SEAS in the News

  • Medical devices aspire to ditch batteries
    6/12/17
    An article in The Scientist reports on research by Amin Karami, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, to develop systems that harness kinetic energy from a patient’s heart beat to power battery-free leadless pacemakers, eliminating the need to replace pacemakers that lose battery power after seven or eight years.
  • Your phone compass can stop voice hacks for this scientific reason
    6/12/17
    An article on  Inverse, an online magazine geared to young millennial men, reports that a team of UB engineers has created an app that stops voice hacking of voice-based smartphone apps, and quotes Kui Ren, professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Research Lab.
  • Engineers are developing a battery-free pacemaker
    6/8/17

    M. Amin Karami talks to The Scientist about his work developing a pacemaker that harnesses kinetic energy from a patient’s heart beat.

  • App could keep hackers from stealing your voice
    6/7/17

    An article on Futurity reports that a team of UB engineers has created an app that stops voice hacking of voice-based smartphone apps, and quotes Kui Ren, professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Research Lab.

  • Siri, WeChat and other apps may put you at risk of voice hacking: study
    6/6/17
    A story on New Delhi’s NDTV, one of the largest  television companies in India, reports that a team of UB engineers has created an app that stops voice hacking of voice-based smartphone apps, and quotes Kui Ren, professor of computer science and engineering and director of the Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Research Lab.
  • University at Buffalo expert on changing world of cybersecurity
    6/2/17
    An article in Business First interviews Shambhu Upadhyaya, professor of computer science and engineering, about the WannaCry ransomware attack, what’s next in internet hacking and some of the issues with defending internet systems.