The engineering part of Augi Lye helped solve a problem for his musician self. How to speed up the aging of wooden violins, which enhances their tone? Augi not only came up with an invention, he formed a successful company that sells devices to all string players. Â Now Augi is using artificial intelligence to help vision processing. The son of immigrant parents, Augi was thought to have a learning disability as a young boy. His fourth-grade teacher told his parents, "I've seen this before. Augi will blossom in his junior year of high school." Spoiler alert: He did.