Thiri Shwesin Aung

Thiri Shwesin Aung is the founder of Nyxium, 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 Handrail, 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. She brings a nuanced understanding of how power, access, and constraints shape which technologies are built, funded, and deployed.