Dr Abhinav Dhall is an Associate Professor at Monash University, specialising in deepfake detection, affective computing and multimedia forensics. His research focuses on the technical foundations of synthetic media generation and detection, with a particular interest in how manipulation of facial signals and human affect can be used to create more convincing deepfakes. Earlier, he led the Centre for Applied Research in Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Australian National University and has pursued research at the University of Waterloo, Imperial College London and the University of California San Diego. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.