Where does Frank Lee work?

Frank Lee is Founder of Illume Labs.

Where did Frank Lee go to school?

Frank Lee studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Sylvania Northview High School (High School Diploma).

Frank Lee

Founder

Founder at Illume Labs

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

FoundedIllume Labs · YC

Find your path to Frank

111 people in our graph share verified history with Frank — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Quentin ClarkunlockedFrank: together at Windsurf (2025)

×4Frank: together at Stony Brook University

×2Frank: together at Windsurf

×5Frank: together at Nasdaq

About

Frank Lee studied computer science and mathematics at MIT, where he conducted research in Pulkit Agrawal's lab. He worked as a software engineer at Windsurf before founding Illume Labs.

Founder at Illume Labs YC S26

Intro paths

Frank went through Y Combinator (Summer 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Ankit Gupta, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Illume Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Frank can intro founders to Illume Labs's investors below.

Illume Labs's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2026

Co-founders at Illume Labs

Pari LatawaFounder

Experience

WindsurfSoftware Engineer Intern2025
NasdaqSoftware Engineer Intern2024
MIT Chemical Engineering (ChemE)Undergraduate Researcher2023
Stony Brook UniversityResearcher2021Suffolk County, New York, United States
The University of ToledoResearcher2020 — 2021Toledo, Ohio, United States

Frequently asked questions

Who is Frank Lee?: Frank Lee studied computer science and mathematics at MIT, where he conducted research in Pulkit Agrawal's lab. He worked as a software engineer at Windsurf before founding Illume Labs.
Where does Frank Lee work?: Frank Lee is Founder of Illume Labs.
What companies did Frank Lee found?: Frank Lee founded Illume Labs.
Where did Frank Lee go to school?: Frank Lee studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science); Sylvania Northview High School (High School Diploma).

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