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Talent on the Mission

John Albritton

Founder & Principal Engineer

John founded Velox Research with twenty years in the industry behind him, to bring sensor design, advanced-technologies intelligence, and hypersonics expertise to the intelligence community and the Department of War. Before Velox, he was a Principal Systems Engineer working in hypersonics and digital signal processing.

Over those twenty years he has moved from conceptual design and MATLAB algorithm development through data analysis and systems engineering for the IC, DARPA, DoW and NASA, leading work on EO/IR systems, requirements for autonomous platforms, and threat-system analysis of high-speed cruise missiles and projectiles, across aero and sensor systems (IR, RF and acoustic) for technical collections and missile defense.

Ron Knobler

Senior Technical Advisor

Ron advises Velox on the design and evaluation of unattended ground sensor (UGS) systems for the U.S. government, helping prepare that class of system for IC and DoW missions and supporting those missions in the field.

He previously ran the engineering department at a company that built UGS systems and custom embedded devices for the U.S. government, where he set the R&D direction and product portfolio, led business development and technical recruiting, mentored the program managers and engineers, and ran some of the hardest projects himself.

Publications: Google Scholar profile ↗

Salman Salman

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Salman leads Velox's AI and machine-learning work: models that run at the edge, on the embedded and low-power hardware Velox builds, in places where a connection back to a data center cannot be assumed. His background is in embedded systems, in virtualized flight computers that let spacecraft software be tested and defended on the ground, and in security for operational technology, with earlier work at The Aerospace Corporation, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Department of Homeland Security.