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.

Our Mission

To support farmers in promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing waste. By integrating AI from individual plants to the national scale we will reduce farmer costs, pesticide use, habitat loss and our carbon footprint.

Our Team

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

Christian Pardillo Laursen
CTO
Lead Software Engineer and Mathmagician

PhD. in Computer Science, MPhil. with distinction from the University of Cambridge and Winner of IET Prize 2020

Danny Roberts
Embedded Systems Engineer in Computer Vision
Rocket Scientist... no really!
Graduate First class honours from University of York in Computer Science MEng
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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