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.
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.
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.
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.
Junsong Yuan, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Visual Computing Lab, received an award for Best Poster at the 5th International HANDS workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision.
An article in The Economist about technology that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat mentions that a team led by Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering.
