About This Webinar
Peter Harrington clarifies some common buzzwords and phrases like AI and deep learning to help developers of hardware, software, and spectroscopic and sensing techniques align meanings or learn new ones.
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About the presenter:
Peter de Boves Harrington, Ph.D., is a professor of chemistry at Ohio University. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1980 with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry. In 1988, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a doctorate dissertation under Tom Isenhour entitled “Applications of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence to Some Problems in Analytical Chemistry.” He worked as flavor chemist for Nabisco from 1980 to 1982 and has maintained his interest in the analysis of foods and beverages—currently at Ohio University, his research focuses on the development of automated chemometrics and machine learning algorithms to solve problems in forensic identification and food safety. Before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1989 as an assistant professor, Harrington worked as a research assistant professor for Kent Voorhees at the Colorado School of Mines.
Harrington has over 200 publications and has made over 300 scientific presentations including many plenary and keynote speeches internationally. In 2016 he won the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Faculty Research Award; in 2019 he received the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemometrics and was recognized as an Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar. Harrington was recognized as a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 2015 and as a fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) in 2020. He is also a member of the Coblentz Society’s board of managers.