Maty(as) Bohacek
Stanford, CA, USA
I am a student at Stanford University with a passion for AI research. Advised by Professor Hany Farid from UC Berkeley, I focus on generative AI, deepfake detection, and other problems at the intersection of AI and media forensics. My full name is Matyas, but I go by Maty.
News
(October 2024) Offered commentary for the CBC.
(October 2024) Discussed my research on Ö1.
(October 2024) Wrote a commentary for WIRED.
(October 2024) Delivered a talk and joined a panel on the role of AI in disinformation at the EU DisinfoLab conference in Riga, Latvia.
(September 2024) Delivered a lighting talk at the SIO Trust & Safety Research conference at Stanford.
See full archive here.
Upcoming
(October 2024) Will present joint work with Nacho Villanova at DCMI 2024.
(October 2024) Will co-present work led by Vaclav Knapp at ASSETS 2024.
(November 2024) Will deliver a guest lecture in Stanford’s DATASCI 194D.
(November 2024) Will join a panel at the Aspen Institute’s Annual Conference in Prague, Czechia.
(November 2024) Will deliver a talk at the FPY Conference in Prague, Czechia.
Recent Publications & Preprints
(June 2024) Bohacek M. & Farid H. Lost in Translation: Lip-Sync Deepfake Detection from Audio-Video Mismatch. CVPR 2024 Workshop on Media Forensics.
(June 2024) Bohacek M. & Bravansky M. When XGBoost Outperforms GPT-4 on Text Classification: A Case Study. NAACL 2024 TrustNLP Workshop.
(June 2024) Bohacek M. Evaluation of Concept Erasing for Signature Artistic Styles in Diffusion Models. C&C 2024.
(June 2024) Bohacek M. Slovakia as the Precursor to Deepfake-Enabled Election Interference: Lessons Learned and Pathways Forward. ICWSM 2024 Workshop on Digital State Sponsored Disinformation and Propaganda.
(December 2023) Bohacek M. & Farid H. The making of an AI news anchor—and its implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
(November 2023) Bohacek M. & Farid H. Nepotistically Trained Generative-AI Models Collapse. ArXiv, abs/2311.12202.
For a complete list of my academic publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.
Contact & Misc.
Email: maty (at) stanford (dot) edu
Resume (coming soon)