Hany Farid is an American university professor specializing in the analysis of digital images and the detection of digitally manipulated media, including deepfakes. He has served as Dean and Head of School for the UC Berkeley School of Information and currently serves as an advisor to Truepic. Alongside his academic work, he consults for non-profits, government agencies, and news organizations on image forensics issues. Farid is known for co-designing the PhotoDNA algorithm and for authoring the book Photo Forensics (2016).
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