Provost Speaker Series: “Towards an All-in-One Media Forensics Tool” featuring Matthew Wright, PhD.
Provost Speaker Series | March 6, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.
Matthew Wright, Ph.D., from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute presents “Towards an All-in-One Media Forensics Tool”.
In today’s society, it’s apparent that you can’t trust everything you see online. Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to create images, voices, and videos that aren’t what they seem. Our very own researchers in the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute are developing a tool to help journalists spot deepfakes.
Intelligence analysts, journalists, and forensics experts must quickly and accurately examine and report on information in multiple modalities. With the rise of Generative AI, these specialists face unprecedented challenges and require effective, reliable, and explainable media detection and analysis tools.
Join the next installment of of the Provost Speaker Series, as
Matthew Wright, Ph.D.,
from RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute presents
“Towards an All-in-One Media Forensics Tool”
Friday, March 6, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Zoom Only / Registration required >.
Dr. Wright explains how his team’s research explores the requirements for deepfake detection tools and explainability features, with studies involving 30 US-based intelligence analysts, 24 US journalists, and 11 Bangladeshi journalists. From their findings, they argue that these specialists need an all-in-one tool for media forensics and propose an ontology-based approach to creating a navigable user interface for such a tool.
This Provost Speaker Series event is open to the RIT community, and you don’t have to be an expert in the field just to learn more. Please join us as we explore what’s happening at RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.
Stay for the question and answer session after the presentation with Matt and members of his team.
About the Speaker: Matthew Wright, Ph.D., is the Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His research spans privacy and anonymity online, human factors in security, distributed systems security, and the application of AI to cybersecurity problems. Learn more: https://www.defake.app/about
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If you are interested in participating as guest speaker, please contact LaVerne McQuiller Williams, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at (585) 475-2935 or llmgcj@rit.edu.
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