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Hany Farid is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and 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 completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. In 1999, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College and remained there until 2019. Farid has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. His contributions to the field include significant research in digital forensics and image manipulation, particularly through his involvement with the Berkeley Center for Computational Imaging and the Visual Computing Lab.
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