Jean founded Lavoro based on her long-term research on robot intelligence as an Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute and Director of the Bot Intelligence Group (BIG). Her work has earned several best paper awards at ICRA, IROS, and HRI, and has been covered by the New York Times and other media.

Jean strongly believes that innovations should be accessible to ordinary people. Her vision is a world where anyone can easily use robots to get things done. Lowering that barrier is what Lavoro is built to do.

Prior to joining the faculty at CMU, Jean was a commercialization specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, where she converted research prototypes into field-ready systems. She is currently working hands-on with Lavoro's manufacturing and lab automation customers.

Mooyeon co-founded Lavoro because she has witnessed firsthand the gap between what robot technology can do and what actually gets deployed in the real world. Prior to Lavoro, as Chief Medical Officer of Burke Rehabilitation Hospital at Montefiore Health System and a Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she spent years deploying technical innovations in clinical settings and learned exactly where and why they succeed or fail.

Mooyeon leads Lavoro's operations and customer discovery, currently focused on pharmaceutical and clinical lab automation, a sector facing acute labor shortages where Lavoro's rapid deployment model offers immediate value. She brings executive credibility and a deep understanding of user needs to every conversation with customers and partners.