This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you by Stanford E.Corp.

Welcome Stanford and broader communities to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar here at Stanford University.

ETL, as you all know, is a Stanford seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs, and is presented by STVP,

the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center

and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the

management science and engineering department at Stanford and the director of Alchemist and

accelerator for enterprise startups. Today, we are thrilled to welcome Michelle Lee to ETL.

This is a true full circle moment for Michelle.

She was literally in your seats like less than a decade ago.

Michelle is the CEO and co-founder of Medra,

which is building robots to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

The company enables scientists to automate lab tasks and focus on making groundbreaking

scientific discoveries. Now, Michelle was born and raised in Taiwan and then came to the United

States for high school, which began a pattern in Michelle's life of jumping into new territories and completely excelling.

From high school, she went on to come to Stanford, and she's a cardinal three times over.

She graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

And as an undergrad, threw herself into the robotics club, even though she didn't have any prior experience from high school in robots.

She then goes on to get a master's degree in a completely different discipline at Stanford in mechanical engineering.

And she graduates as a Mayfield fellow in Taubed of High. And then while at Stanford, she also is doing internships at McKinsey, SpaceX, and

Nvidia, and then goes to get a PhD at Stanford in the computer science lab in the mechanical

engineering department as part of the Stanford AI lab.

And literally in computer science, in her PhD program in her first year is the first time

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