Artificial Intelligence
Forensic Biology Research and Development at NIJ
Forensic Biology involves the collection, study, and analysis of biological material on evidence from crime scenes to provide unbiased, scientific reports for a criminal or civil court case to give a better understanding of the crime that occurred. Historically, one of the earliest forensic biologists was Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1985 using DNA fingerprinting or DNA typing to individually identify humans.[1] He targeted variable...
Spatial analysis of social vulnerability and crime disparities through interpretable machine learning
15PNIJ-24-GG-01573-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$180,000
FBI subaward to SDSU project 15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU "Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems"
O2308-015-015-012164
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$59,332
Deciphering Severely Degraded License Plates
Date Published
2017
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Technical note: Evaluation of missing data imputation methods for human osteometric measurements
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Adversarial Autoencoder Data Synthesis for Enhancing Machine Learning-Based Phishing Detection Algorithms
Date Published
July 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Hyperbolic Graph Attention Network
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding With Adversarial Disentangler
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Perinatal Disorders and Small Birthweight Are Significantly Associated With Small Vertebral Neural Canal Size in a Contemporary Pediatric Autopsy Sample
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluation of Missing Data Imputation Methods for Human Osteometric Measurements
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Distinguishing Infested Flour from Uninfested Flour through Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS Data─Revealing the Presence of Tribolium castaneum, the Red Flour Beetle
Date Published
May 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis-derived Finished Products for Forensic Laboratories
DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0002
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$400,000
Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims' credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes
Date Published
September 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Using machine learning to assess rape reports: Sentiment analysis detection of officers' “signaling” about victims' credibility
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003)
15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$99,818
Rep2Vec: Repository Embedding via Heterogeneous Graph Adversarial Contrastive Learning
Date Published
August 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Operationalizing the Individual versus Group Fairness Dichotomy for Recidivism Risk Assessment: US Legal Challenges and Technical Proposals
15PNIJ-23-GG-01932-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$166,500
Expert Algorithm for Substance Identification Using Mass Spectrometry: Statistical Foundations in Unimolecular Reaction Rate Theory
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
2023 NIJ Research Conference Opening Ceremony
August 2023
Series
The theme of NIJ’s 2023 Research Conference was “evidence to action,” and our goal was to bring researchers and practitioners together to learn about the latest research evidence and how it can be implemented to promote safety, equity, and justice.
The opening ceremony included remarks from U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Amy Solomon, and NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne.
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Coral Genus Differentiation Based on Direct Analysis in Real Time-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry-Derived Chemical Fingerprints
Date Published
2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Imperfect Tools: A Research Note on Developing, Applying, and Increasing Understanding of Criminal Justice Risk Assessments
Date Published
June 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
Investigation of Subadult Dental Age-at-death Estimation using Transition Analysis and Machine Learning Methods
Date Published
December 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Shedding Light on Assault
November 2022
Series
Senior Science Writer Maya Pilkington is joined by “the Paintball Lady” – Dr. Katherine Scafide. Dr. Scafide shares how her research on detecting bruises and skills as a forensic nurse help pediatric and adult assault and domestic violence victims by providing clear documentation.