Our goal is to share how CSAFE research directly impacts the forensic science community. To connect you with the latest advancements, our team publicizes research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and at worldwide forensic science conferences.
Below you will find links to full publications resulting from center research, as well as copies of recent presentation slides. Looking for more CSAFE products? Find research tools and datasets in our resources section.
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Forensic Analysis on Cryptocurrency Wallet Apps
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2022 | By: Chen Shi
The following was presented at the 74th Annual Scientific Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Seattle, Washington, February 21-25, 2022.
Mobile steganography: Looking to the future
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Jennifer Newman
Humans have sent secret messages for millennia. A cousin to cryptography, steganography is the art and science of sending a secret message in the open by camouflaging the message carefully. Steganography can take many shapes, and its digital form often…
Ensemble of SLR Systems for Forensic Evidence
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2022 | By: Federico Veneri
Score-based likelihood ratios (SLR) have been used as an alternative to feature-based likelihood ratios when the construction of a probabilistic model becomes challenging or infeasible [1]. Although SLR has been shown to provide an alternative way to present a numeric…
Surveying Practicing Firearm Examiners
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks,Implementation and Practice
Published: 2022 | By: Nicholas Scurich
A sample (n = 79) of practicing firearm and toolmark examiners was queried about casework as well as their views about the potential role that statistics might play in future firearm examinations and expert witness testimony. Principal findings include: The…
Blind testing in firearms: Preliminary results from a blind quality control program
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks,Implementation and Practice
Published: 2022 | By: Maddisen Neuman
Open proficiency tests meet accreditation requirements and measure examiner competence but may not represent actual casework. In December 2015, the Houston Forensic Science Center began a blind quality control program in firearms examination. Mock cases are created to mimic routine…
Modeling covarying responses of forensic decision-makers within an IRT framework
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2020 | By: Amanda Luby
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2020
Latent Print Quality in Blind Proficiency Testing: Using Quality Metrics to Examine Laboratory Performance
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Brett Gardner
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 2021
Evaluating the Reliability of Randomly Acquired Characteristics (RACs) Identification in Footwear Impression Evidence
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Footwear
Published: 2021 | By: Corey Katz
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 2021
Studying Reproducibility and Reliability for Pattern Evidence Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Hina Arora
Presented at International Association for Identification (IAI) 2021
Ruger LCP Study: a two-pronged approach
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks
Published: 2021 | By: Melissa Nally
This study started as an attempt to take a closer look at the rifling observed in the 380 Auto Ruger LCP pistol
Statistics in the Pursuit of Justice—A More Principled Strategy to Analyze Forensic Evidence.
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Alicia Carriquiry
Florence Nightingale David Lecture at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM)
The Implementation of a Blind Quality Control Program in a Forensic Laboratory
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Callan Hundl
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 2021
A Response to the Threat of Stegware
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Abby Martin
Stegware refers to software, programs or apps that allow insertion of malware into a digital file, such as an image or video, using steganography techniques. Although it has been in action for around 15 years, “steganography” and “stegware” have recently…
A Novel, Data-Driven Approach to the Classification of Bloodstain Patterns
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Bloodstain
Published: 2021 | By: Tong Zou
Bloodstain pattern analysis is the study of bloodstains at a crime scene with the purpose of drawing inference about the crime. A typical objective for bloodstain pattern analysis is to identify the cause/mechanism that produced the pattern. Examples of possible…
A Forensic Analysis of Joker-Enabled Android Malware Apps
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Chen Shi
This project aims at developing a set of automated Android Malware vetting tools to discover all the malicious behaviors of Android Malwares in the forms of files in the local storage, SQLite database, or data sent to remote 3-party server(s).…
A Field Analysis of Laboratory Case Processing: Latent Print Comparison and Examiner Conclusions
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Brett Gardner
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
Reliability for Ordinal Data in Forensics
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Hina Arora
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2021
Studying Reliability for Pattern Evidence Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Hina Arora
Presentation prepared for International Association for Identification (IAI) 2021
Bayesian Item Response Theory for Human Factors in Forensic Science
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Amanda Luby
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2021
Machine Learning Methods for Dependent Data Resulting from Forensic Evidence Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Danica Ommen
Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting in 2021
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