News

Kemper Lewis named dean of UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
4/1/20

A UB faculty member since 1996, Lewis has steadily risen through the ranks of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

U.S. News ranks UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences No. 2 in the Northeast
3/31/20

The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was ranked second on the list of top public engineering schools in the northeast, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Student develops calming apps
3/27/20

Computer science student Anant Patni hopes Pulse and Peaceful Sounds will help relief stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who belongs in the life raft?
3/11/20

Five UB faculty members argue their discipline is best able to rebuild society after a nuclear disaster at the annual Life Raft Debate.

Five engineering and applied sciences PhD students to participate in the Three Minute Thesis Competition
3/5/20

Extending the battery life of drones and using AI to assess damaged bridges are just a few of the research topics that doctoral students from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will present at this year’s Three Minute Thesis Competition.

Two engineering and applied sciences faculty receive Meyerson mentoring awards
3/2/20

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty members Lora Cavuoto and Wenyao Xu are among this year’s winners of the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, the highest university award for undergraduate mentoring.

Ontology meeting at UB seeks to create standards for digital manufacturing
2/28/20

Initiative would allow software to function cooperatively across the entire domain of digital manufacturing.

A mother’s warning for parents about the TikTok app
2/20/20
In a WKBW-TV story about the TikTok app and its use by online predators despite its image as a child-friendly platform, Oliver Kennedy, associate professor of computer science and engineering, advised parents to be vigilant about what their children are downloading.
UB receives $800,000 NSF/Amazon grant to improve AI fairness in foster care
2/3/20

Researchers will work toward developing a computational approach for delivering preventive services.

What is deepfake technology? How to spot a deepfake
1/28/20
An article on FedTech about how to spot deepfakes references testimony that David Doermann, director of the UB Artificial Intelligence Institute and Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, provided during a U.S. House of Representatives committee meeting last summer.