Newsmakers | Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

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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August 2026

August 7, 2026

José Zagal, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented a keynote on Role-Playing Games in Chile at the tri-lingual 10th International Colloquium on Role-Playing Game Studies, July 29-31 in Newark, N.J.

July 2026

July 21, 2026

Cedric Bone, computing and information sciences Ph.D. student and member of the Computational and Speech Processing Lab, was the first author of “A Multimodal Investigation of Controllability and Cognitive Load in Interactive Machine Learning,” co-authored by Parth Kapur, artificial intelligence MS student, and Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director.
July 6, 2026

The Computing Organization for Multicultural Students in the College of Computing was the recipient of the 2025-2026 ALANA Collegiate Association (ACA) Community Impact Award. This award is given to an ACA affiliate organization that has made the most significant impact in its community through growth, transformation, or outstanding contributions to students.
July 6, 2026

Richard Lange, assistant professor, and Alexander Ororbia, associate professor, both in the Department of Computer Science, received a new award from the National Science Foundation for their project “Advancing NeuroAI through Biologically-Plausible Self-supervised Learning.” Both faculty members' research bridges neuroscience and AI, with Ororbia leading the Neural Adaptive Computing Laboratory at RIT.
July 1, 2026

Calvin Nau, Ph.D. candidate in RIT's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, is the first author of “Fairness Without Discrimination: Individually Fair Outcomes in the Kidney Exchange Problem” in Decision Analysis. The article was co-authored with Katie McConky, department head, and Ali Baheri, assistant professor, both in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering; Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director; Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science; and researchers at SUNY Buffalo.

June 2026

June 18, 2026

Rajesh Titung, computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, published “Personalized Federated Learning for Session-Based Affective Interaction Modeling” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The paper was co-authored by Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director.
June 17, 2026

Christopher Schwartz, research scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity, published “Is Simulated Evidence Still Evidence? A Warrant-Based Policy for Governing Synthetic Data” for the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University (Sweden), where Schwartz is completing a research fellowship. The paper investigates how AI-generated artifacts are challenging society’s concept of evidence and proposes a comprehensive strategy for how governments can deal with this problem.

May 2026

May 19, 2026

Cecilia Alm, professor of psychology and artificial intelligence program director, was an invited speaker at a special session of the Global Science Forum of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. Alm spoke on her work directing the National Science Foundation-supported IRES AI-PROWIL program, which involves an international research training partnership between RIT and University West in Sweden.
May 18, 2026

Garreth Tigwell, assistant professor in the School of Information, has been honored as a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery in recognition of his technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology over the last 10 years.
May 1, 2026

Gaurank Maheshwari, a data science graduate student, presented “NewsLensAI: NER-Guided Summarization for Mitigating Hallucination and Bias in LLM-Based News Summaries” at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Singapore. Maheshwari’s research was completed under the guidance of Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor of software engineering, as part of graduate capstone research focused on reducing hallucinations and bias in AI-generated news summaries