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Siwei Lyu, Ph.D. [CV] [Google Scholar] [DBLP]

Fellow of IEEE and IAPR
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, UB Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL)
Co-Director, Center for Information Integrity (CII)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Phone: (716) 437-1587
Email: siweilyu AT buffalo DOT edu
Office: 317 Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY14260

Biography:

Siwei Lyu is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Siwei Lyu is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Director of the UB Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL), and the founding Co-Director of the Center for Information Integrity (CII) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA.

Before joining UB, Dr. Lyu served as an Assistant Professor (2008-2014), tenured Associate Professor (2014-2019), and Full Professor (2019-2020) at 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 both 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 digital media forensics, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 190 refereed journal and conference papers. His research projects are funded by NSF, DARPA, and the US Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Lyu has received numerous awards, such as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2011), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010), SUNY Albany's Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2017), SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2018), Google Faculty Research Award (2019), and 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. Dr. Lyu holds prestigious memberships and distinctions, including being a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, and AAIA. He is also a Distinguished Member of ACM, a Senior Member of the Sigma Xi Society, and a Member of the Omicron Delta Kappa society.

News

  • (12/06/2022) I became a Distinguished Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Link.
  • (09/12/2022) I become a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association AAIA.
  • (06/28/2022) University at Buffalo's news release on the establishment of Center for Information Integrity [Link].
  • (06/23/2022) I am honored and humbled to be elavated to the IAPR Fellow of Class 2022.
  • (05/24/2022) Receiving my IEEE Fellow pin at the 2022 ICASSP Conference from IEEE Signal Processing Society President.

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  • (05/09/2022) I sat down with Rachel and Eric at the ForcePoint Cybersecurity Podcast to talk about DeepFakes and the future [Link].
  • (05/06/2022) Lipeng Ke has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Ke! Lipeng will take position at Amazon.
  • (04/26/2022) I was interviewed by MSNBC News on a recent DeepFake case [Link] and TheStreet.com [Link].
  • (04/23/2022) Shu Hu has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Hu! Shu will take a post-doc position at Carneige Mellon University.
  • (04/14/2022) I had a good conversation with Kerry Tomlinson of Ampere News about DeepFakes [Part 1] and [YouTube Video -- Part 1], and [Part 2] and [YouTube Video -- Part 2]
  • (04/04/2022) Our paper on "Sum of Ranked Range Loss for Supervised Learning" is accepted by Journal of Machine Learning Research [JMLR22].
  • (03/15/2022) Our work on DeepFake detection has a particular timely meaning: see the recent reports on our work [Report1] and [Report2].
  • (02/17/2022) I was invited to give a talk at Bug.out [Video Link].
  • (02/07/2022) Our work on "Combating AI-Synthesized Media beyond Detection" has been funded by NSF SaTC [NSF Project Page].
  • (01/29/2022) I am appointed as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
  • (01/21/2022) We have three papers accepted to ICASSP 2022 [ICASSP22a][ICASSP22b][ICASSP22c]!
  • (12/01/2022) We have two papers accepted to AAAI 2022 [AAAI22a][AAAI22b]!
  • (11/23/2021) I am honored and humbled to be elavated to the IEEE Fellow of Class 2022 [Link]. I would like to thank my students, post-docs, colleagues, collaborators, and friends for their support!
  • (10/15/2021) UB estabhlishes the Center for Information Integrity (CII) to promote multi-disciplinary research in the area of mis/disinformation. I will serve as the founding Co-Director along with Prof. David Castillo of the Roman Language Department.
  • (10/02/2021) I am the receipient of the IEEE Region 1 (Northeastern US) Technological Innovation (Academic) Award for contributions in technologies that counter DeepFakes.
  • (09/23/2021) The NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 Project with me as the Principal Investigator has been awarded by the National Science Foundation, more details see the UB News Release. [Link]
  • (09/01/2021) Our lab continues to grow. Dr. Shan Jia will join my lab as a new post-doc, and Mingzhen Huang joins my lab as a Ph.D. student.

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