Jay Dawani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Lemurian Labs, where he leads the company’s mission to reinvent AI infrastructure for greater efficiency, accessibility and performance. With a background spanning AI system architecture, hardware-software co-design and performance optimization, Dawani has built AI-powered systems for autonomous vehicles, spaceflight and large-scale model deployment. Before founding Lemurian Labs in 2022, he advised on NASA’s Mars Rover program at Geometric Energy, focusing on vision-based navigation and planetary mapping. A frequent speaker and commentator, Jay is passionate about shaping AI infrastructure to broaden access, accelerate innovation and unlock new frontiers in intelligent computing.