Improving the quality and usability of socialbots, such as Amazon Echo’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, is the mission of a University at Buffalo team taking part in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge.
Baicheng Chen, a senior computer science major, has been selected as a finalist for the Computing Research Association's 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.
A new study led by a UB researcher has identified how specific communication among different brain regions, known as brain connectivity, can serve as a biomarker for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Newsy reported that with deepfake videos becoming much harder to detect, the Defense Department is funding researchers like Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, in what it called a high-tech arms race to outsmart media manipulators.
Forbes reports that UB researchers are developing a robotic system that relies on machine learning and other technologies to autonomously sort plastics, as well as environmentally responsible solvents that breakdown plastics to make them easier to reuse.
WGRZ-TV featured Ken Regan, associate professor of computer science and engineering, in a story about the rise of online cheating in chess competitions during the pandemic.
Computer engineer Junsong Yuan has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to "human behavior understanding and video analytics."