Mrinal has a decade of automotive design, manufacturing and go-to-market experience. Prior to AEye, he led technical sales and marketing at Innoviz and Sense Photonics, where he created their go-to-market strategy for lidar and led expansion across automotive, smart cities, and off-highway markets. Prior to that, Mrinal designed and validated powertrain & telematics products for passenger vehicles at Continental Automotive. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Chicago.

AEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR™, a perception system that acts as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since its demonstration of its solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and backed by world-renowned investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Taiwania Capital, Hella Ventures, LG Electronics, Subaru-SBI, Aisin, Intel Capital, and Airbus Ventures.