News

  • Nils Napp NSF CAREER Award
    6/4/19
    CSE Assistant Professor Nils Napp’s project, entitled “Abstraction Barriers for Embodied Algorithms,” addresses the problem of modeling physical interactions of robots in real-world environments. For example, a robot action can inadvertently change the state of the world, sometimes directly causing accidents or causing problems in future robot-world interactions. This project addresses this problem in the context of robot construction by developing representations of the world state that robots can reason about and use for planning. These allow programmers to treat robots and embodied algorithms and to make robots that reliably operate when modifying the environment and building structures.
  • Karthik Dantu NSF CAREER Award
    6/4/19
    CSE Assistant Professor Karthik Dantu’s project, entitled “Enabling Seamless Vision Sensing in Cloud-Edge Systems,” will develop computing solutions between the cloud and edge/mobile devices to enable more complex visual sensing on mobile/wearable devices for applications in augmented reality, virtual reality, face recognition, activity recognition and others. He will develop software frameworks to allow easier deployment of future visual sensing applications through multi-sensor fusion, providing spatial awareness on edge devices and smartly moving the computation between the edge and the cloud.
  • Altered Pelosi video spotlights new front in disinformation war
    5/31/19
    An article in the Washington Examiner about a video of a speech by Nancy Pelosi that went viral after it was altered to make the House Speaker appear intoxicated interviews David Doermann, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
  • Fighting fake news
    5/20/19
    WAMC-FM’s Academic Minute interviews Kenny Joseph, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, who discussed how we can stop fake news from impacting the 2020 election.
  • Nine engineers receive coveted CAREER awards from National Science Foundation
    5/20/19

    The grants, which total $4.5 million, show that UB is recruiting the very best early-career faculty.

  • Frailty, social isolation and polypharmacy: First pilot projects funded by UB’s Center for Successful Aging tackle these challenges
    5/16/19

    CSA’s mission is to conduct community-responsive research among UB faculty and its community partners to solve challenges facing older adults.

  • Could this be Buffalo's first tech Goliath?
    5/15/19
    A front-page story in the Buffalo News profiles local startup ACV Auctions, which is on track to become Buffalo’s first $1 billion software firm. The articles discusses co-founder Dan Magnuszewski and mentions how he graduated from UB in 2005 with a computer science degree.
  • Lukasiewicz and Odonkor to address fellow students at SEAS Commencement ceremonies
    5/15/19

    Later this week, over 1,300 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences graduates will sit in anticipation, on the cusp of crossing from student life to adulthood, academia to careers, knowledge to application. While they all share the hope and sadness and pride of the moment, each student arrives with their own unique story of how they got there.

  • UB offering two-day crash course in blockchain
    5/15/19

    The course is intended for software developers, entrepreneurs, students, senior managers and more.

  • Two UB undergraduates win prestigious Goldwater scholarships
    5/14/19

    The Goldwater is the premier scholarship in the U.S. for undergraduate students pursuing research careers in STEM fields.