Robert Chung is an expert on color perception, color measurement, color imaging, color management system, process control, quality management, gravure process, and digital color imaging trends.

He is the 2004 Gravure Research Professor and in 1997 was a Gravure Education Foundation Exchange Professor with the Gravure Education Foundation in Rochester, N.Y. Chung received an Education Award of Excellence from the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1991.

He holds a master's in Printing Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology (1976) and a B.A. in Industrial Technology from Eastern Washington University (1972).

Chung has had more than 30 technical papers published in conference proceedings and technical journals on the subject of color management and process control; and has extensive experience in process control and color management practices in a variety of process color printing, e.g., offset, gravure and digital printing processes.

Frank Cost was named interim dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences in July 2009. He is a long-time member of the RIT community, graduating from RIT in 1987 with a master's degree in computer science.

He has a unique perspective on the graphic communications industry that has evolved from his own intellectual and experiential roots in photography, journalism, history, computing and printing technology.

His current research focuses on the impact of digital technology and digital culture on traditional forms of creative expression. His work exploring innovative uses for digitally produced books has helped RIT to attract funding for a number of research and development projects.

In 2001, Cost was a founding co-director, along with professor Patricia Sorce, of the Printing Industry Center at RIT. Cost is the author of the Pocket Guide to the Digital Printing, published by Delmar Thomson Learning, and The New Medium of Print: Material Communication in the Internet Age, , published by the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press.

Frank Romano is administrative chair of RIT's School of Printing Management and Sciences. He is a world-renowned expert on multi-media, graphic communications, printing, publishing and electronic publishing. Romano has closely analyzed the future of newspapers, magazines, libraries and bookstores in a digital age. He is involved in issues surrounding the Internet including copyright and trademark issues, graphics, electronic publishing and publishing on the World Wide Web, and Internet commerce. Romano was involved in the development of an electronic version of the Congressional Record.