About Our Company

CO-FOUNDER + CEO

Tristan is a social impact entrepreneur and biomedical engineer developing technologies with global implications for health. At Vectech, Tristan leads the company’s business strategy and operations team. Tristan is a Gates Millennium Scholar, David L Boren fellow, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Rochester and Johns Hopkins University.

CO-FOUNDER + ADVISOR

Meg is an epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and consultant. She previously managed over $1.5M in global innovation research funding at Johns Hopkins University. Meg has experience overseeing field testing, pilot studies, and managing collaborations and partnerships. At Vectech, she advises the team in maximizing public health impact. She earned her Masters of Public Health Science at Johns Hopkins University.

CO-FOUNDER + CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Autumn is a humanitarian engineer and entrepreneur with technical expertise in applied optics and computer vision. Autumn is the lead inventor and principal investigator of several of Vectech's core technologies. Autumn oversee a dedicated technical team including in-house software, computer vision, optics, and entomology expertise.

HEAD OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Jewell is a biomedical engineer with several years of experience in global health innovations. They are a former member of the VectorWeb research team at Johns Hopkins University and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama. Jewell is a principal investigator and lead engineer for several of Vectech’s core technologies. They earned their graduate degree in Biomedical Engineering Innovation and Design from Johns Hopkins University.

HEAD OF SOFTWARE

Sanket is the lead software engineer at Vectech, system architect, and critical inventor on all technologies. He is senior developer for our Internet of Things data acquisition products, designing the firmware, backend, and frontend, taking products from prototype to maturity. Sanket also manages deployment of computer vision models. Sanket brings prior industry experience at Hewlett Packard, and earned his Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from UC Berkeley.

ENTOMOLOGIST

Roy Faiman is an expert in vector biology and former NIH research fellow with over a decade of extensive experience in mosquito, sandfly, and tick taxonomy and ecology. Dr. Faiman oversees data quality and validation testing at Vectech. He earned his doctoral degree in medical entomology.

COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER

Sameerah is a computer vision expert with state of the art publications in variational autoencoders, generative models, and attention networks. At Vectech, Samerrah is leading computer vision development to address biases in our dataset through novel applications of generative adversarial networks and other state of the art models.

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Jaykob is a mechanical engineer developing new systems for high quality image acquisition, with supporting subsystems to streamline data acquisition, and minimize labor burden for users. Jaykob earned his Mechanical Engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

George is a firmware developer supporting Vectech’s image acquisition products for gathering lab and field data. George earned his Computer Engineering degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Jun is a full stack developer, optimizing user experience in data interaction and device operation. Jun also develops internal tools for data quality management. Jun received his Computer Science degree from the City College of New York.

COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER

Thomas develops computer vision methods to support data quality to streamline the data pipeline from acquisition to data cleaning to retraining algorithms, optimizing algorithm expansion to cover species in new regions. Thomas received his degree in Physics and Computer Science from Brown University.

MECHATRONICS ENGINEER

Mohan is a mechatronics engineer designing control systems for Vectech's vector identification and segregation products. Mohan has earned his Masters in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from Arizona State University.

COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER

Khushi is a Computer Vision Engineer and Deep learning research enthusiast. At Vectech, she is developing, analyzing, and refining cutting-edge computer vision algorithms for species classification and object detection. Khushi received her Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from Columbia University.

COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER

Vicky has an electrical and biomedical engineering background with experience in image processing and computer vision technique development for medical applications. She has a passion for problem-solving through novel algorithm development. At Vectech, she is currently working on tick detection and identification. Before joining Vectech, she was an associate professor at George Mason University. She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

ENTOMOLOGIST

Hannah is a molecular microbiologist and immunologist with a background in medical entomology and vector biology. She formerly worked in malaria surveillance at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a research fellow at the FDA working on vector-borne disease vaccinology. At Vectech, she primarily works on vector collections and identification, data cleaning, and rearing Vectech's mosquito colonies

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Audrey is an insect enthusiast with a passion for studying arthropod vectors, and past research experience involving ticks. At Vectech, she is currently working on a number of different vector-related projects such as providing information for imaging databases and rearing mosquito colonies for product testing. Audrey has earned her entomology degree from Rutgers University.