Vance Faber , Ph.D.

Vance Faber, Ph.D., is Cytoprint's Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Faber comes to Cytoprint after several years as a key member of the team that invented, designed and developed a substantial body of technology for LizardTech, including 20 provisional patent applications filed in the last 12 months, with three converted to full applications thus far. He was responsible for creating the concept of "encoded image as a relational data base" which is at the foundation of all LizardTech software including encoders, servers and clients. Prior to his years at LizardTech, Dr. Faber grew the Computer Research Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory from a staff of 30 in 1990 to 150 Researchers and an income of 15 million dollars a year before leaving in 1996. While at Los Alamos he led and actively participated in multiple teams which created and patented pioneering software in genome mapping, image compression and recognition, text and image search engines, bomb detection, fraud detection, distributed and parallel computing, performance modeling and many other application areas. Dr Faber is the author of over 100 published papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and will be an immense asset in developing Cytoprint's technology and applications.