CII Featured. on What's Next Podcast
10/18/24

The October 1st showing of the first film in our series, Coded Bias, drew the attention not only of UB faculty and students, but of our local public radio station, WBFO. As part of the local program “What’s Next,” David Castillo, E. Bruce Pitman, and Jasmina Tacheva spoke with Jay Moran...

NEH to fund John Fiege's film project, "Valley of Ashes"
10/18/24

CII member John Fiege received a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support development of a new feature documentary, “The Valley of Ashes,” that focuses on the disposal of solid waste in New York City.

Community Health Speaks
2/18/24

Community Health Speaks is an initiative that has brought together a diverse group of individuals, including dedicated faculty from UB's Center for Information Integrity, Buffalo's key community centers, and residents from various backgrounds. Our mission is clear: to bridge the divide between the scientific community and those from historically marginalized communities. 

Our primary goal is to raise awareness about health disparities and the transformative potential of research within our community. We understand that the power of research can only be fully harnessed when everyone has a seat at the table. That's why we are dedicated to engaging individuals from all walks of life, encouraging them to actively participate in discussions about research designs, implementation strategies, and outcomes.

Journalists turn to AI expert Lyu to spot deepfakes
11/20/23
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The Center for Information Integrity at the University at Buffalo is rooted in the shared conviction that accurate information is required for vigorous public debate within a democracy.

CII is devoted to the identification, amelioration, and combatting of unreliable information that pollutes the public sphere.  Our members take on this existential threat from multidisciplinary approaches derived from fields as varied as history, literature, art, media study, information science, psychology, computer engineering, political science, geography, communication, law, and biomedical sciences.

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  • NEH to fund Fiege's Film Project
    10/18/24
    CII member John Fiege received a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support development of a new feature documentary, “The Valley of Ashes,” that focuses on the disposal of solid waste in New York City.
  • Mark Frank gives talk in Portugal
    10/18/24
    On Oct. 11, 2024, Mark Frank gave a talk at the World Conference on Facial Expression of Emotion on "Expressions within Expressions: Rapport, Deception, and Facial Expression of Emotion.
  • Deepfake-O-Meter
    10/18/24
    As it becomes easier and cheaper to use AI to create fake media, journalists and social media users are faced with the impossible task of trying to determine what to believe. Many turn to experts like CII Co-Director Siwei Lyu, who routinely obliges such requests. But the volume of requests can be overwhelming. That inspired Lyu and his Media Forensics Lab to develop DeepFake-o-Meter, a free, open-source, web-based platform that combines several state-of-the-art, deepfake-detection algorithms.
  • AI Task Force
    6/14/24
    UB’s Generative AI Task Force reported the findings of its yearlong, campuswide initiative to explore the possible uses of generative AI (GAI) in the classroom at a forum last month that also featured a wide-ranging discussion on the technology.
  • McCarron $84K Grant
    6/14/24
    Melissa McCarron was awarded a SUNY IITG grant to develop a mobile app with AI conversation support for culturally competent communication in Spanish across health professions, “Promoting culturally competent communication in Spanish across healthcare professions: A mobile application utilizing AI conversational tools”.
  • New Article by CII's David Castillo, E. Bruce Pitman, and Siwei Lyu
    6/13/24
    "Democracies everywhere are at risk unless we figure out how to promote and reward proactive action in the vital area of information integrity and discourage not just individual misbehavior but self-interested corporate inaction."
  • New Work by Matt Kenyon reflects on Climate Change
    6/13/24
    Climate change is often the target of unreliable information, especially in social media and in politically charged debates. Kenyon's work attempts to provide reliable, fact-based information and education on the topic, while also underscoring the urgency of the situation with visceral, even mythical, imagery.
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World-Class Researchers from 40+ Disciplines Seeking Socio-Technological Solutions to Combat Unreliable and Misleading Information

CII brings together renowned faculty from across the university to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the impact of unreliable information in key areas of public life including public health (e.g., vaccine hesitancy) climate change, and the integrity of democratic processes.

  • Laurene Tumiel-Berhalter
    4/18/24
    Laurene Tumiel Berhalter, Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is Director of Community Translational Research. An epidemiologist by training, she has over 25 years’ experience conducting community-based participatory research and health disparities research to improve chronic disease self-management and cancer prevention among underserved communities.
  • Hongxin Hu
    4/18/24
    Hongxin Hu, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. researches security and privacy, networking and machine learning. His research has been funded by NSF, USDOT, Google, VMware, Amazon, Dell and more. He has published over 100 refereed technical papers, many of which appeared in top tier journals and presented at scientific conferences.
  • Heather Abraham
    11/20/23
    Heather Abraham, Visiting Associate Professor , School of Law , is Director of the UB Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic, a litigation clinic dedicated to enforcing and advancing civil rights and government accountability, with a particular emphasis on fair housing, open government, and freedom of the press.
  • Shambhu Upadhyaya
    11/20/23
    Shambhu Upadhyaya, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education. His research focuses on protecting the United States’ infrastructure from cyber threats. That includes electric power grids, transportation systems, financial networks, military assets and water supplies.
  • Dalia Antionia Caraballo Muller
    11/20/23
    Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, Associate Professor, Latin American and Caribbean History, is a bilingual, multi-cultural, multi-racial researcher and educator. Her twin passions are the study of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the study of transformative learning models in higher education.
  • Jeff Good
    11/20/23
    Jeff Good, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, researches how language choice influences the way a message is received and whether its source is viewed as trustworthy. He is an active member of the UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
  • Heidi Julien
    4/18/24
    Heidi Julien, Professor, Information Science, focuses her research on digital literacy and information behavior. Her work seeks to understand how best to deliver digital literacy education to the public, including how to prepare and support digital literacy instructors, including librarians.
  • Mark Shepard
    4/18/24
    Mark Shepard, Associate Professor, Architecture and Media Study , is an artist, architect and researcher whose work addresses contemporary entanglements. His recent book, There Are No Facts: Attentive algorithms, extractive data practices and the quantification of everyday life (MIT Press), examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world.