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Berkeley professor, h-index 78 researcher, and co-founder of BDTI since 1991
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 91th percentile
- Deep research credibility with an h-index of 78 and 35,491 citations (OpenAlex).
- Wikidata entity exists for Edward Lee, confirming public notability.
- Identified researcher on OpenAlex with 662 published works.
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Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current co-founder and Scientific Advisor of BDTI, a company he co-founded in 1991.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Deep research credibility with an h-index of 78 and 35,491 citations (OpenAlex).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with 662 published works.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)BDTI was co-founded with other founders, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)GitHub account @edwardlee identified as belonging to Edward Lee.
- 50%Probability of being accurate (50%)GitHub account @edwardlee has been active for approximately 12 years (created 2014).
- 40%Probability of being accurate (40%)Stack Overflow account identified for Edward Lee with 1,178 reputation.
- 35%Probability of being accurate (35%)Wikidata entity exists for Edward Lee, confirming public notability.
Investor score
- 45%Probability of being accurate (45%)Named related person on a SEC Form D exempt-offering filing by HESTIA INVESTMENTS INC, indicating a fund manager or GP role.
What you likely need
You're a rare breed — a deeply credentialed academic founder with 35,000+ citations and a 30-year operating company, now at an inflection point where your CPS and edge-AI research could anchor a new commercial venture or structured fund. The Festival events most valuable to you are small, high-trust rooms where your technical authority opens doors: dinners with IoT/edge-AI investors who respect deep research pedigree, roundtables with Berkeley SkyDeck and a16z bio/infra founders, and tactical sessions on translating Ptolemy-era open-source work into developer community traction. You'll get the most signal from gatherings that bridge the academic-to-commercial gap — where your h-index 78 is a credential, not a curiosity.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner with 8–10 seed and Series A investors actively writing checks into edge-AI and IoT infrastructure (think Eclipse Ventures, Lux Capital, Root Ventures) to pressure-test a BDTI spinout thesis and map your CPS research to their current deal flow
- introsA Berkeley SkyDeck founder roundtable pairing you with 4–5 current SkyDeck cohort companies in embedded systems and IoT where you can explore co-founding or lead-mentor roles that formalize your existing advisory pattern
- tacticalA tactical working session with 6 developer-community builders and open-source maintainers (from projects like TensorFlow Lite, Zephyr RTOS, and Apache TVM) to map a concrete GitHub activation plan for Ptolemy Project tooling that converts academic users into commercial contributors
- fundraisingA dinner with 6 structured angel-to-seed fund operators — including scouts and emerging managers from Spearhead and On Deck Angels — to model how your existing HESTIA INVESTMENTS and Spensa Technologies advisory stakes could anchor a formal $3–5M rolling fund
- positioningA closed roundtable with technical founders and ML infrastructure leads at companies deploying AI at the edge (Hailo, Syntiant, Latent AI) to sharpen the practitioner narrative connecting Ptolemy's actor-model research to today's edge-ML deployment challenges — raw material for your flagship thought leadership piece
- introsA dinner with 6 academic founders who successfully crossed over — including researchers-turned-founders from Stanford HAI, MIT CSAIL, and CMU SEI spinouts — to exchange playbooks on IP licensing, lab-to-market timing, and maintaining research credibility while fundraising
- tacticalA tactical workshop with 4–5 technical educators who've built high-revenue practitioner courses (think fast.ai, DeepLearning.AI alumni, O'Reilly authors) to scope whether your CPS design expertise lands better as a Maven cohort course, a Substack, or a practitioner-focused book with an O'Reilly or MIT Press deal
- positioningA positioning dinner with BD and product leads from Arm, Renesas, and NXP Semiconductors — companies that actively cite benchmark data in procurement cycles — to validate BDTI's authority narrative in IoT and CPS markets and identify co-marketing or sponsored research angles