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AI-powered speech analysis tool wins UB entrepreneurship competition
4/25/25
SEAS PhD students Wei Bo (CSE) and Shuwei Hou (CSE) took first place at UB’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition for their company, SATE.
Fact Check: Pantsless Pose NOT Authentic Photo of Former New Mexico Magistrate Joel Cano, Charged With Hiding Illegal Alien
4/25/25
Lead Stories utilized the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to prove that a circulating image of a former New Mexico Magistrate Judge standing with a Venezuelan man was AI-generated.
Study: New imaging tech uses radar and AI to see through bandages, monitor wounds
4/24/25
Enables medical professionals to observe skin without removing dressings; aims to reduce secondary infections and save time for caregivers.
Sky's tech reporter was deepfaked for an AI-powered scam - so she investigated
4/21/25
Sky News quoted Siwei Lyu in an article about a fake video depicting the CEO of Apple promoting gambling apps
After living in England and California, he picked Buffalo to launch his business
4/18/25
Buffalo Business First reported that five UB students pursuing master’s degrees in computer science and engineering are helping to build an app, called Qu Anytime.
Atri Rudra receives Test of Time Award
4/17/25
The award recognizes a paper that was published in the PODS proceedings 10 years prior that has had the most impact to research or practice over the previous decade.
Two UB students awarded prestigious Goldwater scholarships
4/17/25
Goldwater scholarships are the country’s most competitive research scholarship offered to undergraduate STEM students.
Fabricated news article frames Duterte's arrest as obstacle to Russia-Ukraine ceasefire
4/10/25
Agence France-Presse and Snopes utilized UB’s DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to determine that an audio clip of Elon Musk sobbing to Donald Trump about Tesla's woes was likely AI-generated.
Computer science PhD recognized as rising star for work on AI and health monitoring systems
4/9/25
Wei Bo, a PhD student in computer science and engineering, has been recognized as a CPS Rising Star. Her research incorporates AI with health technologies.
AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system
4/8/25
Earth featured Wenyao Xu in an article about the uniqueness of human fingerprints.

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