VANCE FABER, Senior Advisor

Dr. Faber is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers on diverse fields of mathematics and computer science ranging from foretelling the commercial rise of the Internet (1980) to new methods for fraud detection (1997). He is also the author of four patents in image processing and parallel computing. Dr. Faber received his BA in Physics and Mathematics from Washington University and his MA and Ph.D. in Mathematics (field of research is combinatorial group theory) from the Western Washington University. His career began as an academic at the University of Colorado at Denver. He transitioned into government positions first at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and then at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As chief scientist at LANL, Dr. Faber invented software algorithms for fraud detection, image compression, intrusion detection, and data mining. He has led teams as large as 150 people and been responsible for research budgets of over $50 million. Dr. Faber is currently the Chief Technology Officer for LizardTech, a Seattle based software company that is known for its Multiresolution Seamless Image Database technology.