Jeremy Dawson | Co-Director, Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
West Virginia University

Jeremy M. Dawson PhD joined the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Fall of 2015. His background is in microelectronics and nanophotonics, and he has extensive experience in complex, multi-domain system integration and hardware system implementation. As director of the WVU LCSEE Idemia National Security Solutions Biometrics Lab and co-director of the WVU site of the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR; an NSF I/UCRC), his current biometrics research efforts are focused on the creation of large-scale biometrics datasets that can be used to evaluate sensor operation and other human factors, as well as apply novel machine learning algorithms to solve human identification challenges. Dr. Dawson also has extensive experience in micro and nanophotonic sensor platforms used for chem/bio-detection. His research in biosensors led to the identification of a need for new signal processing methodologies for DNA systems, which resulted in the first molecular biometrics project funded through CITeR.