SEAS in the News

A story on WIVB-TV about safeguarding the nation’s nuclear weapons from emerging cyber threats interviews Shambu Upadhyaya, professor of computer science and an expert in cybersecurity.

A story on WGRZ-TV about the poor condition of upstate bridges reports a review of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory database found 51 bridges in Western New York received a sufficiency score of 40 or less out of 100, and interviews Jerome O’Connor, executive director of UB’s Institute of Bridge Engineering.

An article on BuiltWorlds about the use on job-site robotics interviews Michael Silver, assistant professor of architecture and a member of the Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART) program at UB.

An article in Smart Industry interviews Tim Leyh, executive director of UB’s Center for Industrial Effectiveness, about a massive open online course focused on using data to make American factories more efficient and competitive.

A story on WIVB-TV about the 2017 Erie Hack competition aimed at using technology to improve problems like pollution, invasive species and water quality in Lake Erie interviews Ryan McPherson, UB’s chief sustainability officer, as well as UB students Isabel Hall, Mike Brown and George Sklivanitis.

An article about plans by Verizon to install a new kind of wireless transmitters called “small cells” to provide better coverage in densely populated areas interviews Zhi Sun, assistant professor of electrical engineering.