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University at Buffalo

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4.08/20/2025

Encourages open-minded and thoughtful discussions.

5.04/30/2025

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5.04/30/2025

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About Siwei

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. He currently directs the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, the UB Media Forensic Lab, and co-directs the Center for Information Integrity. Prior to joining UB in 2020, Lyu served as Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2014, Associate Professor from 2014 to 2019, and Full Professor from 2019 to 2020 at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he founded the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab. Earlier, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Center for Neural Science at New York University from 2005 to 2008, and an Assistant Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia in 2001. His academic journey began with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2005, an M.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2000, and a B.S. in Information Science from Peking University in 1997.