J. Hunter Downs III, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer, Owner

Ph.D. Medical Physics (1994)
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

B.S. Computer Science (1987)
University of Texas at San Antonio

Dr. Hunter Downs has over fifteen years of experience in analysis and acquisition of images both in the medical and reconnaissance domains. He has been the principal investigator on over twenty different awards (totaling more than $6M) for projects on topics including telerobotic surgical mentoring, functional imaging, intelligent algorithms for fatigue prediction, geospatial reasoning, brain machine interface, and augmented cognition.

In addition to being a principal at Archinoetics, Dr. Downs is also Clinical Faculty at the University of Hawaii and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia (Departments of Psychiatric Medicine and Biomedical Engineering). He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, an expert consultant to the U.S. Army's National Ground Intelligence Center, and a peer-reviewer on a number of panels including the U.S. Army Combat Casualty Care Section. He has authored or co-authored over 60 scientific publications, including three book chapters. He has also developed a commercial system for nuclear medicine radioisotope imaging and processing. In 2003 he was awarded the Pacific Business News "Forty under Forty" award for the best business leaders under the age of 40 in Hawaii.