Experience

• Layer · Co-Founder, CTO & CMO

  Layer connects you with verified people who have actually done what you're working toward, so you can get firsthand answers that never get written down online. I lead the technical build and marketing. Layer is in early access.
  2026 - present
• Third Author · Founder

  Impact and change the world with one local professional at a time. A free, student-led nonprofit with a few chapters around the world, connecting teens ages 13 to 18 with local professionals who suggest small community projects, funded by sponsors and donations. We interview professors and professionals at places like NASA Johnson Space Center, the University of Arizona, and Texas A&M AgriLife about the problems in their fields and how teens can start helping; each interview is a 30-minute recorded call posted on our site, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
  Oct 2026 - present
• Sutura Genomics · Co-Founder & CTO

  An AI platform that reconstructs torn, folded, deformed, or partially missing tissue sections for spatial-biology workflows. I built the cross-donor evaluation pipeline and a hybrid alignment system that picks the best method for each dataset, which cut pixel-level alignment error by roughly an order of magnitude in internal benchmarks. Sutura is deployed in four research labs with its first paying customers and five-figure revenue, has a methodology preprint on bioRxiv, and was accepted to Y Combinator Startup School 2026.
  Apr 2026 - present
• Onco Research Scholars · Founder & President

  A student research-mentorship nonprofit and international research incubator with 120+ members across three continents and ten states. We guide students through the full research process, from developing ideas to cold-emailing faculty, and more than 25 members have gone on to research positions at Stanford, Yale, MIT, MD Anderson, Google, and UT.
  Jan 2026 - present
• Instagram (@seangplee) · Content Creator

  Sharing content with 8.7K followers and more than 12M impressions.
  present
• UT MD Anderson Cancer Center · Research Intern

  Computational cancer-genomics research in GI Medical Oncology, studying pSTAT3 signaling and the tumor microenvironment across six gastrointestinal cancer cohorts, with discovery and validation on public cohorts including TCGA and CPTAC. This work led to a first-author abstract in The Oncologist, an ePoster at ESMO Asia 2026, and a first-author manuscript under review at Molecular Oncology. I was sponsored by my MD Anderson professor to attend the ASCO and AACR conferences, and earlier traveled with my mentor to the invitation-only DAVANCO conference in Bermuda.
  Jan 2024 - present
• University of Houston · Researcher

  Working on DRAIN, electrochemical engineering applied to neural interfaces, with Dr. Mim Rahimi, Kaspar J. Willam Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering.
  Oct 2026 - present
• UTHealth Houston · Researcher

  Working on DRAIN with Dr. Oleh Pochynyuk, Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at McGovern Medical School.
  Oct 2026 - present
• Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation · Researcher

  Remote statistical and survival modeling. I presented a first-author poster at the 2026 Annual Conference as its youngest presenter, and I'm returning to present in Utah in March 2027.
  Jan 2026 - present
• European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) · Researcher

  Remote, seasonal research role. Presenting an ePoster (1099eP) at the ESMO Asia Congress in Singapore in December 2026.
  Apr 2026 - present
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Researcher

  Research internship.
  Jan - Jun 2026
• Baylor College of Medicine

  Worked with Dr. Mohamed Nuh, Dr. Monica Hsiang, and Dr. Akhila Madulapalli Reddy, who are co-authors on my first-author biliary tract cancer abstract in The Oncologist.
  Jan - Jun 2026