Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences News
Department of Software Engineering
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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 19, 2026
Can you pick which face is 'gay' or 'criminal'? Professor sounds alarm over creepy way Google assigns characteristics
Daily Mail interviews RIT software engineering professor Ashique KhudaBukhsh about AI safety vulnerabilities and how image-generation models can reproduce stereotypes associated with sexual orientation, race, and criminality.
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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 1, 2026
RIT student wins HackMIT with low-cost medicine testing device
An RIT student and his team took home the first-place grand prize at HackMIT 2026, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hackathon. The team developed a low-cost testing device so anyone can check whether their medicine is real.
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September 8, 2026
First-year RIT students study the relationships between AI, technology, and society
The widespread adoption of AI systems and tools has undeniably altered human life and the workforce, but RIT is making sure students are confidently prepared to navigate these changes.
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September 2, 2026
Expert weighs in on privacy concerns over license plate reader cameras, used by some local agencies
WHEC-TV speaks with Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about privacy and security concerns surrounding automated license plate readers, and the need for greater oversight as surveillance technologies become more widely used.
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August 11, 2026
Finger Lakes Region sees rise in automated license plate readers
Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, speaks with WROC-TV to explain the AI-assisted technology behind automated license plate readers.
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August 5, 2026
Study claims popular videos for kids lack academic value
The New Indian Express highlights a study co-authored by Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, that used a machine comprehension model to compare and evaluate the academic quality of YouTube Kids channels.
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April 22, 2026
BizCloud Experts and RIT Partner to Invest in the Next Generation of Software Engineers
AWS Advanced Partner provided resources and guidance to students learning cloud computing.
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February 20, 2026
RIT researchers find that AI chatbots have a truth problem
WXXI speaks to Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about stress testing large language models to see how susceptible they are to caving to faulty information.
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February 17, 2026
Honing résumés and mock interviews pave the way to co-ops
Muhammad Rafikov, a second-year computer science student, is heading to the Spring University-Wide Career Fair on the lookout for his second co-op. During this search, he plans to bring along everything he learned from his first internship last summer at Google.
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December 2, 2025
Move Over, Computer Science. Students Are Flocking to New A.I. Majors.
The New York Times speaks to Andy Meneely, associate professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about the popularity of new artificial intelligence undergraduate majors.