蜜桃传媒

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Lyu was appointed to the distinguished professor ranks by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its meeting on April 29, along with seven other 蜜桃传媒 faculty members.

According to SUNY, “this distinction is attained through significant contributions to the research literature or through artistic performance or achievement in the case of the arts. The candidate’s work must be of such character that the individual’s presence will tend to elevate the standards of scholarship of colleagues both within and beyond these persons’ academic fields.”

Lyu is known for his extraordinary research and scholarship in the area of multimedia forensics and, in particular, AI-generated deepfakes. He frequently provides his expertise to the news media, including USA Today, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Newsweek, National Geographic and NPR.

Lyu holds four United States patents, has authored 230 peer-reviewed papers and has received more than $11.5 million in research support from the National Science Foundation, DARPA and U.S. Space Force, among others.

Director of UB’s Media Forensics Lab and founding co-director of the university’s Center for Information Integrity, Lyu’s work has contributed to UB’s national reputation as a source for detecting and mitigating disinformation and misinformation online. He chairs the Scientific & Technical Review Panel on Forensic Science for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has worked with both New York State and U.S. policymakers, as well as industry, on socially significant issues related to deepfakes.

He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2018, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Association of Pattern Recognition and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He was also named one of four Thought Leaders of 2024 by the American Association of Forensic Science.

Lyu earned his PhD in computer science at Dartmouth College and his master’s degree in computer science and technology and bachelor’s degree in information science from Pecking 蜜桃传媒 in Beijing.

Irus Braverman, professor and William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar in the School of Law, Michael Cain, professor of medicine and biomedical engineering in the Deparmtnet of Medicine, Jian Feng, UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Samina Raja, professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jennifer Read, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, Despina Stratigakos, professor in the Department of Architecture, and Nallan Suresh, UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Operations Management and Strategy, are the other UB faculty members who have been named SUNY Distinguished Professors.