About COGNISYN

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Tish Shute (Leichliter)

Founder and Chief Scientist

I'm a 2nd-generation polymath asking: how does perception become intelligence? My father, Prof. C.C.D. Shute (Cambridge's first Professor of Histology, a maths scholar at King's College Cambridge in 1936, and member of the legendary Moral Sciences Club alongside Turing and Wittgenstein), pioneered electron microscopy to trace neural pathways and understand intelligence. COGNISYN is the next chapter of that question.

I bring an intersection of disciplines that rarely converges in one founder: formal mathematics, photonics, hardware design, quantum mechanics, AI, biology, game theory, and dimension reduction from game design. That's why no one else has approached the problem this way.

Early  UK Math Foundation — mathematical physics + programming
1987–91  NPLUS1, Wainscott NY — AI for early eyewear, motion control/VFX; acqui-hired by Associates & Ferren
1991–98  NYU — PhD ABD, Culture, Media & Technology; Asst. Prof. of Communications, Upsala College, NJ
2009–24  AWE — Spatial Computing / XR Pioneer
2011–15  Stupid Fun Club / Syntertainment with Will Wright (Berkeley) — AI for entertainment at the start of the ImageNet revolution; dimension reduction
2015–22  Futurewei/Huawei (Office of the CTO) — led “Age of Light” photonics R&D; eye-tracking patent
2023–  COGNISYN — Founder and Chief Scientist

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Otto Leichliter

Senior Advisor · AI/ML Infrastructure & DevOps

Senior DevOps engineer with deep AI/ML infrastructure experience. Bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production-grade deployment.

Advises on infrastructure architecture, deployment pipelines, and scaling COGNISYN from prototype to production.

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Programs & Recognition

NVIDIA Inception

Member of NVIDIA's startup accelerator program

DGX Cloud Innovation Lab

NVIDIA DGX Cloud Innovation Lab grant recipient — for platform development

Amazon Activate

AWS credits and startup support program

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