Clarkson University has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to undertake planning to support its application to be the next site of the Center for Identification Technology Research (ww.citer.wvu.edu)

CITeR is an Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) dedicated to the research of human biometric recognition and credibility assessment.  The Center currently has two sites - its founding site at West Virginia University and the University of Arizona.

Biomedical Signal Analysis Laboratory (BioSAL)

The Biomedical Signal Analysis Laboratory at Clarkson University focuses on processing and interpretation of signals which arise from the human body. Signals include the electrocardiogram, doppler measurements of blood flow, biometric signals like fingerprints, pulse oximetry, and respiration. These signals are used to predict and detect various cardiovascular diseases (sudden cardiac death, heart failure, sudden infant death) and to perform identification for security applications/health care. Methods involve classic signal processing, statistical techniques, pattern recognition, algorithm development and evaluation, and image processing. Data is collected from cadaver, human, and animal studies and all work involves the analysis of real data (as opposed to simulated). Much of the biometric research is performed as part of CITeR.