Congrats to Haiyu Wu and Kağan Ozturk!
Haiyu Wu completed his final defense for his PhD, and is headed to Altos Labs in San Diego!
And on the same day, Kağan Ozturk completed his PhD candidacy exam!
Watch for great things in the future from each of them.

ScholarGPS 2024 “Highly-Ranked Scholar – Lifetime”.

ScholarGPS 2024 rankings are out (scholargps.com). Using numbers of papers, citations and co-authors, and excluding self-citations, “Highly-Ranked Scholar – Lifetime” = “top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide”.

Another criminality-from-face paper!
doi.org/10.1007/s110...
A Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications paper claims 95% accuracy at classifying a person as criminal or not. But 100% correlation of categories to different image sources. A fatal error as outlined in:
arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03895

The “Criminality from Face” Illusion will be my talk in the Data Bias and Fairness Speaker Series hosted by the Kansas Data Science Consortium, Feb 19 at 2:00 pm CST. The talk should be easy to understand and illustrate some basic data science lessons.

Great new old play at the Young Vic theater in London - A Face In the Crowd. Commentary on US celebrity and politics.
Songs from Elvis Costello.

Biometrics Institute Congress in London ended yesterday, with side events still today. Great talks (Jonathon Phillips, Arun Ross, Patrick Grother, Mark Nixon, ...) and panels. And great view of London from the meeting hall.

Looking forward to meeting with colleagues Jonathon Phillips (NIST), Michael King (FIT), Arun Ross (MSU), Stephanie Schuckers (UNCC), Eilidh Noyes (Huddersfield) and more at the Biometrics Institute Congress in London next week! Platinum Sponsor FaceTec!
www.biometricsinstitute.org/event/biomet...