Siwei Lyu

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).

Dr. Lyu's research interests include media forensics, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 240 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. Dr. Lyu has received numerous awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2011), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010), the University at Albany Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2017), the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2018), the Google Faculty Research Award (2019), and the 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. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IAPR, and the AAIA. He is also a Distinguished Member of the ACM, a Senior Member of the Sigma Xi Society, and a Member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Society.