Yahoo!Money reported that a team of SEAS students was among the finalists in this year’s Keysight Innovation Challenge, a design competition in which engineering students are tasked to conceptualize Internet of Things devices or networks of devices that provide carbon neutral monitoring at the community or enterprise level.
PolitiFact quoted Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the UB Media Forensic Lab, in an article fact-checking a misleading video that appeared to show President Joe Biden speaking slowly and slurring his speech during his speech on July 4.
VERIFY interviewed Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the UB Media Forensic Lab, for an article that fact checks the false claim that deepfake videos and images can be used to unlock smartphones and other devices that use facial recognition.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has named Moises Sudit as associate dean for research and graduate education, and appointed Alan Rabideau as chair of the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. Both appointments began on July 1, 2022.
Chenhan Xu and Huining Li, both PhD students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won the best student paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics.
A Bloomberg story quoted Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering who studies digital media forensics, in a story about the use of a grandma's voice on Amazon's Alexa.
In an article about a very realistic deepfake video involving actress Margo Robbie, The Daily Mail included comments by Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in a 2021 UB news release concerning a deepfake spotting tool he created.
Five UB students and one alumnus have received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) scholarships, along with five honorable mentions recognizing current students and alumni.
