Artificial Intelligence News
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November 9, 2026
RIT alumni are shaping new careers: Life cycle assessment manager
Hema Madaka provides clients with suggestions to redesign supply chains, set goals with their suppliers, and helps clients build supplier engagement programs around renewable energy.
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November 9, 2026
RIT alumni are shaping new careers: Concierge nursing executive
Olivia Svrchek has followed a career path outside of traditional healthcare. She is reframing her profession in an era of unprecedented health technology, remote nursing opportunities, and personalized healthcare options for aging well.
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November 9, 2026
RIT alumni are shaping new careers: Agentic AI engineer
Sohil Shah leads development of an agentic AI system that is helping PayPal’s reliability engineering team operate at a new level.
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November 5, 2026
RIT professor rethinks AI’s role in qualitative research
Assistant Professor Ha-Kyung Hidy Kong is exploring how artificial intelligence and data visualization can be used to help researchers analyze qualitative data by identifying patterns, reducing workload, and retaining control over their findings.
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November 2, 2026
RIT receives grant to expand access to computing education
RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to expand access to computing and information technology education for secondary and post-secondary students.
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October 29, 2026
RIT alumna develops hands-free tech at Meta
As a technical program manager at Meta, Dorrene Brown ’13 (software engineering) leads software, firmware, and artificial intelligence teams developing cutting-edge devices.
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October 29, 2026
RIT AI grad student's space defense startup acquired by CesiumAstro
Ryan Kenward leverages machine learning to reduce satellite collision risk. 1Aardvark, the space and missile defense software company he founded, was recently acquired by CesiumAstro.
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October 23, 2026
Student spotlight: RIT AI grad student helps humans and robots communicate
Victor Lockwood is gaining hands-on lab experience with the Nao robot, building conversational programs that allow users to chat with the robot verbally.
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October 16, 2026
RIT club connects students with growing geospatial field
Tigers of Geographic Information and Research is more than a geography club, although its members do love maps. Geographic information systems technology is used to analyze and visualize location-based data, with applications varying from urban planning and environmental management to crime analysis.
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October 14, 2026
Upstate university students, faculty address the issues they're facing with AI
Spectrum News speaks with Garret Arcoraci, principal lecturer in the School of Information, and students in RIT's artificial intelligence program about AI ethics, potential risks, government oversight, and preparing students to develop and use the technology responsibly.
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October 9, 2026
‘Make this face look gay’: AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical ‘gay,’ ‘straight’ or ‘criminal’ features
The Conversation features an essay by RIT software engineering professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh examining research revealing how generative AI models reinforce stereotypes about sexual orientation, race, and criminality when altering images, raising concerns about bias and algorithmic profiling.
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October 9, 2026
RIT presents at the RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference
The Center for Innovation in Manufacturing and Sustainability (CIMS) at RIT and the Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC) recently hosted the 9th annual RIC-RIT World Remanufacturing Conference in Charlotte, N.C.