
Digital forensics
Dr. Hany Farid
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Hany is the foremost expert on deepfakes and manipulated media and the co-founder of GetReal. He is also a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, image analysis, and human perception. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989, and an M.S. in Computer Science from SUNY Albany in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.