• CEO of Sapien Semiconductor
    Lee Myung- hee

    IBM and Samsung Veteran, UNIST Professor Founded Micro-LED Firm

    Last Updated on Sep 24, 2025

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Lee Myung-hee is the CEO of Sapien Semiconductor.

She aims to surpass Taiwan’s Novatek and establish the company as the global leader in the Micro LED DDIC field.

She was born on January 21, 1962.

She graduated in electronic engineering from Hanyang University, earned a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Arizona State University in the United States, and received a Ph.D. in electronic and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

She began her career as an engineer at Doosan Computer.

She later moved to the United States, working as an engineer at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Lab, and then gained further experience as Worldwide IC·EE R&D Integration Manager at Agilent Technologies.

She joined Samsung Electronics, where she served as head (research fellow) of the System LSI Mobile DDI Development Team, before moving to Hyundai Autron as head of the Automotive Semiconductor R&D Center.

After serving as an industry-academic cooperation professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), she founded Sapien Semiconductor in August 2017.

Sapien Semiconductor is a fabless company specializing in display driver integrated circuits (DDI). It has independently developed core Micro and Mini LED display technologies and holds both domestic and international patents.

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