PolitiFact quoted Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the UB Media Forensic Lab, in an article fact-checking a misleading video that appeared to show President Joe Biden speaking slowly and slurring his speech during his speech on July 4.
VERIFY interviewed Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the UB Media Forensic Lab, for an article that fact checks the false claim that deepfake videos and images can be used to unlock smartphones and other devices that use facial recognition.
NBC Today quoted John Crassidis in a report that newly released photos show the damage from an unidentified rocket body that crashed into the moon’s surface and left an “unexpected” double crater.
Futurity report on the UB wastewater pilot project that found that a spike in acetaminophen levels preceded a COVID-19 outbreak in Western New York, suggesting that levels of medications in wastewater could add another level to disease monitoring efforts. Ian Bradley and Yinyin Ye are co-authors of the study.
The website Hackster reports on new research led by Shenqiang Ren, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and of chemistry, and a core faculty member in the UB RENEW Institute, which focuses on next-generation battery designs.
WGRZ reports on UB’s plans for a new $102 million building on North Campus to accommodate the growth of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.