News
- 2025.07 Congratulations to Mingyue Chen for publishing the paper, "Flexible Partial Screen-shooting Watermarking with Provable Robustness", on TCSVT.
- 2025.02 Congratulations to Dr. Hu on winning the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hunan Association Artificial Intelligence.
- 2025.01 Congratulations to Dr. Chen for publishing the paper, "PRest-Net: Multi-domain Probability Estimation Network for Robust Image Forgery Detection", on TOMM.
- 2024.12 Congratulations to Dr. Hu for publishing the paper, "ADA-FInfer: Inferring Face Representations from Adaptive Select Frames for High-Visual-Quality Deepfake Detection", on TDSC.
- 2024.12 Congratulations to Linbo Fu for publishing the paper, "WaveRecovery: Screen-shooting Watermarking based on Wavelet and Recovery", on TCSVT.
- 2024.11 Congratulations to Yizhi Yao, Zhengdong Wang, Jindou Xin and Mingyue Chen for winning the first prize in China Postgraduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition.
- 2024.11 Congratulations to Xiaoshuai Wu for winning the National Scholarship (Doctoral Student).
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Biography
Xin Liao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information security from the
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2007 and 2012, respectively.
He is currently a Professor with the
College of Cyber Science and Technology, Hunan University, where he also serves as the Vice Dean.
He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with
the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also a Research Associate with
The University of Hong Kong. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar with
the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
His current research interests include multimedia forensics, AI security, and watermarking.
He is the Vice Chair of Technical Committee (TC) on Multimedia Security and Forensics of
Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association,
a member of TC on Computer Forensics of the
Chinese Institute of Electronics, and a member of TC on Digital Forensics and Security of the
China Society of Image and Graphics.
He is serving as an Associate Editor for the
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
Chinese homepage（中文主页）: https://grzy.hnu.edu.cn/site/index/liaoxin
Funding
- "Research on key technologies and applications of cross-medium media bridge", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key Project, 01/2023-12/2026, 3.04M RMB, PI
- "Full lifecycle AIGC identification, authentication, and forensics method", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 12/2024-11/2027, 4.6M RMB, PI
- "Research on passive image forensics of operator chains for processing history estimation", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Project, 01/2020-12/2023, 0.71M RMB, PI
- "Multimedia privacy content detection and protection technology", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 12/2022-11/2025, 0.9M RMB, PI
- "Research on distortion function and embedding positions for adaptive image steganography", National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Project, 01/2015-12/2017, 0.25M RMB, PI
- "Data acquisition analysis and databases construction for material simulation and performance optimization", National Key Research and Development Program of China, 07/2018-06/2022, 1.39M RMB, PI
- "Visual media forensics", Hunan Provincial Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars, 01/2024-12/2026, PI
- "AIGC image and video forensics ", Hunan Provincial Key R&D Program, 07/2024-06/2026, PI
Awards
- Included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021–2023) by Elsevier and Stanford University.
- Recipient of the Hunan Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars Fund.
- First Place, IEEE ICASSP Signal Processing Grand Challenge – “COVID-19 Radiomics,” 2021.
- Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2023), a CCF-A conference.
- Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2021 & 2022.
- First Prize, 12th National Conference on Electronic Data Forensics, 2024.
- Recognized as a Top Academic Paper in China’s F5000 Leading Journal Collection, 2024.
- Second Prize, CCF Technological Invention Award, 2022.
- First Prize, CCF Outstanding Teaching Award, Hunan Province, 2022.
- Second Prize, Hunan University Teaching Achievement Award, 2021.
- Recipient of the Hunan University Excellent Teacher Award, 2023.
- Outstanding Teaching Case Award for Professional Degree Graduate Education (Hunan Province, 2021) – “Threat of Deepfake Videos”.
- First and Second Prizes as the supervising instructor in the National College Student Information Security Contests in 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023.
- Outstanding Master’s Thesis Supervisor, Hunan Province (2020, 2021, 2022).
- Supervised students receiving Outstanding Master’s Theses (Hunan Province and Hunan University, 2019–2025).
- Supervised Outstanding Undergraduate Theses (Hunan University, 2017, 2019, 2025).
- Advisor of National First Prize in the China Graduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition, 2024.
- Advisor of the Top-Ranked “Ten Best Class Groups” at Hunan University (Class of 2019), 2022.
- Recipient of the Yuelu Fellowship, Hunan University, 2019.
- Named Distinguished Young Faculty Member, Hunan Province, 2019.
- Excellent Contribution Award, 13th National Information Security Competition, 2020.
- Recipient of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship, 2016.
- Recognized as an Excellent Communist Party Member, Hunan University, 2022.
- Awards for teaching excellence and student mentorship from Hunan University in 2019, 2021, 2023.
Professional Recognitions
- Associate Editor for Columns and Forum, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), start from May 2021.
- Vice Chair, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee, start from Nov. 2024.
- Associate Editor for Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), start from Oct. 2023.
- IEEE Senior Member, start from Oct. 2021.
- Elected Member, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee, start from Oct. 2020.
- Elected Member, lEEE TrustCom, Technical Program Committee, start from Jul. 2025.
- Elected Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Program Committee, start from Jul. 2025.
- Elected Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Computer Forensics Technical Committee, start from Jan. 2015.
- Elected Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Cyberspace Security Technical Committee, start from Jun. 2023.
- Elected Member, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), Digital Forensics and Security Technical Committee, start from May 2019.
- Senior Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), start from Jan. 2015.
- Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF), start from Jan. 2018.
- Senior Member, China Society of Image and Graphics(CSIG), start from May. 2023.
