Founded in Houston, Texas, RigSafeLens is driven by a singular conviction: zero preventable construction fatalities is not an idealistic slogan—it is an engineering problem we are solving with computer vision.
In 2023, on an 18-story high-rise build in downtown Houston, a lead ironworker unclipped his harness lanyard while stepping across an unguarded perimeter beam. A safety manager was 4 floors below conducting a scheduled walkthrough. Nobody saw the near-miss until hours later on a passive security tape.
Aryan Mehra, then leading computer vision robotics at NVIDIA, and Dr. Lena Kovacs, an occupational safety PhD from UT Austin, realized the core problem: construction safety had an impossible human bandwidth limitation. One or two safety directors could never physically watch dozens of workers across multiple floors and crane swing paths simultaneously.
They founded RigSafeLens to transform standard jobsite security cameras into continuous, sub-second neural sentinels that never blink, never tire, and never overlook an unclipped harness.
Former Senior ML Engineer at NVIDIA Autonomous Systems. Stanford MS in Computer Vision. Built real-time neural edge inference engines.
PhD in Occupational Safety Engineering, UT Austin. 9 years field experience managing EHS for billion-dollar civil megaprojects.
Former Director of Enterprise Solutions at Procore. 15 years implementing digital jobsite workflows for top ENR 400 general contractors.
PhD in Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon. Former Core Vision team at Apple. Specialist in spatial geofencing and zero-shot object detection.
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