Johnny Lee
Founder at LGI Tech, LLC
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Lee is a technical engineering leader and founder with 10+ years of experience building early-stage technologies into products used by tens of millions to a billion users. He specializes in bringing applied research into production—spanning wearable AI, spatial computing, and robotics—having led programs that evolved Tango into ARCore and powered Kinect human-tracking at scale. At Google he founded robotics ML and teleoperation efforts and later directed AI for AR/wearables, initiating collaborations with DeepMind for context-aware agents; he now focuses on AI for wearables from Redmond. A TED speaker and TR35 alumnus, he combines deep academic training (PhD in HCI from Carnegie Mellon) with hands-on inventing—from depth cameras and 3D sensing to production robotic micro-fulfillment. He has a track record of shipping device-level sensing and perception systems that enable novel user experiences and operational automation. Colleagues describe him as someone who thrives at the “first bend” of new technology S-curves, translating early breakthroughs into scalable user value.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Human-Computer Interaction, PhD, Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (11)
d3js9
data-visualization6
react-component5
react5
sequencer4
audio-player4
javascript3
charts3
data-visualizations3
tbd3
react-components2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
generalui/explore-data-visualization-with-D3-public-fork
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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