Vance Faber (born December 1, 1944, in Buffalo, New York) is a mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics, applied linear algebra and image processing.
He spent parts of 3 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder on a NASA postdoctoral fellowship, where he wrote a second thesis on the numerical solution of the Shallow Water Equations under the direction of numerical analyst Paul Swarztrauber.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he was on the staff of the Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
From 1998 to 2003 Faber was CTO and Head of Research for three different small companies building imaging software: LizardTech, Mapping Science and Cytoprint.
Faber and his co-author Thomas A. Manteuffel won this prize for their 1984 paper, in which they gave conditions for the existence of such a method and showed that, in general, there can be no such method.