Dr. Jayfus T. Doswell

Dr. Jayfus Tucker Doswell earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Oberlin College with degrees in Cognitive Neuro-Psychology and Computer Science; a Masters degree in Systems and Computer Science from Howard University; and a Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University.  His 2005 defended Ph.D. research, “Building The Virtual Instructor: An Architecture For Developing Pedagogical Embodied Conversational Agents For Mixed Reality Environments”, defined the world’s 1st detailed software system platform for building artificially intelligent virtual instructors with capabilities to autonomously instruct humans in mixed reality (i.e., virtual reality, augmented reality, real-world) environment.

Dr. Doswell is also the founder, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Juxtopia, LLC, (www.juxtopia.com) a privately held for-profit biomedical and information technology company with a mission for improving human performance®. Prior to starting Juxtopia, Dr. Doswell lead several commercial engineering teams at fortune 500 companies ranging from Lockheed Martin and SAIC to BearingPoint.  Dr. Doswell has also successfully lead Juxtopia to secure research and development funding for the development of various Juxtopia® wearable technology products that improve human performance primarily in improving human cognition.

Dr. Doswell created the Juxtopia® Context-Aware Mobile Mixed Reality Assistive Device (CAMMRAD); an augmented reality system platform for improving human cognition in challenging environments.

Dr. Doswell also volunteers his time to mentor and coach students, from underserved and disadvantaged populations to gain workforce skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).  Through The Juxtopia Group, Dr. has entered his student teams to compete in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE, Global Learning X PRIZE, and the IBM Watson AI X PRIZE.

Dr. Doswell sits on several not for profit boards and is an active member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT) Section; American Telemedicine Association (ATA); Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE).