Giorgio Patrini is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at Deeptrace, an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup developing deep learning technology for monitoring and detecting fake videos.
Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, working on deep generative models; and earlier at CSIRO Data61 in Sydney, Australia, building privacy-preserving learning systems with homomorphic encryption. He obtained his PhD in machine learning at the Australian National University. In 2012 he cofounded Waynaut, an Internet mobility startup acquired by lastminute.com in 2017.
Deepfakes are expected to come broadly online in 2020, ushering in an era of confusion or worse – the complete collapse of trust in what we see and hear. What do news operation need to know? And how...