Audrey Lee

Audrey Lee is a fifth-year MD-PhD candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program. She aims to integrate clinical and technological perspectives at the intersection of surgical robotics and machine learning to develop translational technologies that improve surgical practice.

She is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Sciences with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, where she is advised by Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD. Her thesis work is on human-robot interaction in robotic surgery, specializing in how high-autonomy surgical robots and surgeons can effectively collaborate on tasks to ensure safe integration into procedural workflows, expedite patient care, and enable generalization to new patient anatomies. She is also affiliated with the Mount Sinai BioDesign Program of the Department of Neurosurgery, a medical technology incubator and rapid prototyping center with a history of translational innovation in medical device innovation and artificial intelligence.

Audrey graduated from Columbia University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. As an undergraduate researcher, she developed drug-delivery implants for arterial disease and fabrication methods for soft microrobots. She was also a research intern for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where she created 3D-printed modules for real-time microscopic imaging of living organisms during microgravity simulation.

She is from Queens, New York. She enjoys cycling, hiking, crocheting, and gardening in her free time.