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As Associate Director of the National Center for Media Forensics, Jeff has the pleasure of helping build the foundation for strengthening forensic sciences in the U.S. through the Center's education and research programs. Smith's research areas include the forensic authentication of recorded media, forensic speaker recognition, multimedia file analysis, and machine learning applications. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) as Chair of the Technical Committee on Audio Forensics and past chair of the Colorado Section of the AES.
In 2019 Jeff curated a selection of AES resources for Inside Track on the topic of Audio Forensics, which remains an important area of development in audio engineering. Introducing the theme at the time, he pointed out that the field can be thought of as a coin with two important sides that the AES is involved in: research and practice. As a practice, audio forensics is first and foremost a forensic science. This means that the factors important in all forensic disciplines are no less important here: standard practices, concepts of individualization, evidence handling and documentation, ethics, awareness of cognitive biases, clear and concise presentation of findings, and so on. Working as a scientist within the forensic construct, an audio forensics practitioner then relies heavily on the other side of the coin where tools, methods, and techniques are developed through research and publication.
