Philadelphia

Have you heard of “fake news” or struggled to discern if a photo was real or had been digitally altered? This is just one area where Dr. Matthew Stamm’s lifework has been crucial, by separating fact from fiction in ways that drill down to forensic traces of digital alterations. Stamm, the head of the Multimedia and Information Security Lab at Drexel University and an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, conducts research in information forensics, which is designed to investigate 21st century media programs. In a world where trust in media content waxes and wanes, governments struggle to discern what digital intelligence is trustworthy, and people question the truth of what they are seeing or reading, Stamm and his team work to unearth “deepfakes” through sophisticated neural networks.