Faculty Experts

University at Buffalo faculty experts can provide commentary and analysis on topics in the news. For help finding a faculty expert, contact UB Media Relations at 716-645-6969 or ub-news@buffalo.edu.

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Artificial Intelligence Experts

University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss all aspects of artificial intelligence, including its history, societal implications and applications. View UB experts on artificial intelligence.

Climate Change Experts

University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss all aspects of climate change, including its causes, solutions and the diverse ways in which people experience it. View UB experts on climate change.

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Driven to Discover: A podcast featuring UB experts

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  • Rohini Srihari on Making Chatbots Better
    11/4/25
    Not all chatbots are created equal. Some, like those used in customer service, are relatively simple. Others—like the systems Rohini Srihari builds—can take on far more complex tasks, such as giving voice to someone with ALS who has lost the ability to speak. In this episode, Srihari, an artificial intelligence pioneer, shares how she combines her love of language with computer science to create AI-based tools that not only help people with motor neuron diseases communicate, but also address the nation’s mental health crisis, predict the flow of refugees, and even assist choreographers in creating new works. As she tells host Cory Nealon, this work represents just the beginning of how AI can be harnessed for the public good.
  • Phillips Stevens on Magic and Witchcraft
    10/7/25
    An act of sorcery at a school table tennis match in Nigeria led Phillips Stevens to a 50-year anthropology career that dove deep into magic and witchcraft. In this episode, Stevens talks with host Tom Dinki about why belief in the supernatural persists in the modern world, and how it may ultimately be what makes us human.
  • Joshua Lynch on Combatting the Opioid Crisis
    9/9/25
    As a young emergency medicine doctor, Joshua Lynch was struck by how unprepared ERs were to help patients with opioid use disorder. After losing family members to overdose, he knew he had to act. In this episode, he shares how MATTERS—the treatment program he founded—is becoming a national model in the fight against the opioid epidemic.
  • Nick Henshue on Earthworm Ecology
    5/6/25
    Nick Henshue was a classic “nature kid” as a child. Now he’s an associate teaching professor of ecology and an expert in all things earthworm. In this episode, he explains why earthworms are a menace to forests, how trees talk to each other, and what’s behind the “jumping” earthworm’s name.

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