Featured Spotlight: Kate Collette

  • First-year anthropology master’s student Kate Collette, supervised by Department of Anthropology assistant teaching Professor Kayeleigh Sharp, won the Young Forensic Science Forum’s poster award at the American Academy of Forensic Science’s Annual Conference for her poster “Transforming Bioarchaeology: Computer Vision for Sex Identification in Skeletal Remains.” The poster details Collette’s research collecting images of skeletal human remains from the Lambayeque region of northern Peru and using them to train a deep learning algorithm to predict the age and sex classifications of the remains using their skeletal structures alone. 
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