News

  • 7 SEAS faculty, staff receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
    6/24/19

    Three faculty and four staff members from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were among the 25 UB colleagues who have been named recipients of the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, the most recipients from UB in recent history.

  • Jon Snow's deepfake apology video is a parody. But the problem is no laughing matter
    6/18/19
    An article in Fortune about a deepfake video published on YouTube that appears to show Game of Thrones actor Kit Harrington – in character as Jon Snow – apologizing for several mistakes made during the controversial eighth season of the hit HBO show quotes testimony by David Doermann, made during a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week.
  • Experts propose feds use sanctions and cyberweapons to fight deepfakes
    6/18/19
    Experts propose feds use sanctions and cyberweapons to fight deepfakes
  • Tech giants award UB $150,000 to bring ethics into computer science classes
    6/18/19

    Ethics in curriculum will be a requirement as opposed to an afterthought, organizers say.

  • Social media should be accountable for ‘deepfake’ content, intelligence experts say
    6/17/19
    An article on American Military News reports on testimony presented to the House Intelligence Committee by David Doermann, director of UB’s Artificial Intelligence Institute and an Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, about “deepfakes,” artificial intelligence that now allows people to compose entirely made-up videos that show politicians saying things they never said.
  • UB expert to Congress on 'deepfake' deceptions: 'It's likely to get much worse'
    6/14/19
    An article in the Buffalo News reports on testimony presented to the House Intelligence Committee by David Doermann, director of UB’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, about “deepfakes,” artificial intelligence that now allows people to compose entirely made-up videos that show politicians saying things they never said.
  • House holds hearing on "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence amid national security concerns
    6/14/19
    A story on CBS News about experts testifying before the House Intelligence Committee about the threats that “deepfake” videos and other types of artificial intelligence-generated synthetic data pose to the U.S. election system reports witnesses at today’s hearing include David Doermann, Empire Innovation professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute.
  • AI expert David Doermann to testify Thursday before Congress on deepfake videos
    6/7/19

    Deepfakes pose a disinformation threat capable of disrupting the 2020 election, Doermann says.

  • Jaric Zola NSF CAREER Award
    6/4/19
    CSE Assistant Professor Jaric Zola’s award, entitled “Scalable Software and Algorithmic Infrastructure for Probabilistic Graphical Modeling,” seeks to simplify and improve how researchers and practitioners, especially in the biomedical domain, use advanced cyberinfrastructure for data analytics. The project aims to introduce a parallel framework of fundamental operations, like data management or scheduling of computations, to accelerate learning of probabilistic graphical models. By developing high-level and intuitive programming models, Zola aims to make high performance computing more accessible.
  • Shi Li NSF CAREER Award
    6/4/19
    CSE Assistant Professor Shi Li’s project aims to leverage cutting-edge techniques in mathematical programming to advance our understanding of fundamental scheduling problems involving a set of dependent tasks over a collection of machines. Successful completion of the project, entitled “Approximate Scheduling Algorithms via Mathematical Relaxations,” will not only yield improved algorithms for fundamental scheduling problems, but will also enhance our understanding of advanced mathematical relaxation techniques.