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I am an Associate Professor at Ocean University of China, where I lead the Visual Analysis & Security (VAS) Lab. My research focuses on Trustworthy Visual Intelligence, with particular interests in multimedia forensics, vision security, and machine learning. My work has been published in leading venues with over , including several works with thousands of citations, one of which was featured on CCTV13’s "World Weekly" special on deepfakes [7:43]. I have been named to Stanford Top 2% Scientists List (since 2023) and received the ACM Regional Rising Star Award (2024). I serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and Pattern Recognition. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and CCF.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2020 advised by Siwei Lyu (IEEE/IAPR/AAIA Fellow), and was subsequently a Senior Research Scientist at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. I received M.S. degree in 2015 and B.S. degree in 2012 at Shandong University.

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[2025.07]: We have released Celeb-DF++ benchmark (preview), an extension of earlier Celeb-DF dataset.
[2026.08]: I am invited as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member of AAAI 2027
[2026.07]: One paper on audio-visual deepfake detection is accepted by ACM MM 2026.
[2026.06]: One paper on deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TPAMI 2026 (extension of CVPR 2025).
[2026.06]: I have been elected as a IEEE Senior Member.
[2026.05]: I serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security starting this year.
[2026.04]: I serve as an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition starting this year.
[2026.04]: one work on CLIP-based generalizable deepfake detection is released at ArXiv Preprints.
[2026.04]: Three works on deepfake detection and image manipulation localization are released at ArXiv Preprints.
[2026.04]: I have been elected as a CCF Senior Member.
[2026.03]: One paper on active deepfake defense is accepted by TIFS 2026.
[2026.02]: One paper on optical flow estimation is accepted by CVPR 2026.
[2025.11]: Three master students are awarded an enterprise scholarship (¥2w). Congratulations!
[2025.10]: One paper on domain adaptation is accepted by TIP 2025.
[2025.10]: I gave a talk on advances on visual forensics PRCV 2025.
[2025.09]: Elected among World's Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University.
[2025.07]: One paper on proactive deepfake detection is accepted by TDSC 2025.
[2025.05]: One paper on underwater stereo matching is accepted by TCSVT 2025.
[2025.03]: One paper on image manipulation detection is accepted by ICME 2025.
[2025.02]: Two papers on deepfake detection are accepted by CVPR 2025.
[2025.02]: The work of TSOM is elected as WACV 2025 Oral.
[2025.01]: I gave a talk on face forensics in the wild at CSIG Young Scholars forum.
[2024.11]: One paper on phytoplankton tracking is accepted by TCSVT.
[2024.11]: Awarded BMVC outstanding reviewer.
[2024.10]: One paper on sequential deepfake detection is accepted by WACV.
[2024.09]: One paper on deepfake detection is accepted by NeurIPS.
[2024.09]: Elected among World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University.
[2024.09]: One paper on quality-agnostic deepfake detection is accepted by ACCV.
[2024.08]: One paper on 3D adversarial meshes are accepted by PG.
[2024.07]: Two papers on image manipulation detection are accepted by BMVC.
[2024.07]: One paper on transferable deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TIFS.
[2024.07]: One paper on generalizable deepfake detection is accepted by ECCV.
[2024.05]: One paper on multi-face deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TCSVT.
[2024.04]: One paper on deepfake detection is accepted by IEEE TIFS.
[2024.04]: One paper on deepfake defense is accepted by IEEE TETC.
[2024.04]: One paper on image-text retrieval is accepted by ICMR.
[2024.02]: One paper on image-text retrieval is accepted by KBS.
[2024.01]: One paper on deepfake defense is accepted by CVIU.
[2023.12]: One paper on adversarial robustness is accepted by ICASSP.
[2023.11]: I gave a talk at a forum in CSIG ChinaFMS conference 2023.
[2023.10]: One paper on adversarial robustness is accepted by CVIU.
[2023.07]: I gave a talk at a forum in CCF CFTC 2023 on Recent Advances on CV Security.
[2023.06]: One ICME paper entitled Forensics Forest is selected as Oral.
[2023.05]: A dataset on phytoplankton observation is accepted by JMSE.
[2023.05]: One paper on Semantic Segmentation is accepted by IEEE TNNLS.
[2023.04]: One paper on Universal Domain Adaptation is accepted by IEEE TCSVT.
[2023.03]: Two papers on DeepFake defense are accepted by ICME.
[2023.02]: One paper on Transferable Adversarial Attack is accepted by COSE.
[2022.12]: I gave a talk at CCBR 2022 on Recent Advances on AI Security.
[2022.11]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by Pattern Recognition.
[2022.08]: I gave a tutorial at MIPR 2022 on DeepFake Creation, Detection and Obstruction.
[2022.07]: I gave a tutorial at ICME 2022 on DeepFake creation and detection.
[2022.07]: One paper on face synthesis is accepted by PRL.
[2022.06]: One paper on DeepFake defense is accepted by ICIP.
[2022.06]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by Pattern Recognition.
[2022.05]: One paper on DeepFake detection is accepted by MIPR.
[2022.02]: One book chapter is publised on Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection, Springer.
[2021.12]: One book chapter is publised on Deep Learning-Based Face Analytics, 2021. Springer.
[2021.10]: One paper on adversarial attack is accepted by CVIU 2021.
[2021.08]: One paper on scene parsing is accepted by TNNLS 2021.
[2021.08]: I gave a tutorial at IJCB 2021 on Trustworthy Biometrics.
[2021.07]: One paper on backdoor attack is accepted by ICCV 2021.
[2021.06]: With my PhD advisor Prof. Siwei Lyu, I gave a tutorial at ICASSP 2021 on DeepFake Generation and Detection [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3].
[2021.06]: We are releasing DeepFake Game Competition (DFGC) dataset [Here]
[2021.05]: We are holding DeepFake Game Competition (DFGC) [Here]
[2021.03]: One paper on DeepFake-o-meter is accepted by SADFE in conjunction with the IEEE S&P 2021
[2021.02]: One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2021.
[2020.02]: Our paper on Celeb-DF is accepted by CVPR 2020.