Yousif Astarabadi

Founder/cto at OASIS

Yousif Astarabadi is an accomplished technology entrepreneur and engineer with extensive experience in founding and leading innovative companies. Currently serving as Founder and CTO at TalkTastic, Yousif previously established OASIS, an AI research lab, and NotEvil, a pioneer in deepfake detection technology. Additional roles include serving as CEO and Founder of AquaCloud Inc., which developed sensor networks for water utilities, and advising at Highway1, a prominent hardware accelerator. Earlier career highlights include engineering roles at Western Digital and ownership of KiwiTek Inc., a professional services firm. Yousif is pursuing a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Penn State University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fullerton.

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OASIS

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OASIS is a deep technology company focused on real-time photorealistic video communication powered by generative AI. We are building the universal human communication platform, delivered as a suite of zero marginal cost AI-native software to make human communication effortless that includes a patented, peer-to-peer video & VR chat protocol(with integrated biometrics) that uses 100x less bandwidth than Zoom. Our proprietary AI avatar technology uses ~10,000x less compute than state-of-the-art generative AI models and is able to render photorealistic humans in real-time on consumer smartphones and laptops.