Applied Radiology reports that UB has received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new, portable breast-imaging system that has the potential to better identify breast cancer.
Optics.org published an item on research led by Jun Xia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, whose team has developed a technique that uses photoacoustic tomography to map the precise network of blood vessels in a subject's fingers in 3D. The technology has potential applications in biometric authentication.
The Buffalo News published an obituary of Eli Ruckenstein, a UB faculty member and world-renowned chemical engineer who was presented with the U.S. National Medal of Science by President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony in 1999.
A story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition about the lack of “deepfakes” this presidential election quotes David Doermann, director of UB’s Artificial Intelligence Institute.
Several scientific media outlets, including Bioengineer, published the research findings of Jun Xia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, that showed biometric authentication can replace the need for passwords.
The Wall Street Journal spoke to Jun Zhuang, professor of industrial and systems engineering, about how companies are using “war games” to prepare for external threats like pandemics, trade wars, political uncertainty and others.