Biography:

Siwei Lyu is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (IAD) and the founding Director of the UB Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL).

Before joining UB, Dr. Lyu served as an Assistant Professor (2008–2014), tenured Associate Professor (2014–2019), and Full Professor (2019–2020) in the Department of Computer Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the founding Director of UAlbany's Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab (CVML). From 2005 to 2008, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Center for Neural Science at New York University. In 2001, he was an Assistant Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Lyu earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2005, and his M.S. (2000) and B.S. (1997) degrees in Computer Science and Information Science, respectively, from Peking University, China.

Dr. Lyu's research interests include media forensics, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 240 refereed journal and conference papers. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, DARPA, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Lyu has received numerous awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2011), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010), the University at Albany Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2017), the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2018), the Google Faculty Research Award (2019), and the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award (2021).

Dr. Lyu has served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee and held editorial positions with several prestigious journals. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IAPR, and the AAIA. He is also a Distinguished Member of the ACM, a Senior Member of the Sigma Xi Society, and a Member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Society.