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The interdisciplinary undergraduate program blends core programming and algorithmic principles with the chance for specialized study in areas like agentic AI and robotics.

Aaron Foss has spent the last decade volunteering and supporting Defy Ventures, a national nonprofit grounded in criminal justice reform through entrepreneurship.

Tech expert and media star Katie Linendoll, an RIT information technology alumna, started her own media production and consulting company.

RIT is teaming up with Gallaudet University to prepare the next generation of artificial intelligence researchers and practitioners who will develop AI for everyone.

Five iSchool faculty members and students helped organize this year’s ASSETS conference and presented research focused on accessibility.

A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty continued an RIT tradition of participating in Canstruction Rochester by making EVE from WALL-E out of more than 2,400 canned goods.

A collaboration between RIT's Machine Learning and Data Intensive Computing (Mining) Lab and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) was featured in LLE in Focus Issue 6. Qi Yu, professor in RIT's School of Information, and computing and information sciences Ph.D. students are bringing artificial intelligence expertise to research in high-energy density (HED) physics.

RIT Professor Eva Navarro López was named one of the world’s most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics. She was selected for the list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics–2025 by Women in AI Ethics.

OnlineEngineeringPrograms.com interviewed Roshan Peiris, assistant professor in the School of Information, about the field of user experience (UX) design.

RIT professor Tae (Tom) Oh serves as president of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, where he encourages global collaboration.

Linguists face a resource gap for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions in sign languages, and for creating AI systems capable of processing visual prosody. Faculty members affiliated with RIT’s Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science aim to fill that gap through Deaf scientist-centered research.

To accommodate its growing number of graduates, the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences will hold two separate commencement ceremonies beginning in 2025.