About Us

Our Story

After finishing a master's in Genetic Analysis and working as an Agronomist for NIAB, Jamie began his PhD in Computer Science at the University of York. Working with Prof. Dan Franks and Prof. Katherine Denby, Jamie began his project to apply computer vision to detect disease in cocoa trees. Having successfully completed this project, a new and exciting opportunity presented itself. Combining our team's expertise in agriculture, computer vision and AI, we founded Fairfield Vision with the ambitious aim of developing and deploying HiveSight, a contribution to a sustainable future.

Meet the Team

Jamie Sykes

Jamie Sykes

CEO
Chief AI Whisperer, Biologist and Conservationist

PhD. in Computer Science, 20+ years in agriculture, Agronomist with NIAB, MSc. in Quantitative Genetics and BSc. in Conservation Biology

Danny Roberts

Danny Roberts

Embedded Systems Engineer in Computer Vision
Rocket Scientist... no really!

Graduate First class honours from University of York in Computer Science MEng

Rob Byrnes

Rob Byrnes

CTO
IoT Tinkerer, Cloud Wrangler, Sustainability Included

BSc with first class honours in Rural Resource Management. 10+ years in embedded development, IoT and cloud engineering

Prof. Dan Franks

Prof. Dan Franks

Adviser
Resident Machine Learning and Data Analysis Guru

Full professor at the University of York, CEO of Causa, 20+ years R&D in AI/ML, >£6m in grants and Published in Science, Nature, PNAS

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