Eleven faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are among those who were honored at “An Anthology of Recognition: The Sixth Salute to UB Authors.”
First-year PhD student Mike Wehar (PhD '17) has been awarded the 2014 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Best Student ICALP Paper award for his paper titled, "Hardness Results for Intersection Non-Emptiness".
Aidong Zhang, Chair, Computer Science and Engineering, was appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor. She is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of databases, multimedia databases and bioinformatics.
Yavuz Selim Yilmaz (PhD '15), Bahadir Ismail Aydin (PhD '15), and Murat Demirbas received the outstanding paper award at the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014) for their paper titled, "Targeted Question Answering on Smartphones Utilizing App Based User Classification".
About 70 college students descended on Davis Hall over the weekend of April 5-6, to compete in UB Hacking 2014, a 24-hour competition to see who could complete the best hacks.
Steven Ko, Assistant Professor and member of the Networked Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received a 2014 NSF CAREER award.
Karthik Dantu owns the vision component of the RoboBee Initiative, led by the National Science Foundation and Harvard University. The "eyes" that Dr. Dantu is integrating are laser-powered sensors that enable the mechanical bees to orient themselves in space.
An article on PhysOrg reports UB has received a $584,469 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a tool designed to work with the existing computing infrastructure to boost data transfer speeds by more than 10 times, and quotes Tevfik Kosar, associate professor of computer science.
Ken Regan develops algorithms that detect cheating in chess games. His software compares a player's moves to a database of the player's typical gameplay, then makes an assessment of the statistical likelihood of cheating. Dr. Regan frequently consults at international chess matches.
Wenyao Xu leads an NSF-funded program that detects 3D printing data security vulnerabilities by using smart phones to analyze electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Kui Ren and Chi Zhou are co-authors.
Wenyao Xu created AutoDietary—software that tracks the unique sounds produced by food as people chew it. AutoDietary, placed near the throat by a necklace delivery system developed at China's Northeastern University, helps users measure their caloric intake.
