A team of computer science and engineering graduate students placed 5th worldwide and 1st in the United States, in the DEFCON AutoDriving Capture the Flag competition organized by Baidu.
The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences welcomed eight new experts to it growing roster of more than 250 full-time faculty.
Civil engineering alumnus Joe Mannarino (PhD ’01, MBA ’90, BS ’88) and his company Buffalo Construction Consultants, Inc. won UB’s Inaugural Fast 46 Competition.
Jun Zhuang was named the Morton C. Frank Professor, which is awarded to an outstanding industrial and systems engineering faculty member working within the field of operations research.
SUNY Distinguished Professor David A. Kofke has been named the first Walter E. Schmid Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
SUNY Distinguished Professor and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor Amit Goyal is the principal investigator on a research project funded by the Office of Naval Research that has the potential to revolutionize the electric grid of the 21st century.
Allison Brashear, dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, has been appointed vice president for health sciences at UB and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
To create more inclusive college classrooms that recognize the neurodiversity of students, UB has received a $293,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build micro-credential training courses for computer science faculty.
