General Chair

• 11th ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), 2023.

Competition Chair

• IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2026.

Associate Editor

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) Journal, 2023 – present.
• Elsevier Pattern Recognition (PR) Journal, 2023 – present.

Guest Editor

• IEEE Security & Privacy Special Issue on Synthetic Realities and AI-generated Contents, 2024.

Reviewer

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) Journal.
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI) Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (TTS) Journal.
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) Journal.
• Elsevier Pattern Recognition (PR) Journal.
• Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) Journal.
• Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI).
• Springer Signal, Image, and Video Processing (SIVP) Journal.

Conferences

• AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2026.
• Springer European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
• Springer European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD), Workshop of Deep Learning and Multimedia Forensics – Combating fake media and misinformation, 2023.
• CVPR Workshop on Foundation and Generative Models in Biometrics, 2026.
• CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics (WMF), 2024, 2020 – 2022.
• IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2022.
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022, 2021.
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021 – 2025.
• IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS), 2021.
• IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2025, 2023, 2022.
• IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), 2022, 2021.
• IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023, 2020.
• IEEE WACV Workshop on Deepfakes and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics (DeepPAB), 2020.
• ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), 2024 – 2026.
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2017.
• SBC International Conference on Graphics, Patterns, and Images (SIBGRAPI), 2023, 2022.

Grant Proposals

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel, 2025.
• Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center (CBCC) Seed Grant, Loyola University Chicago, 2025.

Technical Committee

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Center Editorial Board, 2022 – 2023.
• IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC), 2021 – 2023.

Thesis Committee

• João Bachiega Jr. Doctoral, University of Brasilia, defended March 2025.
• Rachel Gordon. Master’s, Loyola University Chicago, defended May 2024.
• Edoardo Cannas. Doctoral, Politecnico di Milano, defended April 2024.
• William Theisen. Doctoral, University of Notre Dame, defended April 2024.
• Pedro Valois. Master’s, University of Campinas, defended August 2022.

Proposal Reader

• Aliya Haas. Master’s, Loyola University Chicago, proposed February 2026.
• Jason Luce. Doctoral, Loyola University Chicago, proposed January 2026.
• Deeksha Arun. Doctoral, University of Notre Dame, proposed March 2025.
• Mahsa Mitcheff. Doctoral, University of Notre Dame, proposed November 2024.
• Gil de Carvalho. Master’s, University of Campinas, proposed July 2024.
• Edoardo Cannas. Doctoral, Politecnico di Milano, proposed November 2023.
• João Bachiega Jr. Doctoral, University of Brasilia, proposed November 2022.
• William Theisen. Doctoral, University of Notre Dame, proposed June 2022.
• Samuel Grieggs. Doctoral, University of Notre Dame, proposed May 2021.
• Thamiris Coelho. Master’s, University of Campinas, proposed December 2021.
• Pedro Valois. Master’s, University of Campinas, proposed August 2021.

Faculty Search Committee

• Algorithms Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, 2024.
• Cybersecurity Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, 2023.

Speaker

• Towards Responsible AI: Challenges and Strategies, Panel hosted by the Office of Global and Community Engagement, Loyola University Chicago, 2025. Co-authored with Joseph Vukov, Florence Chee, and Brian Green. Available online.
• Semantic Forensics – Charting a Path Through a Generative Tomorrow, Panel hosted at the IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), 2025. Co-authored with Michael Kozak, Jill Crisman, and Vladimir Barash. Information online.
• GenAI in Higher Education: A Critical Approach, Workshop hosted by the Faculty Center for Ignatian Pedagogy (FCIP), Loyola University Chicago, 2025. Co-authored with Guofang Wan, Theodore Barnes, Hong Ma, Jing Yang, and Eric Chan-Tin. Available online.
• Scientific Integrity Verification Through Image Forensics, IEEE SPS-IFS TC Webinar, 2023. Available online and on Youtube.
• Fighting Scientific Misconduct with Media Forensics, 12th Annual Symposium on Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago, 2023.
• Image Provenance Analysis for Disinformation Detection, Red Hat Research, 2022. Co-authored with Walter Scheirer. Available online.
• Human-machine Pairing to Improve Computer Vision, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) and IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022. Co-authored with Adam Czajka, Kevin Bowyer, and Aidan Boyd. Available on Youtube.

Advisor

• João Cardenuto. Doctoral, co-advised with Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, defended November 2024.
• Lorena Saba, Undergraduate, UX & Biometrics project, co-advised with Dinko Bačić, Loyola University Chicago, 2026.
• Alisa Samakhval, Undergraduate, Provost Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 2026.
• Abigail Daman, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Summer Research Experience (USRE), Loyola University Chicago, 2025.
• Rehonoma Jahin, Undergraduate, Provost Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 2025.
• Matt Hyatt, Undergraduate, Scientific Integrity project, Loyola University Chicago, 2023.
• Yvette Diaz, Undergraduate, Scientific Integrity project, Loyola University Chicago, 2023.
• Muhammad Khan, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Summer Research Experience (USRE), Loyola University Chicago, 2023.
• Madison Pickett, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Summer Research Experience (USRE), Loyola University Chicago, 2023.