1:00-1:45 AEST

Temporal Evolution of Human Perceptions and Detection of Deepfakes: An Empirical Study

Keynote speaker: Ganna Pogrebna

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2:45-3:45 AEST

Security Implications of Deepfakes and Potential Threats

Asher Flynn - Monash University

Dr Asher Flynn is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and a Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence: the Centre for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), where she leads the technology workstream. Asher is an award-winning international researcher in policy and prevention concerning gendered and sexual violence, with a key focus on technology-facilitated abuse. Asher has published eight books and over 60 chapters, articles and reports in this field and generated over $38m in funding. Her research has shaped policy and practice, including informing the introduction of federal and state laws on image-based sexual abuse across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Asher is the recipient of a number of prestigious national and international research fellowships and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminology. Asher is a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group to co-create a shared research agenda to end technology-facilitated gender-based violence and is the only Australian member of Meta’s Global Women’s Safety Board. Asher has advised the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner, the United Nations, Meta and Bumble on policy and prevention of technology-facilitated violence. See her Monash profile here and Google Scholar profile here. 

Kendra Vant - Xero

Spanning strategy, AI, and quantum computers — the pursuit of innovation made tangible to drive positive change has defined Kendra's career. Today she leads AI at Xero, helping small businesses and their advisors safely embrace and participate in the AI revolution. Under her leadership, Xero made the AFR's Most Innovative Companies list in 2022 and developed and launched products that save a century of toil every year for Xero’s global user base. Kendra combines a commercial focus, an in-depth knowledge of the fintech sector and a strong research background (MIT PhD) to shape Xero’s commercial data strategy, internal data infrastructure and its implementation of AI to build seamless customer experiences. Kendra is an outspoken advocate for positively embracing cultural and technological change in a world where the pace of change is accelerating. She has a track record of systematically building organisations that celebrate diversity, creating career-defining opportunities for the oft-overlooked. Her passions include quantitative wellness and restorative agriculture, regularly taking her to the beauty of regional Victoria where she is learning to farm and revegetate grassy woodlands.

Rob Cover - RMIT University

Rob is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the lead investigator on several Australian Research Council Discovery Projects including the “Digital Hostility Australia” study, and a project investigating the representation of gender and sexuality on Australian screens, and a co-investigator on an ARC Linkage Project with the History Trust of South Australia examining minority migration.  His research focuses on digital communication in the context of social belonging, minority youth, wellbeing and resilience.  Recent books include: Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self (Elsevier 2016), Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era (Routledge 2019), Fake News in Digital Cultures (with J Thompson & A Haw, 2022), Identity in Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices (Routledge 2023), among others. 

Shahroz Tariq - CSIRO's Data61

Shahroz Tariq received his Ph.D. from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, working on continual learning, deepfake, and anomaly detection. He was a Ph.D. research assistant at Stony Brook University and SUNY Korea (2017-2019). He received his B.S. in Computer Science with high distinction from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Islamabad, Pakistan, and his M.S. in Computer Science with high distinction from Sangmyung University, Cheonan, South Korea. He worked as a Software Engineer in Bentley Systems (2014-2015).  Now, he is a postdoctoral fellow working on human-AI collaborative systems for cybersecurity at CSIRO’s Data61 in Sydney, Australia. He has published deepfake detection papers in NeurIPS, ACMMM, WWW, ADGD, WMF, IFIPSEC, SAC, ASOC, and MPS. He has also published research articles in KDD, CIKM, SMC, COSE, IOSec, MiLeTS, and MobiSys. He has been a technical program committee member for AAAI, NeurIPS, KDD, ICLR, WSDM, SDM, WACV, WWW, and CIKM.