Gilwoo Lee
Founder & CEO at Zordi
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGilwoo Lee is a founder and CEO based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building robotics and AI systems that bridge cutting-edge research and productization. He earned advanced robotics and AI training at MIT, CMU, and the University of Washington, where his PhD work produced publications, large datasets, an open-source robotics library (AIKIDO), and an IROS Best Paper finalist. Prior roles include developing large-scale motion-capture and gesture-generation datasets at Facebook Reality Labs and co-founding an NLP news-summary startup that secured seed funding and government support. His expertise spans mobile manipulation, reinforcement and imitation learning, sim2real transfer, and practical deployment—an uncommon blend of deep academic contributions and hands-on startup leadership. He often focuses on building data assets and open tools that accelerate reproducible research and real-world robot capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of WashingtonMEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS Robotics , MS Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (57)
robotics10
robot-control10
kinematics10
reinforcement-learning10
dynamics10
perception10
pybullet10
motion-planning10
ros10
optimization10
artificial-intelligence9
python8
ada7
urdf6
yarp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gilwoolee/brl_gym
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:291 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
gilwoolee/gilwoolee.github.io
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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