Hossein Rahnama is founder and CEO of Flybits, a context-as-a-service company with offices in Toronto and Palo Alto. His research explores artificial intelligence, mobile human-computer interaction, and the effective design of contextual services. Rahnama has received 10 patents in ubiquitous computing. He is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing, was a council member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and is a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.