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Researchers have received $8.3 million in federal grants to use AI and digital technologies to improve health care and accessibility.

The Dean’s Award for Achievement is the highest honor presented by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Maha Mir, Sai Harshita Bhandarua and Krish Vasantkumar Shah are the class of 2026 student commencement speakers. 

Full Fact sought the expertise of Siwei Lyu in a fact check article about an AI-generated clip of JFK admonishing Israel. 

WGRZ-TV interviewed UB President Satish Tripathi who, after 15 years of leading the university, will step down in July and return to his faculty position in SEAS.

Europe Says also utilized the DeepFake-O-Meter to prove that images showing the Italian Prime Minister in reportedly tense situations with the Israeli Prime Minister were AI generated. 

Agence France-Presse utilized the DeepFake-O-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to discredit a video claiming to show a doctor slapping an Indian official.

UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm; leads to work with Apple and Google.

Public Source named the DeepFake-O-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, as a helpful source for determining if videos are AI deepfakes.

Medium ranked UB's Blockchain Basics Coursera course, taught by Bina Ramamurthy, as No. 3 out of 30 sampled courses.