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Dr. Kenneth G. Furton is Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Executive Director of the Global Forensic and Justice Center. He is a world-leading scholar in olfaction and dogs and sensors research since 1994. He has supervised the research of more than 160 students and received more than $20 million in grants. He has 34 patents, 761 presentations, 3 books and 341 peer-reviewed publications He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. In 1998 he developed one of the first scientifically validated canine trainer and detection team certification programs in the US that has evaluated over 2000 teams. He was the founding chair of the Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal Detector Guidelines (SWGDOG) in 2004, the founding chair of the Organization for Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) Dogs and Sensor subcommittee in 2014, the founding chair of the Dog and Sensors Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board (ASB) in 2016 and the founding Director of the International Commission on Detector Dogs (ICODD) since 2025. His dogs and sensors research has researched the detection of live and deceased humans, drugs, currency, accelerants, explosives, mass storage devices, invasive species, corrosion and medical conditions. He has testified as an expert witness in dozens of civil and criminal trials.