Curious about potential negative impacts of voice cloning technology? Join our webinar to learn about the cutting-edge deepfake detection research happening at WashU.

Ning Zhang, assistant professor of computer science & engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU, was one of three winners of the FTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge announced April 8. Zhang’s winning project, DeFake, deploys a kind of watermarking for voice recordings. DeFake embeds carefully crafted distortions that are imperceptible to the human ear into recordings, making criminal cloning more difficult by eliminating usable voice samples.

Mark your calendars and join us via Zoom on October 29 at 2pm Central Time. This webinar is exclusively offered to members of the WashU community, so please do not share these details with anyone outside of WashU.

Click the link below to register in advance:

https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RX6KUCHUSGmxXPPX1OnnlQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

This event is part of our ongoing program celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month. For more information about additional events and resources this October, please visit our Cybersecurity Awareness Month page.