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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.
June 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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”.
April 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
February 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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.
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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.
October 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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.
October 24, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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...
October 15, 2024 at 11:48 PM