University of Zürich at Science Agora

October 11

”Deepfakes: High-tech Illusions to Trick the Human Brain”

Pre Agora Program October 11

INTRODUCTION (5MIN)

5:00pm – JST
10:00am – CEST

UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH (CH) – PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE (20MIN)

5:05pm – JST
10:05am – CEST

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS (JPN) – HISTORY, TECHNICAL ASPECTS, AND START-OF-THE-ART OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS (20MIN)

5:25pm – JST
10:25am – CEST

PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A (45MIN)

5:45pm – JST
10:45am – CEST

Speakers

Bio

Sascha Frühholz
University of Zurich (CH)
Sascha Frühholz has MSc degrees in Education (2001) and in Psychology (2006), and a PhD degree in Neurobiology (2008). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Geneva (2010-2013), and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (2013-2015). He is now a Professor for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience at the University of Zurich. His research interest concern social cognition from natural and deepfake human appearances.
Bio

Florence Steiner
University of Zurich (CH)
Florence Steiner has a MSc degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology and is currently PhD student in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Zurich. Her research examines the influence of dynamic emotional voices on listeners’ brains. Communicating science in an understandable, relatable, and entertaining way is her passion, for which she has also been recognized with awards.
Bio

Erica Cooper
National Institute for Informatics (JPN)
Erica Cooper received B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in 2009 and 2010. She received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University, USA, in 2019. Since 2019, she has been a postdoctoral researcher with the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include statistical machine learning and speech synthesis.
Bio

Xin Wang
National Institute for Informatics (JPN)
Xin Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree from SOKENDAI, Japan, in 2018. Before that, he received M.S. and B.E degrees from University of Science and Technology of China and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2015 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include statistical speech synthesis and machine learning.