Dr. Kenneth G. Furton is Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Executive Director of the Global Forensic and Justice Center, Director of the NSF Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science, Provost Emeritus and Chief Scientific Officer at Florida International University. He is a leading scholar in in dogs and sensors research since 1994 developing one of the first canine trainer and detection team certification programs with independent scientific validation in 1998 which has evaluated more than 2,000 canine teams. He was the founding chair of the Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines (SWGDOG) in 2004 and chaired that group until it transitioned to the Organization for Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) Dogs and Sensor subcommittee for which he was the founding chair in 2014 until 2020. He was the founding chair of the Dog and Sensors Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board (ASB) in 2016. He has supervised the research of more than 140 students and received more than $20 million in grants. He has 32 patents, 734 presentations and 324 peer-reviewed publications with more than 11,000 citations and an h-index of 59. He is member of Phi Beta Kappa, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous high-profile trials. He has researched the detection of humans, drugs, currency, accelerants, explosives, mass storage devices, invasive species and medical conditions. His researching and deployment of COVID detector dogs during the global pandemic reached an audience of over 2 billion worldwide.
