# Min Lee

> Min Lee is the founder, CEO and president of IPMD, Inc., a San Mateo emotional-AI company born at UC Berkeley in 2016. He led the build of EchoAI (also known as Project M), a human-centered emotional-AI platform that reads facial micro-expressions, tone, and language to classify human emotion with a reported 96% comprehension rate - trained over 130,000 hours by a team of roughly 500 collaborators. In 2025 he was named a Visionary CEO in Emotional AI by Business Worldwide Magazine.

- **Role:** Founder, CEO & President at IPMD, Inc.
- **Organizations:** IPMD, Inc., EchoAI, Otherdots Foundation (Advocate)
- **Nationality:** United States
- **Education:** UC Berkeley (IPMD founded on campus / team drawn primarily from Berkeley students)
- **Known for:** Founded and leads IPMD, Inc., a human-centered emotional-AI company, Architected EchoAI / Project M with a reported 96% emotional comprehension rate and 96% ROC/AUC score, Directed a 130,000+ hour training effort with roughly 500 collaborators, contributing 30,000+ hours himself

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Founded IPMD, Inc. at UC Berkeley; began development of emotional-AI platform
- **2016-2023** — Led emotion mapping and labeling effort - 130,000+ hours, ~500 collaborators, 30,000+ hours personally contributed
- **2023** — Project M / emotion recognition AI unveiled, reported ~96% accuracy rivaling major providers; Seed funding round
- **2025** — EchoAI launched; named Visionary CEO in Emotional AI by Business Worldwide Magazine (Sept 30, 2025); recognized as Google Technology Build Partner

## Achievements

- Founded and leads IPMD, Inc., a human-centered emotional-AI company
- Architected EchoAI / Project M with a reported 96% emotional comprehension rate and 96% ROC/AUC score
- Directed a 130,000+ hour training effort with roughly 500 collaborators, contributing 30,000+ hours himself
- Named 2025 Visionary CEO in Emotional AI & Human-Centered Healthcare Innovation by Business Worldwide Magazine
- Recognized as a Google Technology Build Partner
- Selected as an Advocate within the Otherdots Foundation network

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Named Visionary CEO in Emotional AI & Human-Centered Healthcare Innovation by Business Worldwide Magazine (Sept 30, 2025)
- **2025-01** — EchoAI platform launched at echoai.ipmdinc.com; IPMD recognized as a Google Technology Build Partner

## Links

- Website: https://ipmdinc.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/minlee1120
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ipmd_m
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElvlFgIm5s
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MprojectAI

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Last updated: 2026-06-22