The Use of a Statistical Model for Evaluating the Weight of Fingerprint Evidence
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The Use of a Statistical Model for Evaluating the Weight of Fingerprint Evidence
Dr. Cedric Neumann is a 1998 graduate from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He received the ENFSI 2009 Emerging Forensic Scientist Award.
From 2004 to 2010, Dr. Neumann worked as a Senior Forensic Scientist with the Forensic Science Service (FSS), in the United Kingdom, where he managed the Statistics and Interpretation Research Group. At the FSS, Dr. Neumann was involved with the statistical assignment of weight to various types of evidence, such as DNA, fingerprint and shoemark. Most notably, Dr. Neumann worked on the validation and implementation of an operational tool to statistically assess fingerprint evidence.
In 2010, Dr. Neumann joined the Forensic Science program of the Eberly College of Science of the Pennsylvania State University. His main responsibilities are to teach criminalistics in the forensic undergraduate and graduate programs, and to develop the research program. In October 2010, Dr. Neumann was awarded a NIJ grant to support his research in fingerprint statistics.
Dr. Neumann is serving on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Identification the FBI-sponsored Scientific Working Group on Friction Ridge Analysis, Study and Technology (SWGFAST).
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