Joining The Conversation

Voice authentication. Electronics recycling. The fourth industrial revolution. These are some of the topics SEAS faculty and researchers have written about for The Conversation. 


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UB SEAS Articles

Personal touching a smart watch on their wrist.
Stretchable electronic device.
wind turbine.
American Flag.
smartphone.
e-waste.
3D illustration of blood cells, plasmodium causing malaria illness.
brain password illustration.

Meet our Contributors

  • Kemper E. Lewis.
    Kemper E. Lewis, PhD
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

    208 Davis Hall

    kelewis@buffalo.edu

    Dean
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Professor
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Director of the Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Technologies (SMART) CoE
    Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Interests: Large-Scale Systems Design, Design Analytics, Collaborative Design Methods, Decentralized Design, Decision Theory, Decision Networks, Additive Manufacturing, Multiobjective Optimization, Machine Learning for Design and Manufacturing

  • Lovell.
    Jonathan Lovell, PhD
    PhD, University of Toronto

    201 Bonner Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-1020

    Fax: (716) 645-2207

    jflovell@buffalo.edu

    SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
    Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Nanomedicine; phototherapy

  • Albert Titus.
    Albert H. Titus, PhD
    PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

    332D Bonner Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-1019

    Fax: (716) 645-2207

    ahtitus@buffalo.edu

    Associate Vice President for Regulatory Support
    Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
    University at Buffalo
    Professor
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    Adjunct Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Specialty/Research Focus: Analog VLSI Design; silicon-based neuromorphic visual processing systems; neural networks; electronic routing and packaging design; electron beam lithography; sensors; optoelectronics

    332D Bonner Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-1019

    Fax: (716) 645-2207

    ahtitus@buffalo.edu

  • Wenyao Xu.
    Wenyao Xu, PhD
    PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

    330 Davis Hall

    Phone: (716) 645-4748

    wenyaoxu@buffalo.edu

    Professor
    Associate Department Chair
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    Research Topics: Embedded and cyber-physical systems; body sensor networks; biomedical signal analytics; telemedicine; human-computer interaction