Newsmakers

Highlighting the professional and academic accomplishments of College of Computing and Information Sciences students, faculty, and staff.

Newsmakers are a quick and easy way to acknowledge the professional and academic accomplishments of RIT students, faculty, and staff, such as publishing an article in a scholarly journal, presenting research at a conference, serving on a panel discussion, earning a scholarship, or winning an award. Newsmakers appear in News and Events as well as the "In the News" section on faculty/staff directory profile pages.

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October 2026

  • October 5, 2026

    Ph.D. student Mamadou Keita, and Christopher Homan, associate professor of computer science, had their paper, “Computer Science Conferences Should Require Nonrepudiable Experimental Results,” accepted to NeurIPS 2026, the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. The paper argues that CS venues should provide a resource for researchers to preregister their experiments in a way that makes the end-to-end process from executing the experiments to writing up the results non-repudiable. 

  • October 5, 2026

    Tyler Alvarez, a fifth-year computer science student, and Ali Baheri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, had their paper “GeoReason: Step-Level Hallucination Detection via Hidden-State Trajectory Geometry,” accepted to the NeurReps 2026 Proceedings track and for poster presentation at NeurIPS 2026. The research introduces a geometric approach for detecting and localizing the first hallucinated step in large language model reasoning by analyzing how the model’s internal hidden states evolve during a reasoning process.

September 2026

  • September 9, 2026

    Aiden Morris, a fourth-year electrical engineering student, has been awarded the SMART Scholarship, a highly competitive STEM scholarship for those who wish to pursue a career with the Department of War.

  • September 2, 2026

    Ali Baheri, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and affiliate of RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, has been selected for an award through the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Grant Program for the project “Red-Teaming and Assurance for Geometric AI in Defense Autonomy.” The project will develop new tools for assuring the safety of symmetry-aware AI systems and benchmarking geometric AI used in safety-critical autonomous systems.

August 2026

  • August 27, 2026

    Naresh Kshetri, lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, co-authored Securing AI-generated media with Blockchain technologies. The book addresses the profound challenges of cybersecurity risks, data privacy concerns, intellectual property disputes, missing information, deepfakes proliferation, and legal complexities by exploring the blockchain technology potential as a cornerstone for securing AI-generated content.

  • August 21, 2026

    Justin Pelletier, professor of practice in the Department of Cybersecurity and director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute Cyber Range and Training Center, received an award from the Department of War for continued support of RIT’s Cyber Service Academy program, which is designed to recruit top cyber talent and retain the current cyber workforce to help secure the United States against the threats of information systems and networks.

  • August 19, 2026

    Billy Brumley, O’Sullivan Professor of Cybersecurity, and Ravikumar Selvam, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Cybersecurity, along with Neil Horman of OpenSSL Software Services Inc., are co-PI’s on a new award from the National Science Foundation for their project, Addressing Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL's Providers, Primitives, and Protocols.

  • August 17, 2026

    Christian Newman, associate professor of software engineering and software engineering graduate program director, earned a new award from the National Science Foundation for his project, Preparing Computer Science Students for Artificial Intelligence Assisted Software Development.