About us

Abyss Solutions was founded by four scientists and engineers from The University of Sydney in 2014, looking to vastly improve maintenance and equipment observation methods through advanced yet practical technology.

Prior to starting the company, the founders Nasir, Masood, Abraham and Hina were deeply involved in various fields of research including marine robotics, civil and geotechnical engineering, optical sensing, data analysis and economics. With a combined experience spanning diverse fields and working all around the world with leaders in industry and research, they developed a passion for solving real-world issues using groundbreaking technology.

The founders of Abyss strongly believe that the last exploration frontier, the oceans, are a gold mine of challenges that their combined skills, expertise and vision can solve. Before going to the depths of the Mariana trench, Abyss tackled issues closer to home in the form of urban water infrastructure inspection and maintenance. Their revolutionary approach is critical to the sustainability and safety of all cities and towns.

Abyss Solutions has adapted its technology to inspect underwater assets such as dams, reservoirs, canals, bridges and ship hull inspections. Furthermore, Abyss is expanding its patented scanning and analytics processes to above-water critical infrastructure in the energy and renewables sectors, which were previously deemed as highly difficult and commercially inaccessible for automation.

Our Vision

Abyss Solutions vision is to build the intelligence that will drive all unmanned robots of the future.
This intelligence will comprise of perception, planning and intervention capabilities rendering these systems completely autonomous. Tomorrow’s computers will be independent systems, they will have their own sensors and thinking, and just like today’s computers say intel inside, they will say Abyss inside!

Co-Founders

DR. NASIR AHSAN

CO-FOUNDER

HINA AHSAN

CO-FOUNDER

ABRAHAM KAZZAZ

CO-FOUNDER

MASOOD NAQSHBANDI

CO-FOUNDER

BOARD

IAN DAVIS

CHAIRMAN

MARCUS MAICHIN

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ELICIA MCDONALD

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

HATEM SOLIMAN

Independent Non-Executive Director

C-SUITE

DR. SUCHET BARGOTI

CTO

LEE JACK

HEAD OF HR

SHEHRYAR LODHI

VP SALES AND MARKETING

JOSE SILVA

CFO

Deep sea vision with Lantern Eye

Lantern Eye has successfully conducted precision inspections at the depth of 2000 metres. Our exceptional engineers Marco Castillo and Jordan Jolly were using the imaging system to inspect mooring chains for a large multinational on board a product facility in the...

Abyss Inshore – Case Study

Shannon Creek Dam The 30,000 megalitre Shannon Creek Dam is located west of Coutts Crossing and 18 kilometres south of Grafton on the NSW north coast. It is an off-river storage reservoir that supplies water to the Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour areas. The dam...

Abyss Extract – Case Study

The Abyss Extract case study was designed to trial and assess Abyss Solutions’ machine learning algorithm, and its ability to reduce the time required to review footage and its potential to automatically identify and code defects. The trial was conducted in two...

Abyss Lantern Eye – Case Study

Mooring chain inspections are costly, tedious, operationally challenging and often result in inconclusive findings with current inspection methods. Here divers or ROVs are deployed subsea and equipped with callipers they take high precision measurements. The error...

Abyss Fabric – Case Study

The Abyss Fabric technology has revolutionised the identification of condition visualisation, fabric maintenance planning and prioritisation, allowing you to work from a predictive maintenance mode, significantly saving in both time and costs. It has proved to reduce...