About us

How Bayes Began

Bayes Studio began with a proprietary machine-learning and AI architecture built for highest precision and fewest false positives. We later developed Faunus and Helios to bring this intelligence into the physical world.

Today, we combine AI, SaaS, and IoT to improve environmental monitoring and reduce the impact of climate-related disasters.

Three of the Bayes Studio team working in the UBC HATCH workshop: two standing at a bench under a pegboard hung with drone airframes and tools, one seated at a laptop in a Bayes Studio Inc. shirt.
Thomas Bayes in profile beside his theorem, the prior and posterior curves it relates, and the network of a machine-learning model the same arithmetic runs.

The name

Bayes

English · Thomas Bayes, c. 1701–1761

Named after Thomas Bayes, whose answer to uncertainty was simple: revise what you believe in proportion to the evidence, the arithmetic beneath modern machine learning and AI.

For us, Bayes is more than a name; it is a way of thinking.

2021Founded in Vancouver
100,000+Hectares monitored to date
12+Research and funding partners

Mission

Mitigate the impact of climate-related disasters

Our purpose is to give people the time to make a difference. We turn complex signals into clear, real-time understanding, helping communities and industries recognize risks earlier and act with confidence. Through trustworthy intelligence, we help protect the people, environments, and essential operations our future depends on.

Meet our

Executive team

Engineering, research and operations, based at UBC HATCH in Vancouver.

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Hossein Rahimi

Chief Executive Officer

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Maryam Parizi

COO & Business Development

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Amir Farahani

Lead Software Engineer

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Mo Zak

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Advisors

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Francis Steiner

Advisor

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Dr. Ahmad Mohammadpanah

Advisor

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J.D. Chang Han

Advisor

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Hassan Pardawalla

Advisor

We are hiring across engineering and field operations

Vancouver and remote.

Supported by

Funders, research partners and the platform we build on

The programs that fund the work, the accelerators and tech partners that opened doors.

Funded by

Government of Canada
NRC IRAP
ECO Canada
Accelerate IP
Scale AI
Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace

Programs and accelerators

UBC HATCH Venture Builder
She’s Next, empowered by Visa
MaRS Discovery District
Foresight Canada
ventureLAB
BC Tech Association
WeBC
Alacrity Canada
Export Navigator

Research partners

The University of British Columbia
University of California, Riverside
Northeastern University
University of Manitoba
University Canada West
Arizona State University

Tech partners

Google Cloud

Next step

Have a project in mind?

Tell us what you are monitoring and what you need a detection system to do. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.