Summary
Kisun Lee is a power electronics entrepreneur and technologist with a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and two decades of hands-on experience designing power systems for satellites, CPUs, mobile devices and EVs. As CEO/CTO and co-founder of Lucid Microsystems after senior leadership roles at Samsung, Apple, NXP and ON Semiconductor, he blends deep circuit-level expertise in DC/DC converters and control theory with proven team-building and product-architecture skills. He has repeatedly moved between R&D and executive roles, shipping voltage regulators and system-level power architectures used in consumer and mobile platforms. Based in Pleasanton, California, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery and also codes in DL/ML—an unusual mix that signals both hardware mastery and growing software fluency.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Power Electronics, MS Power Electronics at Seoul National University
Ph. D Power Electronics, Ph. D Power Electronics at Virginia Tech
Korean, English