AAASE Entrepreneurship Event -- Embodied AI: The Final Step

Amir Husain is a serial entrepreneur, AI technologist and author based in Austin. He is a recipient of Austin’s Top Entrepreneur award and is in UT’s College of Natural Sciences Hall of Honor, as well as Austin’s 40 Under 40. His ventures have made CNBC’s Fastest-Growing Companies list and the World Economic Forum’s Unicorns community.

At UT, Husain serves on the President’s Austin Innovation Board and the advisory board of the Department of Computer Science.

Husain founded SparkCognition and the defense technology company SGS (now Avathon Government). Under his leadership, SparkCognition (now Avathon) achieved a $1.4 billion valuation. Husain led the firm until 2023 and remains on its board of directors. He also was founder, CEO and board director of SkyGrid, a joint venture with Boeing.

He currently serves as chairman of WorldQuant Foundry, a venture incubator; SpecFive, a mesh networking company; Argon, a humanoid robotics company focused on manufacturing applications; and Navigate, a decentralized data platform.

Husain has been awarded over 30 patents in AI and distributed systems. He has served on NATO’s Innovation Advisory Board, and his work has been featured in publications such as Fortune, Forbes and Proceedings from the U.S. Naval Institute.