Jaric Zola and Tevfik Kosar have won a UB IMPACT award that will provide seed funding for their project titled, 'OneBioStore: Distributed smart storage and scalable algorithms for collaborative biomedical discovery'.
Oliver Kennedy, Geoff Challen, and Luke Ziarek received an NSF planning grant for their project titled, "CI-P: Planning for a Community Infrastructure to Enable Pocket-Scale Data Management Research."
Assistant Professors Oliver Kennedy and Luke Ziarek won an NSF SMALL Award ($494k) for their work on Just-in-Time Data Structures. This funding will support Saurav Singhi (PhD Candidate) and a new PhD student who will start a year from now.
Assistant Professor Aziz Mohaisen has received an NSF EAGER award of $125k to work on understanding the attack vector of privacy-enhancing technologies. The work is a collaborative effort with Guevara Noubir of Northeastern University. The award will support Jeman Park, a PhD student starting this fall.
Associate Professor Kui Ren will present one paper and will co-present another paper with Assistant Professor Wenyao Xu at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2016) in Vienna, Austria.
Five of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' best and brightest teachers and researchers have been named recipients of UB's 2016 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation awards.
Engin Arslan (PhD '16) and Associate Professor Tevfik Kosar's paper, "HARP: Predictive Transfer Optimization Based on Historical Analysis and Real-time Probing", has been accepted at SC16, the top international conference on supercomputing and high performance computing.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
