The unique technology forming the foundation for SensGard's products is the creation of Dr. Jozef J. Zwislocki. During his long and storied career, Dr. Zwislocki has become a world renowned leader in the field of auditory research.

Dr. Zwislocki was born in Poland and studied engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Switzerland. He served as Research Fellow in the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University for six years until becoming a research associate professor of audiology at Syracuse University in 1957. Shortly thereafter at Syracuse, he created the Bioacoustics Laboratory in the School of Education and served as its Director. Dr. Zwislocki was largely responsible for the transfer of the laboratory to the College of Engineering in 1963 which was later renamed the Laboratory of Sensory Communication. In 1973, he created the Institute for Sensory Research dedicated to multidisciplinary research on hearing, vision and touch. Dr. Zwislocki served as director of the institute for 12 years.

Through the 1980s Dr. Zwislocki started the first undergraduate program in Bioengineering which eventually became the Department of Bioengineering in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering at Syracuse University. Dr. Zwislocki retired from teaching in 1992 but continues to conduct research at the Institute for Sensory Research.

In 1990, Dr. Zwislocki was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences USA in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership in the academy is considered the highest distinction for a scientist or engineer. The academy is comprised of nearly 2,000 members and 300 foreign associates, of whom more than 180 have won Nobel Prizes. He was elected a Foreign Associate of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1997. Among his many other honors is the Acoustical Society of America's first Bekesy Medal in 1985 for landmark contributions in auditory science.

Dr. Zwislocki's basic research has led to several medical and technical applications. Three methods of diagnostic hearing testing are in general clinical use throughout the developed world and one instrument for calibration of hearing aid ear phones has become a national standard. Dr. Zwislocki holds numerous patents related to hearing and hearing loss prevention.

The author of over 200 scientific publications, his most recent is Auditory Sound Transmission: An Autobiographical Perspective (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002) which describes in terms of applied physics sound transmission in the ear from the ambient air to the sensory cells in the cochlea, the auditory part of the inner ear Sample text.