Lumai’s Head of Research selected to join the Shott Scale Up Accelerator

Xianxin is an expert in the field of optical computing, with his research at the heart of Lumai’s AI accelerator. He holds a PhD in Physics and is a RCE 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has over ten years of experience in optics and quantum physics and was recently listed in the Photonics 100.

Xianxin will follow in the footsteps of over 175 other technology and engineering startup leaders, who have raised over £1.46 billion in investment since joining the programme, through 12 months of leadership training designed to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses.

To support Lumai’s mission to solve the challenge of how to meet ever-increasing AI datacentre performance demand, Xianxin will have access to a 52-hour growth training programme and a £10,000 grant to cover leadership courses anywhere in the world.

Spun out of the University of Oxford, Lumai is working with industry partners to enable AI deployment at scale using its unique 3D optical technology with the fastest, most energy-efficient AI processor. Its primary goal is to drastically cut both the energy used in datacentres for AI, as well as the cost of processing AI. The company was part of Intel Ignite’s first London cohort and a finalist in the 2023 KPMG UK Tech Innovator Programme.