About Our Company

Vectech is a public benefit corporation based in Baltimore, MD building solutions that support pest control organizations in their mission to end vector-borne diseases, agriculture loss, and economic loss caused by Pests.

Meet the Team

Tristan Ford, MSE

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.
Meg Glancey, MSPH

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.
Autumn Goodwin, MSE

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. They oversee a dedicated technical team including in-house software, computer vision, optics, and entomology expertise.
Jewell Brey, MSE

HEAD OF R+D
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.
Sanket Padmanabhan

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.
Roy Faiman, PhD

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 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sameerah Talafha, PhD

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.
Jaykob Cave-Stevens

R+D 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.
George Constantine

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.
Jun Wu

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.
Thomas Jenkins

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.
Jamal Al

FULL STACK DEVELOPER
Jamal is a Full Stack Developer that works on Vectech’s web dashboard, database, and integration with IoT devices. Jamal is an experienced Full Stack Developer with a comprehensive understanding of programming languages and utilities. Jamal received his Computer Science degree from San Antonio College.
Mohan Pushadapu

MEDATRONICS 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.
Khushi Anil Gupta

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.
Vicky Ikonomidou, PhD

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.

Open Positions

We are always looking for new talent.

CULTURE STATEMENT

Vectech is committed to providing the resources for our staff to be successful inside and outside of work. This includes traditional benefits like fully paid health, dental, and vision insurance, and professional development with our growing technical team. Work schedules are flexible, with remote or office based work depending on preference, and we will set you up with a Wifi credit, company computer, and other home office resources as needed. Through our coaching/check-in model borrowed from local non-profits in Baltimore, we support employee driven professional development. As a young company with founders dedicated to building a more inclusive workplace, we aim to make Vectech a place where you can grow, advance, and become a leader on our team.