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It has been said that “seeing is believing,” but in the age of social media, viral videos, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, can we truly believe what we see on the internet? Computer science researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a “Deepfake Detection Tool” to help answer that question.

In the newly released 2022 Top Scientist rankings by Research.com, 18 University of Maryland researchers ranked among the Top 1,000 Environmental Sciences researchers in the United States, and seven ranked among the Top 1,000 worldwide. 

Associate Professor Ming Hu will join the nation’s top minds in science, technology and engineering as a 2022-2023 Jefferson Science Fellow for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Hu is one of 14 scholars to be part of the program’s 19th class, which was established in 2003 by the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State. Fellows builds STEM expertise within the U.S. Department of State and the U.S.