Luke Auburn
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Director of Communications for the University of Rochester’s Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. RIT alumnus ‘09, ‘15
Rochester,NY
Joined August 2009
A @UofR computer science PhD student from the @rochci lab spoke to Newsweek about their new AI-powered, speech-based screening tool could help people assess whether they are showing signs of Parkinson's disease at home @ur_engineering #URochesterResearch
newsweek.com
With users' consent, researchers believe popular virtual assistants could also help diagnose people with Parkinson's disease.
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Professor Gaurav Sharma from @UofR talks about the rising threat of QR code-based phishing attacks, or "quishing." He's developing methods to let users know if the link in a QR code is safe or if they need to be wary #URochesterResearch @ur_engineering.
'Quishing' scams dupe millions of Americans as cybercriminals turn the QR code bad
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Could Alexa help people find out if they have Parkinson's disease? Computer scientists at @UofR developed a speech-based AI tool that can screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease #URochesterResearch Story:Study:
nature.com
npj Parkinson's Disease - We introduce a framework for screening Parkinson’s disease (PD) using English pangram utterances. Our dataset includes 1306 participants (392 with PD) from both...
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Led by @UofR's Institute of Optics and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, this initiative looks to advance #ROC and the Finger Lakes as a leader in laser science and technology @ur_engineering @NSF.
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RT @UofR: Each year, over 30 million people have cataract surgery—and Rochester leads the field in developing new approaches to one of the….
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RT @UofR: At Rochester, the bar isn’t raised. It’s reimagined. #EverBetter begins here. 📍. You can make the world Ever Better: https://t….
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The @UofR's Institute of Optics leads one of the semifinalists in this nationwide competition. Science, Technology and Engineering of Lasers and Laser Applications Research (STELLAR) seeks to advance laser technologies in the #ROC and Finger Lakes region. @ur_engineering.
NSF announces the 29 semifinalists of the second NSF Engines competition, spanning critical technologies and applications ranging from energy grid security to maximizing the yield of critical minerals mining to advanced optical sensors.
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Researchers at @UofR and @RITtigers are paving the way for a quantum Internet with a ROQNet, an experimental quantum network connecting the two campuses. @DanaD_onTV takes you behind-the-scenes into the labs of @RITphotonics and @ur_engineering
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RIT and U of R have partnered up for the first quantum communication experiment for upstate universities to explore a new form of secure communication.
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Chemical engineers at @UofR developed a clever new way to study the atomic interactions that happen on the surface of materials so we can develop more energy efficient batteries and other devices @ur_engineering .Story: Paper:
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First-principles-based Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations are powerful tools for studying heterogeneous catalyst systems. However, their high computational cost and large configuration space...
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RT @ur_engineering: Learn more about the Translational Center for Barrier Microphysiological Systems (TraCe-bMPS):
rochester.edu
TraCe-bMPS is one of four NIH-sponsored centers that aims to produce tissue-on-chip devices as FDA-qualified drug development tools.
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The @UofR is one of the universities leading the way on this innovative front thanks to research by Biomedical Engineering Professor James McGrath and his collaborators at @UR_Med #URochesterResearch @ur_engineering.
#NIH aims to expand innovative, human-based technologies to answer tough questions about biomedical research. We’re helping to achieve this with support for 3-D tissue models, like tissue chips! #TissueChips can mimic the structure & function of the heart, kidneys, lungs & other
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RT @CvsUor: New from @edmundlalor in PLOS One: Breaking brain recordings into shorter parts (5–15 sec) helps speech models work better. Thi….
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Background: In recent decades, studies modeling the neural processing of continuous, naturalistic, speech provided new insights into how speech and language are represented in the brain. However, the...
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RT @UofR: LASER TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGH: Rochester researchers at @ur_engineering have designed a new laser smaller than a penny that can m….
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Researchers at @UofR engineered a laser smaller than a penny that could be used for everything from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves #URochesterResearch @ur_engineering @RochesterOptics .Paper: Story:
rochester.edu
The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.
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Earlier this week, @News_8's @LeanneByerwx1 highlighted RoQNET, a new experimental quantum network connecting the @UofR and @RITtigers campuses, and how it could help lead to secure communication #ROC @ur_engineering
rochesterfirst.com
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Quantum communication might sound like something from the distant future or a sci-fi movie — but it’s already here, and it’s poised to transform how we keep information saf…
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RT @UofR: Using time-lapse videos as training data, Rochester computer scientists have taken a evolutionary step in using AI to produce vid….
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Talk about being ahead of the curve. @UofR alum Amanda Stent '01 (PhD) "dived into natural language processing (NLP) when there were barely 20 people in the field. Now, she leads AI initiatives at Bloomberg." @ur_engineering #URochesterResearch.
@business I really enjoyed this interview with Amanda Stent at Bloomberg, one of the world's leading AI experts
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Here's a link to the paper published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Authors included Professor Jiebo Luo and PhD student @vhjf36495872 #URochesterResearch @IEEEsps
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Recent advances in text-to-video generation (T2V) have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing high-quality general videos from textual descriptions. A largely overlooked problem in T2V is that...
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Researchers at @UofR and @RITtigers linked their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network over 11 miles of fiber-optic lines #URochesterResearch @ur_engineering @RITphotonics @OpticaPubsGroup . Story: Paper:
rochester.edu
The Rochester Quantum Network uses single photons to transmit information over dual fiber-optic telecommunications lines.
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Two @ur_engineering professors joined the @NSF Discovery Files Podcast to discuss how QR codes are used for phishing scams and how new technology developed here at @UofR could help prevent these attacks #URochesterResearch
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