Thiri Shwesin Aung | Founder, CEO and director
NYXIUM LTD

Thiri Shwesin Aung is a deep-tech founder and academic working at the intersection of AI, energy, and physical infrastructure. Her work sits at the crossroads of research, entrepreneurship, and real-world deployment. Moving from academia into company building, Thiri founded and exited Nyxion, a cloud-based platform for managing impact-focused investments and funding portfolios. She is now the founder of Nyxium, an infrastructure intelligence platform supporting energy, data centres, mining, and manufacturing, designed to translate complex systems constraints into actionable decisions. Thiri’s work challenges the dominant narrative of AI as abstract software, reframing it instead as physical infrastructure with long-term environmental, geopolitical, and social consequences. As a first-generation immigrant and female founder, she brings a nuanced understanding of how power, access, and constraints quietly shape which technologies are built, funded, and deployed. Her work demonstrates that women in deep tech are not exceptions, but essential architects of resilient systems. Thiri’s work centres around a core principle: when technology operates at national or planetary scale, responsibility is not optional and the choices made early will shape outcomes for decades.