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Michelle Lee

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CEO at Medra
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Michelle Lee is the Founder and CEO of Medra, a company leveraging a Physical AI Scientist platform to revolutionize drug discovery. A Stanford PhD graduate, her background combines robotics research at the Stanford AI Lab and NVIDIA with business strategy experience from McKinsey & Company.

Her passion is centered on applying technology to solve major challenges, with a publicly stated mission to eradicate disease. She is driven to bridge the gap between frontier AI models and tangible R&D to accelerate the development of new therapeutics.

Unique fact: She won the Best Paper Award at the prestigious ICRA 2019 robotics conference for her research on combining vision and touch for robots.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Physical AI
Her company, Medra, is founded on building a "Physical AI Scientist platform" to operate complex lab instruments with human-level dexterity.
AI in Drug Discovery
She frequently discusses how to bridge the gap between powerful AI models and physical R&D to bring better therapeutics to market faster.
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Career

Work history

2-2022
CEO
Medra
4-2018 - 6-2021
Research Assistant
Stanford University
6-2019 - 9-2019
Robotics Research
NVIDIA
9-2015 - 12-2015
Vehicle Engineering Intern
SpaceX
6-2015 - 8-2015
Summer Business Analyst
McKinsey & Company
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Education
2018 - 6-2021
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Stanford University
2015 - 2017
Master's Degree
Stanford University
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