Summary
Eugene Lee is a postdoctoral researcher and founder with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer vision and vision-language reasoning, currently advancing AI research at the University of Cincinnati. He earned a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and has blended academic rigor with hands-on hardware work, including BioFPGA development during his prior postdoc. Eugene has entrepreneurial chops—launching hyperlocal discovery platform Outvirt and founding Paidge—demonstrating a knack for turning research insights into user-facing products. Comfortable across research, systems, and embedded domains, he bridges deep learning models with practical deployment constraints. Based in Cincinnati but with international research roots, he pairs experimental curiosity (“Live. Code. Hack.”) with a pragmatic focus on building reproducible, application-ready AI. An uncommon aspect of his profile is the combination of FPGA-based bioinspired hardware experience alongside vision-language modeling expertise.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Chiao Tung University