DeepFakes 2.0 Creation, Detection, and the Future of Synthetic Media

Loveleen Gaur is a teacher-scholar in artificial intelligence, statistics, and data science with more than twenty years of university teaching, research, academic leadership, and curriculum-building experience across four continents. Her work focuses on AI ethics and governance, explainable AI, responsible AI, generative AI, healthcare AI, medical imaging, predictive analytics, and AI policy and regulation. She is currently associated with several international academic and professional roles, including Research Professor at Alliance University, Bengaluru, India; Dissertation Committee Chair in the DBA Program at Golden Gate University Worldwide, San Francisco, USA; Adjunct Professor at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji; Faculty Lead for the Doctoral Program in Deep Tech: AI and Emerging Technologies at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru; Professor of Practice with Paris School of Business; Subject Matter Expert with upGrad; Assessor with Innovate UK, UK Research and Innovation; and Judge for the QS Reimagine Education Awards 2026. She previously served as Professor at Amity University, Noida, India, where she founded postgraduate programs in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics.

She has authored and edited more than twenty research books and has over 150 research outputs, more than 4,500 citations, and over 170 verified peer reviews across leading publishers and journals. She has been recognized in the Elsevier-Stanford list of the World's Top 2% Scientists for 2024 and 2025 and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Frontiers in Neuroscience, Information Sciences, Multimedia Systems, and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.

Her editorial leadership includes serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, published by Taylor & Francis. She has also contributed as a topic and guest editor across Frontiers journals and has served the global research community through extensive peer review, keynote talks, doctoral supervision, thesis examination, and international academic collaborations.