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Siwei Lyu, Ph.D., FIEEE, FIAPR [Google Scholar] [DBLP]

SUNY Distinguished Professor, Empire Innovation Professor
Director, Institute for AI and Data Science (IAD)
Director, UB Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL)
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Phone: (716) 437-1587
Email: siweilyu AT buffalo DOT edu
Office: 313 Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY14260

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 was with the Department of Computer Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York (2008-2020) as 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 270 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.

Awards & Recognitions
  • Outstanding Contribution Award for Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization, and Interpretability at IJCAI 2025
  • Elevation to Distinguished Member of ACM for contributions to the detection of synthesized or manipulated multimedia, August, 2022.
  • Elevation to IAPR Fellow for contributions to the counter-technologies of DeepFakes, August, 2022.
  • Elevation to IEEE Fellow for contributions to counter- technologies of AI-synthesized fake media, Novemeber, 2021.
  • Elevation to AIAA Fellow, Novemeber, 2021.
  • IEEE Region 1 (Northeastern US) Technological Innovation (Academic) Award for contributions in technologies that counter DeepFakes, October, 2021.
  • Google Faculty Research Award for detection of audio DeepFakes, Google AI, February, 2019.
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, State University of New York, April, 2018.
  • Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, University at Albany, State University of New York, April, 2017.
  • Senior Member, IEEE, September, 2016.
  • Faculty Research Award, University at Albany, State University of New York, February, 2013.
  • Faculty Research Award, University at Albany, State University of New York, February, 2011.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Signal Processing Society, May, 2011.
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, May, 2010.
  • Faculty Research Award, University at Albany, State University of New York, February, 2009.

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