UB Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL) [Lab Web] [Lab Wiki]

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Current Members

Dr. Defang Chen
Assistant Lab Director, Post-Doc

Chengzhe Sun
Lab Manager, Ph.D. Student

Yan Ju
Ph.D. Student

Mingzhen Huang
Ph.D. Student

Soumyya Kanti Datta
Ph.D. Student

Zhaofeng Si
Ph.D. Student

Jialing Cai
Ph.D. Student

Yu Cai
Ph.D. Student

Riky Zhou
M.S. Student

Tanvi Ranga
M.S. Student

Sheng'an Shi
UG Student

Reilin Lyu
High School Student Intern

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Alumni

• 🎓Dr. Shan Jia, Post-Doc, 2022 - 2024, Google, Sunnyville, CA.
• 🎓Sneha Muppalla, High School Student Intern, 2022 - 2023, undergraduate at UC Berkeley, CA.
• 🎓Dr. Lipeng Ke, graduated 2022, Amazon, Sunnyville, CA.
• 🎓Dr. Shu Hu, graduated 2022 (Thesis Award), Assistant Professor, Purdue University Indianapolis.
• 🎓Dr. Ehab Albawdaway, Ph.D. graduate, 2022, Meta Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
• 🎓Dr. Yuezun Li, graduated 2020, Post-doc, SUNY Buffalo, 2020-2021, Assistant Professor, Chinese Ocean University, Qingdao, China.
• Dr. Feng Ding, Post-doc, 2019-2020, Huadong Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China.
• Dr. Dawei Du, Post-doc, 2018-2020, ByteDance Inc., CA.
• Dr. Ao Luo, visiting student, 2018-2020, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
• Dr. Xin Yang, MS graduate, 2019, Amazon, Seattle, WA.
• 🎓Dr. Wenbo Li, graduated 2019, Samsung Research Lab USA.
• Dr. Yanbo Fan, visiting student, 2016-2017, Tencent AI Lab (China).
• Dr. Longyin Wen, Post-doc, 2015-2017, ByteDance Inc., CA.
• 🎓Dr. Yueming Yang, graduated 2017, tenure track Assistant Professor at Baldwin Wallace University (OH).
  First job: Assistant Professor, School of Mount Holyoke (MA).
• Dr. Baoyuan Wu, visiting scholar 2013 - 2014, Hongkong Chinese University, Shenzhen.
• 🎓Dr. Xin Wang, graduated 2015, Assistant Professor, University at Albany.
• Dr. Xing Mei, Post-doc, 2013-2015, ByteDance Inc., CA.
• 🎓Dr. Amanda (Danko) Fernandez, graduated 2015 (Thesis Award), Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio. First job: USAA Research.
• Xing Zhang, MS graduated 2014, Google Inc.
• Dr. Weiyi (Vivien) Sun, graduated 2014, Nuance Communications.
• Jianting Wen, MS graduate 2013, Facebook.
• 🎓Dr. Xunyu Pan, graduated 2012, tenured Associate Professor, Computer Science,
  Frostburg State University, MD.

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Lab Photos

• UB MDFL picnic, Niagara Fort State Park, Summer 2022

  

• Lipeng Ke and Shu Hu graduation ceremony, May 2022

  

  Dr. Lipeng Ke, Prof. Siwei Lyu, and Dr. Shu Hu.

• UB MDFL Dinner, Buffalo Little Lamb Restaurant, October 2021

  

  (first row left to right): Yan Ju, Shu Hu, Mingzhen Huang, Dr. Siwei Lyu, Chengzhe Sun, and Lipeng Ke.

• UAlbany CVML Lab picnic, Moreau State Park, Fall 2019

  

  (first row left to right): Rui Wang, Dr. Chengjiang Long (Kitware), Dr. Siwei Lyu, Dr. Ming-Ching Chang, Dr. Yiming Ying (Math Dept), Shu Hu
  (second row left to right): Abhineet Pandey, Ehab Albadawy, Yuezun Li, Dawei Du, Yi Wei, Ao Luo, and Lipeng Ke.

• UAlbany CVML Lab Lunch, A La Shanghai, Latham, Fall 2019

  

• Dr. Lyu received SUNY Award for Excellence in Research, Fall 2018

  

  (left to right) President Havidàn Rodríguez, Dr. Siwei Lyu, and Dean Kim Boyer.

• AI City Challenge Award, Spring 2017

  

  (left to right) Nenghui Song, Dr. Siwei Lyu, Dr. Ming-Ching Chang, Yi Wei.

• UAlbany CVML Lab picnic, Grafton Lake State Park, Fall 2017

  

  (left to right): Nenghui Song, Yanbo Fan, Ruolin Hou, Wenbo Li, Yuezun Li, Dr. Yiming Ying (Math Dept),
  Yi Wei, Dr. Ming-Ching Chang, Dr. Xiao Bian (GE Research), Dr. Siwei Lyu, Dr. Longyin Wen, Shengkun Li.

• UAlbany CVML Lab picnic, Thacher State Park, Fall 2016

  

  (left to right): Wenbo Li, Shengkun Li, Dr. Longyin Wen, Dr. Siwei Lyu, Dr. Ming-Ching Chang,
  Yanbo Fan, Yuezun Li, Yi Wei.

• UAlbany CVML Lab lunch, Sushi X, Latham, summer 2015

  

  (left to right): Andrew Pulver, Dr. Xing Mei, Yueming Yang, Xin Wang,
  Dr. Siwei Lyu, Dr. Yiming Ying ( Math Dept).