Dr. Siwei Lyu received his B.S. degree in Information Science in 1997 and his MS degree in Computer Science in 2000, both from Peking University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, in 2005. From 1998 to 2000, he part-time worked at the Founder Research and Development Center, Beijing, China, where he developped a script language for an interactive multi-media authoring system. From 2000 to 2001, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia (then Microsoft Research China) as an assistant researcher, where he worked on techniques to render and recognize digital inks, for which he holds 2 patents. He is currently a post-doctoral research associate at New York University. His research interests are in machine learning applied to image modeling, computer vision, computational neural science, digital image forensics and bioinformatics.