SEAS in the News

The New York State School Board Association reported that a senior from Williamsville North High School worked alongside Jun Xia and other UB researchers to explore the use of lasers and AI to screen for breast cancer.

South Florida Hospital News reported on a $2 million federal grant for UB and Florida Atlantic University to establish a joint Florida–New York Air Force University Center that will advance research and education in secure, resilient, and software-programmable wireless networks.

Agence France-Presse utilized the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to discredit an AI-generated image of a bust honoring a teenager murdered during the war on drugs in the Philippines. 

The Associated Press sought the perspective of John Crassidis for an article about Space X founder Elon Musk’s plan to establish solar-powered data centers on satellites in space. 

Scripps News interviewed Siwei Lyu about the increasingly concerning development of deepfakes, which can now function in real-time. 

Earth.com featured research by John Atkinson on the impact of cigarette filters on the microplastics epidemic.