[Forum SIS] PhD @Lausanne: Forensic statistics

[Giacomo Aletti]

https://applicationsinter.unil.ch/inter/noauth/php/Po/pooffres.php?poid=3398&langage=8

PhD Position Summary: The School of Criminal Justice is seeking an
aspiring young scientist to start a PhD research project on
probabilistic evaluation of comparative handwriting examinations using
graphical models (i.e., Bayesian networks). A Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF) Grant funds the starting phase of this PhD project
during a period of 18 months.

Project Summary: The primary objective of this SNSF funded research is
to rely on Bayesian networks within a general methodology for
structured expert knowledge elicitation and analysis in order to build
diagrammatic interpretation structures that have the potential to
become part of the scope of resources that forensic experts need to
substantiate probabilistic evaluations and conclusions in cases
involving the results of comparative handwriting examinations. The
appointed PhD candidate in this project will work closely with
practising forensic handwriting examiners and conduct both fundamental
research on probabilistic interpretation in the context of forensic
handwriting examination and in-depth case studies. The project also
involves exchanges on methods and approaches with a researcher from
the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of the China
University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (CUPL).

Application until: December 19th, 2014


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Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor

ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM)
Advanced  Applied Mathematical  and Statistical Sciences

Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.unimi.it)
Via Saldini, 50
20133 Milano, Italy
Tel: +39-02-503.16158
Fax:+39-02-503.16090
Cell: +39-340-9739142