In the Media

An article in Venture Beat reported that a team of students from UB finished third in Amazon’s annual Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge. The team was led by computer science and engineering professor Rohini Srihari.

City & State named Venu Govindaraju, UB vice president for research and economic development, and Norma Nowak, executive director of UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, to its Life Sciences Power 50 list of influential New Yorkers in the life sciences. They share the No. 10 spot.

Analytics India magazine quoted Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science, for a story on attempts to outwit facial recognition software.

A Business Insider story on the five most important programming skills companies seek in job applicants mentioned UB as being among the top universities teaching at least two of the five sought after computer languages: Python, Java, JavaScript. SQL and the Rest API.

The popular Turkish news website Molatik reports on how to detect deepfake images references a reseach study led by UB computer scientist Siwei Lyu.

Several tech news outlets from India, including India Education Diary, The Cambay Post and News Karnataka, highlighted Venu Govindaraju, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, who addressed a symposium on artificial intelligence and social good.

India’s Education World reports that Venu Govindaraju, UB vice president for research and economic development and SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, will deliver one of the Distinguished Talks at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University’s upcoming international symposium on “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good.”

An article on The Face about the “best online crypto courses” includes Smart Contracts offered by Bina Ramamurhty, teaching professor of computer science at UB, through Coursera.