About Dr. Bistany

Loucinda ‘Cindy’ Bistany is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zeptive, Inc., where she leads the design, development, and commercialization of IoT cloud-connected air quality monitoring platforms. She brings more than 20 years of experience in chemical sensing, detection instrumentation, and product development — spanning markets from homeland security and defense to indoor air quality and public health.

Her passion lies in bringing low-cost, high-performance sensing technology to markets that have historically been underserved. At Zeptive, she developed the ZVD2300 — the company's flagship vape detection platform — and has been instrumental in earning two foundational patents on aerosol detection technology.

Prior to Zeptive, Loucinda’s most recent work was at Bruker Detection Corporation, where she acted as Program Manager for three concurrent government contracts totaling $12 million. These included the DoD's Next Generation Chemical Detector (NGCD), the NGCD Stryker program, and DHS's next-generation trace explosives detector. She also led a machine learning initiative that improved chemical warfare agent detection rates from 90% to 99% while reducing false positives from 1% to 0.1%.