University at Buffalo (UB)
An NSF & IES AI Institute for Transforming Education for Children with Speech and Language Processing Challenges

Media Mentions

2026 Media Mentions

2025 Media Mentions

BBVA - "Frontiers of Knowledge Award Goes to Anil Jain and Michael I. Jordan for Their Core Contributions in Developing Biometrics and AI" (1/25)

YouTube - "AI is a Game Changer for Students with Disabilities" (2/24)

ICAAD - "Executive Committee" (3/20)

UBNow - "Empire AI Projects Showcase UB’s Commitment to Harnessing AI for the Public Good" (3/24)

UBNow - "AI to Screen for Language and Speech Disorders Among Children" (4/7)

UBNow - "AI-powered Speech Analysis Tool Wins UB Entrepreneurship Competition" (4/29)

Human-Centered Design & Engineering - "HCDE Impact: Helping Kids Think Critically About AI" (5/15)

UBNow - "Key to Spotting Dyslexia Early Could be AI-powered Handwriting Analysis" (5/16)

EdSurge - "Researchers Turn to AI to Help Diagnose Children’s Speech Disorders" (5/28)

Happiest Health - "AI Analyses Handwriting to Spot Early Dyslexia Signs: Study" (5/30)

UB GSE Magazine Learn - "Anything But Artificial" (6/24)

UW News - "This Puzzle Game Shows Kids How They're Smarter Than AI" (7/1)

WIVB 4 Buffalo - "Buffalo Brief: Mon 070725" (7/7)

Cline Center for Advancing Research - "The David F. Linowes Fellows Program" (7/16)

Washington State Academy of Sciences - "36 New Members Elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences" (7/17)

Seattle Times - "UW Game Shows Kids They are Smarter Than AI" (7/24)

UBNow - "SUNY Chancellor Marvels at Speed of UB’s Empire AI-supported Research" (8/15)

Buffalo News - "International Enrollment Decline Cuts UB Tuition Revenue, but Not Expected to Upend Overall Numbers" (8/25)

UB Office of the Provost - "SUNY Chancellor Marvels at Sheer Speed of UB’s Empire AI-Supported Research" (8/28)

UBNow - "Hochul Gets Update on UB's AI Programs" (9/8)

UBNow - "Tripathi to Step Down as UB President" (9/18)

The Academic Minute - "Venu Govindaraju, University at Buffalo – Training AI to Spot Dyslexia" (9/25)

Devdiscourse - "AI in the Classroom: Opportunities and Risks for Students with Special Education Needs" (9/26)

UB News Center - "Abramovich Named to Inaugural Class of SUNY AI for the Public Good Fellows" (10/2)

American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation - "Student Research Grant in Early Childhood Language Development Recipients" (10/8)

LinkedIn - "Cracking the Code" (10/10)

Apple Podcasts - "Beyond ChatGPT: Critical Thinking in the Age of AI" (10/16)

PBS - "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence" (10/27)

Stanford Report - "How AI Could Transform Speech Therapy for Children" (10/27)

IEEE Council on Electronic Deisgn Automation - "Jinjun Xiong" (11/1)

New America - "Blueprints for the Future: How Research, Policy, and Innovation Can Grow Readers in the Age of AI" (11/19)

Buffalo News - "The Editorial Board: Safeguards for the Most Powerful AI Systems are Just Common Sense" (11/25)

IEEE - "IEEE Fellow Class of 2026" (12/10)

UBNow - "Empire AI Powers Bold New Research at UB, From surgery to Climate Science" (12/15)

UBNow - "UB’s AI Momentum Continues" (12/18)

UBNow - "UB Solidifies Leadership in AI, Data Science in 2025" (12/19)

2024 Media Mentions

2026 Media Mentions

Audience gathered in auditorium for Sierra Nevada Forums.
Speech study research team from The University of Texas at El Paso. From left to right: Nigel Ward, Ph.D., and research assistants Raul Gomez and Javier Vazquez.
Inside Higher Ed - US AI Summit titled "Ensuring AI for the public good" taking place between June third and fourth in Buffalo, New York.
E-NYSSA Achieving Joy and Masteru in Public Schools. E-NYSSA Podcast. Available on your favorite podcast platform. Apple, Spotify, Audacy, Amazon, Stitcher, et cetera.
UB researchers are developing an AI-powered imaging system to monitor wounds and other skin conditions.
RNA clusters (green colored) gradually disassembling within biomolecular condensates (magenta colored).

January 6, 2026 - 

A looks back at UB's research, creative activities in 2025                                

Cheryl Larson, M.A., CCC-SLP; Abbie Olszewski, Ph.D., CCC-SLP; & Lindsay Diamond, Ph.D pose at University at Nevada, Reno.
A student works draws an image on a computer.
Heather Amistani, Denielle Oliva and Behnoush Hatami pose with Manuel, a robot in David Feil-Seifer's lab.

April 29, 2026 - 

Robotics program blends versatility, creativity and hands-on creation                     

Venu Govindaraju stands beside text which reads Insights from Venu Govindaraju.
Logos from the Ai2 Research.

January 15, 2026 - 

Ai2

 

UB President Satish Tripathi talks with Bridget Burns and Sara Custer on the Weekly Wisdom podcast.
Students present their work to guests during a poster session.

March 18, 2026 - 

Five myths about AI and education                                         

Alison Hendricks, associate professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, discusses her work at the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education.
UB researchers are developing an AI-powered imaging system to monitor wounds and other skin conditions.