<h3 style="text-align: center;"></h3> <img class="aligncenter wp-image-21909 size-full" src="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hany-Farid.png" alt="We are outgunned" width="1200" height="800" /> <blockquote> <p style="text-align: left;">“We are outgunned. The number of people working on the video-<strong><a href="https://ancient.cybermaterial.com/definition-synthetic-media/">synthesis</a> </strong>side, as opposed to the detector side, is 100 to 1.” <strong><span class="JsGRdQ">Hany Farid - </span><span class="JsGRdQ">Computer-science professor at UC Berkeley</span></strong></p> </blockquote> <em><strong>Source: <a href="https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2019/hany-farid-race-detect-deepfake-videos-we-are-outgunned"> Berkeley Edu - </a>We are outgunned.</strong></em> <strong>About Hany Farid:</strong> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hany Farid is an American university professor who specializes in the analysis of digital images, Dean and Head of School for the UC Berkeley School of Information. In addition to teaching, writing, and conducting research, Farid acts as a consultant for non-profits, government agencies, and news organizations. He is the author of the book <i>Photo Forensics</i>.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Farid specializes in image analysis and human perception. He has been called the "father" of digital image forensics by NOVA scienceNOW. He is the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2002 Sloan Fellowship for his work in the field. Farid was named a lifetime fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In January 2021, Hany Farid is appointed Associate Dean and Head of School for the School of Information. He remains professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the School of Information. He is also a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab, the Center for Innovation in Vision and Optics, and the Vision Science program.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Prior to joining Berkeley, Farid was the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and former chair of Dartmouth's Neukom Institute for Computational Science. Farid was well-known at Dartmouth for teaching the college's introductory course on programming and computer science. Joseph Helble, dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, described Farid as a pioneer in the field of digital forensics. Farid joined Dartmouth's faculty in 1999. He remained at Dartmouth until 2019.</p>