Day One Agenda – January 26, 2015

8:30 – 9:00 AM REGISTRATION

9:00 – 9:15 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

Susan Ballou, Manager, Forensic Science Research Program, Special Program Office (SPO)

9:15 – 10:15 AM PLENARY SESSION

The Role of Research Datasets in Improving Biometric and Forensic Technology

Mark Greene, Program Manager, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) 

Melissa Taylor, Program Manager, Forensic Science Research Program, SPO, NIST 

Challenges in the Collection and Use of Biometric and Forensic Datasets

Austin Hicklin, Fellow, Noblis

Brad Wing, Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), NIST

10:15 – 11:45 AM PANEL: PRIVACY AND LEGAL ISSUES IN THE COLLECTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND USE OF 

BIOMETRIC AND FORENSIC DATASETS

• Mike Garris, ITL, NIST

• Jeremy Dawson, Research Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

• Greg Michaud, Director, Forensic Science Division, Michigan State Police

• Dorothy Glancy, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University

Moderator: Henry Wixon, Chief Counsel, NIST and Brad Wing, ITL, NIST

11:45 – 12:45 PM LUNCH

12:45 - 1:00 PM NIST’s New Catalog of Publicly Available Biometric Databases 

Shannan Williams, Project Manager, Forensic Science Research Program, SPO, NIST

1:00 – 2:35 PM FINGERPRINT/PALMPRINT

State of the Industry

Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 

Michigan State University

WVU Biometric Data Collection Projects

Jeremy Dawson, Research Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

NIST’s Fingerprint Database Cataloging Efforts 

Craig Watson, ITL, NIST

Improving Biometric and Forensic 

Technology:

The Future of Research Datasets

National Institute of Standards and Technology

January 26-27, 2015

Green Auditorium

Gaithersburg, MD

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Day Two Agenda – January 27, 2015

8:30 – 9:00 AM REGISTRATION

9:00 – 10:00 AM PANEL: STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN BIOMETRIC AND FORENSIC DATASETS

• Chris Saunders, Assistant Professor, Statistics, South Dakota State University

• Mike Thieme, Vice President, IBG, A Novetta Solutions Company

• Hariharan Iyer, Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

Moderator: Karen Kafadar, Commonwealth Professor & Chair of Statistics, University of 

Virginia 

10:00 – 11:00 AM VOICE 

State of the Industry 

Hirotaka Nakasone, Senior Scientist, Operational Technology Division, Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI)

Usability of existing databases

Peter Higgins, Independent Biometrics Consultant, Higgins & Associates, International

Future database needs discussion

Moderator: Vincent Stanford, ITL, NIST

11:00 – 11:15 AM BREAK

Usefulness of existing databases 

Elham Tabassi, ITL, NIST

Future database needs discussion

Moderator: Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and 

Engineering, Michigan State University

2:35 – 3:00 PM BREAK

3:00 – 4:30 PM IRIS

State of the Industry 

Stephanie Schuckers, Director of the Center of Identification Technology Research/ Professor, 

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University

NIST Iris Databases

George W. Quinn, ITL, NIST

Iris as a Forensic Modality vs. Cooperative and Traditional Iris Biometrics

Arun Ross, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan 

State University

Future database needs discussion

Moderator: Patrick Grother, ITL, NIST

4:30 – 4:45 PM CLOSING REMARKS

Day Two Overview

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11:15 – 12:15 PM HANDWRITING

State of the Industry 

Ted Burkes, Questioned Documents Unit, FBI

Specific Approaches to Statistical Analysis and Collection of Handwriting Databases 

Christopher Saunders, Assistant Professor, Statistics, South Dakota State University

Disguised Writing and Tracing Samples

Peter Tytell, Private Forensic Document Examiner

Future database needs discussion

Moderator: JoAnn Buscaglia, FBI

12:15– 1:15 PM LUNCH

FACE AND PERSON-AT-A-DISTANCE

1:15 – 3:00 PM State of the Industry Face 

Mark Burge, Office of Smart Collection, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, 

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

State of Industry, Person at a Distance 

Brendan Klare, Noblis

NIST Face and Person-at-a-Distance Databases

Jonathon Phillips, ITL, NIST

Summary of DHS’ database cataloging efforts: Mobile Data Collection

Marcia Kimura and Rebecca Erikson, Department of Energy, Pacific Northwest Laboratory

Future database needs discussion 

Moderator: Richard Vorder Bruegge, FBI

3:00 – 3:30 PM CLOSING REMARKS

NIST Next Steps & Summary Comments

Austin Hicklin, Fellow, Noblis

Brad Wing, ITL, NIST

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