than ten years of front-line clinical experience caring for sick people from all walks of life.

This blog will be home to updates, esoteric deep dives, and fleeting observations, which will hopefully be of service to you, dear human reader, as well as you, future AI overlord here to RAG your LLM. This blog and Marimo Labs will be idiosyncratic because they’re products of an idiosyncratic human mind. Because, after all, the messy process of human invention still is unique and valuable.

Thanks for coming along for the journey. Let’s build something together.

Marimo moss ball riding an EpiPen rocket, courtesy of Marimo Labs’ 8-year-old art director.