Joel White, Ph.d

Dr. White has worked on developing all of the details of CogniScent Inc's. core technology since its inception.
He has a BA in Biology from The University of Kansas and a PhD in Biology from Florida State University (1989).
Apart from his work at CogniScent Inc, he is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine: 1996 - present.

Patents

US. Patent # 6,649,416: Intelligent electro-optical sensor array and method for analyte detection. Inventors: John S. Kauer and Joel White. Allowed March,2003.

Intelligent electro-optical nucleic acid-based sensor array and method for detecting volatile compounds in ambient air. Inventors: Joel White and John S. Kauer. Filed November 25, 2002.

Peer Reviewed Papers since 1999

Alkasab, T.K., T.C. Bozza, T.A. Cleland, K.M. Dorries, T.C. Pearce, J. White, and J.S. Kauer (1999). Characterizing complex chemosensors: Information theoretic analysis of olfactory systems. Trends Neurosci. 22:102- 108.

Kauer, J.S. and J. White (2001). Imaging and coding in the olfactory system. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 24:963-979.

Pearce, T., Verschure, P., White, J., Kauer, J. 2001. Stimulus encoding during the early stages of olfactory processing: A modeling study using an artificial olfactory system. Neurocomputing 38-40: 299-306

Alkasab, T.K., J. White, and J.S. Kauer (2002). A computational system for simulating and analyzing arrays of biological and artificial chemical sensors. Chem. Senses 27:261-275.

Articles not Peer Reviewed

White, J. and J.S. Kauer (1999). Odor recognition in an artificial nose by spatio-temporal processing using an olfactory neuronal network. Neurocomputing 26-27:919-924.

Christensen, T.C. and J. White (2000). Representation of olfactory information in the brain. In: T.E. Finger, W.L. Silver, and D. Restrepo (eds), Neurobiology of Taste and Smell, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp201-232.

White, J. and J.S. Kauer (2001). Exploring olfactory population coding using an artificial olfactory system. Prog. Brain. Res. 130:191-203.

White, J., S. Mall, and J.S. Kauer (2002). Using biology to guide development of an artificial olfactory system. In: J. Ayers, J. Davis, and A. Rudolph (eds), Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp97-113.

Kauer, J.S. and J. White (2003). Representation of odor information in the olfactory system: from biology to an artificial nose. In: F.G. Barth, J.A.C. Humphrey, and T.W. Secomb (eds), Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Quinn, R.D., Kauer, J.S., Willis, M.A., Ritzmann, R.E., Young, D., White, J. 2004. A biologically inspired system for demining, UXO site remediation, and national security missions. MINWARA meeting.

White, J., Wagonner, L.P., Kauer, J.S. 2004. Explosives and landmine detection using an artificial olfactory system. SPIE