Dr. Siwei Lyu received his B.S. degree (Information Science) in 1997 and his M.S. degree (Computer Science) in 2000, both from Peking University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Center for Neural Science of New York University. Starting in 2008, he is Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Lyu is the recipient of the Alumni Thesis Award of Dartmouth College in 2005, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2010. He has authored one book, and held two U.S. and one E.U. patents. He has published more than 30 conference and journal papers in the research fields of natural image statistics, digital image forensics, machine learning and computer vision.

-- JeffTrinkle - 2010-08-23