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The Fall 2025 Data Science and Analytics Seminar Series presents "Use AI to Classify Objects Based on Texture," with invited speaker H. David Sheets, director of the graduate program in data science at Merrimack College, on Monday, October 6, from 4:30 to 5: 45 p.m. in Bacon Hall 115 (Zoom 718 6340613).

The presentation will focus on:

• Classification of texture
• Convolutional neural networks
• Bayesian drop-out 

Dr. Sheets was trained as a physicist, but has worked for many years as an applied data scientist, working in a wide variety of collaborative, interdisciplinary teams to address a variety of questions. He has published scientific works in biology, entomology, forensics, paleobiology, physics, anthropology, and art conservation. He is a coauthor of a leading textbook in geometric morphometrics, a set of methods for carrying out hypothesis testing based on the shapes of non-human organisms. His current work focuses on approaches to measuring the performance characteristics of forensic firearms and handwriting examiners, and on data science approaches to the analysis of surface textures on art objects.