Chris Bregler is a Director and Principal Scientist at Google AI where he is leading media integrity efforts and other initiatives to combat disinformation.  He has been tracking DeepFakes from its early inception, starting as the inventor of the landmark project VideoRewrite, which showed how to rewrite the history of the John F. Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Speech. Subsequently he worked on various early pre-DeepFakes digital-double projects at Disney (for Gemini Man), ESC fx (for the Matrix), and Lucasfilm ILM. In 2016 he received an Academy Award in the Oscar’s Science and Technology category for his visual effects work including performance capture techniques for digital doubles in Star Wars and other feature films. His other awards include the IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision that Have Withstood the Test of Time," the Olympus Prize, and grants from the National Science Foundation, Packard Foundation, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, U.S. Navy, U.S. Airforce, and other agencies. Formerly a professor at New York University and Stanford University, he was named Stanford Joyce Faculty Fellow, Terman Fellow, and Sloan Research Fellow. In addition to working for several companies including Hewlett Packard, Interval, Disney Feature Animation, LucasFilm's ILM, and the New York Times, he was the executive producer of squid-ball.com, for which he built the world's largest real-time motion capture volume. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.