Daniel Moreira

Dr. Daniel Moreira is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on applying techniques from Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Media Forensics to enhance scientific integrity and combat misinformation. He holds a PhD from the University of Campinas (Brazil), with postdoctoral experience at the University of Notre Dame's CVRL lab.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science (2016), University of Campinas
• MSc in Computer Science (2008), Federal University of Pernambuco
• BSc in Computer Science (2006), Federal University of Pará

Research Interests:

• Media Forensics: Developing tools to detect synthetic content and paper mill fraud
• Biometrics: Post-mortem iris recognition and human-machine collaboration
• Scientific Integrity: Image provenance analysis for combating academic misconduct
• Computer Vision: Provenance tracking and manipulation localization

Awards include the 2025 St. Ignatius Loyola Teaching Award and the 2017 Best Brazilian PhD Dissertation. He co-leads projects like Sci-Int (scientific integrity analysis) and SemaFor (semantic forensic analysis), with funding from NSF, DARPA, and HHS.

Teaching includes courses on Machine Learning, Biometrics, and shell scripting at Loyola. He actively reviews for major journals/conferences like IEEE TIFS, CVPR, and ECCV, and serves as an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and IEEE Security & Privacy.