Mark G. Frank is a professor in the Communication Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he served as chair from 2015-2021, and since then has been the Faculty Athletic Representative. He was born and raised in Buffalo and is a UB Alumnus (Psychology). Dr. Frank received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University in 1989, and afterward he received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to do postdoctoral research in the Psychiatry Department at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School.  In 1992 he joined the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he worked for 4 years until he joined the Communication Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  In 2005 he went full circle and accepted a position offered by the University of Buffalo Communication Department, where he created and directs the Communication Science Center.  He has published research papers on facial expressions, emotion, interpersonal deception, and also violence in extremist groups, and in 2016 won the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.  He has had research funding from The National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security, and the US Department of Defense to examine deception and hidden emotion behaviors in checkpoint, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism situations, as well as aggression in extremist groups.  He is also the co-developer of a patented automated computer system to read facial expressions, for which he won a Visionary Innovator Award from the University at Buffalo. He has used these findings to lecture, consult with and train virtually all US Federal Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, as well as local/state and select foreign democratic countries.  He is also one of the original members of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit’s Terrorism Research and Analysis Project.  He has presented briefings on deception and counter-terrorism to the US Congress as well as the US National Academies of Sciences.  He has also given workshops to the US Federal Judiciary, various state Courts, and foreign judges and magistrates. He was selected to present 12 recorded lectures for the Great Courses series called Understanding Nonverbal Communication, and was recently a featured expert on the Curiosity Stream 6-part series called Inside the mind of a con artist. Finally, he has appeared in over 100 print, radio, and television appearances to talk about his work.
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