Co-Directors

Department of Romance Languages & Literature


David R. Castillo is Professor of Spanish and co-director of the Center for Information Integrity at SUNY Buffalo where he served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures from 2009 to 2015 and Director of the Humanities institute from 2016 to 2022.

He is the author of Un-Deceptions: Cervantine Strategies for the Disinformation Age, Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities and Awry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque, and co-author of Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media, Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics and What Would Cervantes Do? Navigating Post-truth with Spanish Baroque Literature.

Castillo has also coedited Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World, Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early and Postmodern Hispanic Cultures, Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World, and Continental Theory Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of UB’s Media Forensic Lab

Siwei Lyu is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Director of UB's Media Forensic Lab (UB MDFL), and the founding Co-Director of Center for Information Integrity (CII) of University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Lyu's research interests include digital media forensics, computer vision, and machine learning.

Lyu has published over 170 refereed journal and conference papers. He is the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2011), the National Science Foundation Career Award (2010), SUNY Albany's Presidential Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2017), SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2018), Google Faculty Research Award (2019), and IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award (2021). He is a Fellow of IEEE.