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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.