Our Team

Founded by Luis Dussan and Adrian Kaehler​, D.K.A.I brings together a team of experienced founders and innovators who have proven themselves repeatedly over each of their careers. 

With seven companies founded, four successful exits, and one IPO, this team knows how to build a company.

Individually, each has the skills and experience to found new companies and tackle the hard problems.
Together, they have the skills and the experience to tackle the most exciting problems of our day.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

AUTOMOTIVE, SENSORS, 
PHOTONICS, HOLOGRAPHY, 
HARDWARE

Founder/CEO AEye (led by Kleiner Perkins, Taiwania, General Motors), Board Member

Took AEye public in August of 2021 (Nasdaq:LIDR) 

Defense: Former Chief Technologist for Sensors at Northrop Grumman, previously Lockheed Martin, NASA 

30+ years of Industry Leadership Experience: MSc Computational Quantum Physics, MSc Optics & Photonics

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

AI, SELF-DRIVING, 
MACHINE PERCEPTION, ROBOTICS, SOFTWARE

Founder/CEO Giant.AI (led by Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates), Board Member OpenCV

Self-Driving Vehicle, and Robotics pioneer (DARPA Grand Challenge 1st Place, now in Smithsonian) 

Former Magic Leap VP of Software in Foundational Team (Helped Raise over $1B in Financing)

30+ years of Industry Leadership Experience: Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, former Stanford AI Lab

Chief Operating Officer

OPERATIONS, 
PRODUCT, 
SEMICONDUCTORS

Co-Founder PC Chip Set Division/VLSI Technology (Organized ARM) 

Ran Product, Operations, and R&D at AEye, Part of the team that took it IPO in 2021 

Former Mayfield Fund, ATP Fund and Autotech Ventures 

43+ years of Industry Leadership Experience: B.S. Nuclear & Electrical Engineering

Chief Science Officer

AI, COMPUTER VISION, ALGORITHMS

Founder and Creator of Open Computer Vision (OpenCV) – 18 Million Downloads

  Chairman of the OpenCV Foundation and Director of the Open-Source Vision Foundation 

Serial Entrepreneur, founded 3 companies, 2 exits – Industrial Perception acquired by Google in 2012 

30+ years of Industry Leadership Experience: Stanford Professor and globally recognized leader in AI and CV

Chief Product Officer

AI, IoT, RF ENGINEERING, 
EMBEDDED HARDWARE, 
ENTERPRISE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Pioneered analog cellular and CDMA vehicle connectivity at Hughes-EDS (OnStar predecessor).
  
Led Panasonic’s first connected-car prototype and developed Toyota EnTune/Lexus Enform.
  
Led Vimo development on NVIDIA Jetson, using stereo depth-sensing and OpenCV analytics.

Drove adoption of Hadoop and NiFi at Hortonworks, shaping big data analytics.