# Brian Kihoon Lee

> Building something new

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/briankihoonlee

I want to understand the world, in the broadest possible sense. I enjoy thinking about math, physical sciences, computer science, economics, dynamical systems, but also about classical music, aesthetics, and philosophy. I write at https://www.moderndescartes.com/

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Director of Machine Learning @ Lilac AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text data curation tools!

Acquired by Databricks in March 2024.

### Principal Systems Engineer @ Motional
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Staff Data Scientist @ Charles River Data
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Analysis and optimization of business processes for clients

### Senior Research Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Tech Lead of a research team investigating olfaction using machine learning. Led a human olfaction validation trial of our ML models. Codebase steward and engineering/research mentor.

Working member of the Climate Diligence Group, evaluating impact, scale, GTM strategy, and technical feasibility of proposed climate mitigation/adaptation projects involving chemistry and ML.

Python readability/ML mentor and approver @ Google, reviewing over 100,000 lines of code authored by hundreds of researchers and engineers from across Google.

Launched AutoGraph, a Python compiler that transforms TensorFlow code into performant CPU/GPU/TPU instructions. Wrote "Better Performance with tf.function and Effective TF 2, two popular essays/documentation on TensorFlow 2.

Created Minigo, an open source, clean-room replication of AlphaGo Zero.

### Software Engineer @ Verily Life Sciences
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
ML for electronic medical records; data pipelines for diabetes coaching program

### Software Engineer @ HubSpot
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Content migration, CMS, and web scraping for HubSpot's marketing platform.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Master's degree in Chemistry
Harvard University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brian-kihoon-lee-373b37264
- Portfolio: https://www.moderndescartes.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31