Saniat Sohrawardi attended APEX 2026, the Information Professionals Association’s Cognitive Security Educational Forum, in Reston, Virginia, on September 8 and 9, 2026. The forum brought together researchers and…
Saniat Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu went to the SWGDE meeting at Sunriver Resort in Bend, Oregon, from August 31 to September 3, 2026. It was a scenic resort…
The DeFake team went to USENIX Security 2026 in Baltimore, Maryland, from August 12 to 14, 2026. It was a good chance to catch up on the latest…
The DeFake team went to the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) workshop at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado, from June 14 to 18, 2026.…
We ran our exhibit on ImagineRIT on April 25th, 2026 at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute in the Exhibit Hall. The experience of the DeFake Define project was deployed…
The exhibit What Do You Mean by “Fake”? An Interactive Exploration of Synthetic Media — with Kelly Wu, Ishmam Bin Rofi and Palavi Vinod Bhole. Visitors defined terms via…
Kelly Wu and Saniat Sohrawardi have traveled to Denver, Colorado, for the May workgroup meeting with a community of experts in digital media forensics. As professionals in the…
Deceptive synthetic media threaten the credibility of information at critical moments. AI detection tools can help mitigate this risk—but only if they are effective, accessible, and usable in…
Members of the project, Saniat Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu participated in the ClaimBuster Ideation Workshop where they engaged in fruitful discussions about the potential growth directions and improvements…
Saniat Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu were invited to present two workshops on “Deepfakes Demystified: Empowering Law Enforcement in the Digital Age” at the 35th Annual LEVA Training Symposium…
The DeFake Project team contributed a chapter, “Verification AI in the Newsroom: A Cross-Cultural Study of Journalists’ Use of Deepfake Detection Tools” to the book, “Promoting AI’s Safe…
Saniat Sohrawardi and Kelly Wu visited the SWGDE September ’24 meeting to participate in the ad-hoc AI and Imaging committees respectively, making major contributions to the standardization of…