Jason Kinser

Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

Contact:

Jason M. Kinser

703 993 3785

jkinser@gmu.edu

CV

HISTORY

April 1997 – present:  Associate Professor George Mason University..

 

Developed algorithms for DNA information processing, trace assembly, base calling, channel selectivity, and optical computing of DNA information.

Developed Pulse Image Processing.  This field uses visual cortex models to uniquely perform a variety of image processing functions.

Developed theories concerning higher order information within a database.  Created methods to extract his order and determine the role of all members of the database.

Developed high-volume image database search engines.

Director of the Tongchivit Scholarship Committee.

Director and member of first level tenure committees.

 

 

July 1994 - March 1997 : Associate Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Alabama A & M University, Normal AL.

 

             Lead Scientist of the Evolutionary Computing Group in the Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology, and Remote Sensing.

Founding member of the Center for Applied Optical Sciences.  Founding member of the Center for the Foundation of Information Noting and Discriminating.   Participating scientist in the Metacenter Regional Alliance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Responsible for proposing and administering research contracts.  Research programs include the creation of Object Isolation, the development of the color Pulse-Coupled Neural Network, creation of the Fast Analog Associative Memory, development of the theory of hidden neuron justification, and bridge stress analysis.

Responsible for directing graduate students in their research programs.

 

 

Sept. 1988 - June 1994: Principal Technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, AL.

 

Responsible for the design of neural network and filter algorithms suitable for optical computer implementation.

Responsible for the discrimination and classification technologies.  Application of filter and neural network paradigms to the following problems: speech recognition, DNA sequencing, target identification, target tracking, data fusion, fingerprint identification, web inspection, threat assessment, metal grain size classification, detection of zirconium sponge flaws, face recognition, and lung scans.

 

 

May 1987 - May 1989, Graduate Student, University of Alabama in Huntsville

             Advisor: Dr. H. John Caulfield

             Member of the research team that designed the first all-optical massively-parallel neural network optical computer.  Major contribution was the development of theory to allow uniform threshold operations suitable for massively-parallel bipolar discrimination.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

D.Sc. in Optics and Electro-Optical Systems, South Eastern Inst. of Tech., Dec. 1994

 

M.S. in Physics, Univ. Al. in Huntsville, May 1987

 

B.A. in Physics, William Jewell College, May 1985

 

 

EXTERNAL EXAMINER APPOINTMENTS

 

University of Mauritius, June 2003-04, Computational Sciences.

 

 

GUEST APPOINTMENTS

 

2006: Visiting Scientist – Korea University

 

August 1996 : Visiting Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Responsible for implementation of the Pulse-Coupled Neural Net and other algorithms on a SIMD parallel computing system (CNAPs).

 

 

CONSULTANCIES

 

2004-2005: Consultant, The Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.

 

Summer 2005: Consultant, Advancis, Pharmaceutical Corp., Germantown, MD.

 

Winter 2000: Consultant, Forensic Science Service, Birmingham, UK.

Responsible for the development of data transfer software

 

Summer 1999: Consultant for Spectrumedix Corp.

Developed algorithms for lane selection and information cleansing.

 

Fall 1999 – present: Consultant Comptic Inc.

Designed an optical 3D correlator and analyzed learning functions.

Designed algorithms for the identification of fruit.

 

 

Summer 1995 - Winter 1997 : Consultant for Mevatec Corporation in Huntsville, AL

Responsible for the creation of a cancer cell detection and classification system for pap smears in a Phase I SBIR.  Responsible for creation of algorithms to detect koilocytic cells.