# Rohini Srihari, University at Buffalo - AI Can Give Voice to People Who Cannot Speak

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Podcast: [The Academic Minute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-academic-minute-1102038)
Published: 2026-06-18T04:01:00+00:00
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On University at Buffalo Week: Can we use AI to help give those with motor neuron diseases their voices back? Rohini Srihari , professor of computer science and engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, looks to do so. Faculty Bios: Rohini Srihari is a scientist, educator and entrepreneur. A professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, Srihari’s research and teaching focuses on artificial intelligence for social good, conversational AI, deep learning in natural language processing and other fields. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity and other agencies. She has worked extensively with the U.S. government in developing innovative multilingual text mining solutions. Srihari’s recent research focuses on advancing the state-of-the-art in socialbots capable of engaging in empathetic, interesting and purposeful conversations. This also involves building trustworthy socialbots for combating disinformation, assisting the disabled and other purposes. She has published over 100 research papers in computer science journals and conference proceedings. Her Google Scholar h-index is 40. She is also the author of two U.S. patents, one on multilingual text mining. She has served as Chief Data Scientist at PeaceTech Lab, a non-profit incubated within the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. She has also founded and directed technology start-ups, focusing on “big data” analytics solutions for various markets. Two of these companies were subsequently acquired by large media analytics companies. Srihari received her B. Math degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and her PhD…

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