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.
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- (09/26/2024) Dr. Defang Chen joins UB MDFL as a post-doc and serves as the Assistant Lab Director. Welcome on board, Defang!
- (09/26/2024) After working in UB MDFL as Assistant Lab Director for three years, Dr. Shan Jia will join Google as a Research Scientist, Congratulations, Shan!
- (09/25/2024) This year our lab has THREE papers accepted to NeurIPS! [NEURIPS24A][NEURIPS24B][NEURIPS24C]
- (09/20/2024) I testified at the NY State Assembly Public Hearing on the Impact of AI on Consumer Safety and Privacy [Link]
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