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Daniel D. Lee

Korean-American robotics and AI researcher who served as Executive Vice President of Samsung Research and Head of Global AI Centers at Samsung Electronics from 2018 to 2023, founding and leading the Samsung AI Center in New York City with a focus on robotics. He was previously the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directed the GRASP Lab—a $13M research center pioneering autonomous vehicles, self-configuring humanoids, and robot swarms—from 2001 until departing for Samsung in 2018.

He earned a PhD in Physics from MIT (1995) and an AB summa cum laude in Physics from Harvard (1990), and is an IEEE Fellow and AAAI Fellow. He is now the Tisch University Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech.

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    EVP & Head of NY AI Center

    Samsung's global AI research division within [Samsung Research Robotics](/companies/samsung-research-robotics), operating a network of AI Centers across Seoul,

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  1. https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-opens-a-new-ai-center-in-new-york-city
  2. https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/people/daniel-lee/
  3. https://www.kias.re.kr/kias/people/faculty/viewMember.do?memberId=11039
  4. https://www.ece.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/daniel-dongyuel-lee

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