[5] The citation reads: "To Ben Cole for the design of the Kali Destruction System, to Eric Parker for the development of the Digital Molecular Matter toolkit, and to James O’Brien for his influential research on the finite element methods that served as a foundation for these tools.

The combined innovations in Kali and DMM provide artists with an intuitive, art-directable system for the creation of scalable and realistic fracture and deformation simulations.

He has frequently worked with news organizations on exposing fake or altered photographs,[7][8][9][10] as well as images created by generative artificial intelligence software.

[11][12] His methods have been used to expose fabrication of medical research records [13] prosecute child pornographers, validate evidentiary videos,[14][15] and rule out conspiracy theories relating to photographs of the Moon landing.

[16][17] In response to their work debunking assertions that the shadows in photos of the 1969 Moon Landing[18][19][20] and of Lee Harvey Oswald, coauthor Hany Farid has been accused by conspiracy theorists of being a time-traveling CIA operative.