Donghun Lee is a Senior Director of Machine Learning with 12 years of experience building clinical-grade AI products and founding AI engineering efforts that accelerate research-to-production workflows. Based in New York, he led development of Paige Alba, a multi-modal pathology co-pilot and pan-cancer detection systems whose work contributed to publications in Nature Medicine and collaborations with Microsoft Research. He combines product ownership, AI framework engineering, and people leadership—having founded the ML frameworks team at Paige and shaped org roadmaps and training programs. Earlier he co-founded a profitable hardware startup and cut his teeth at YC-backed Plivo, reflecting a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit and deep technical execution. Known for a thoughtful, creative mindset (a “soul in tension that’s learning to fly”), he now applies that perspective to precision medicine at Tempus AI.
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