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.
July 2025
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July 7, 2025
Owen Gottlieb, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented “Shipping Student Games Today—It Still Takes a Village (Western NY Perspectives)” on June 29 at the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN) and Higher Educational Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) Workshop: Global Game Education Now. Gottlieb discussed challenges in post-pandemic years of taking student and faculty games to market and the creative approaches he and colleagues have been developing to navigate changes in the games and interactive media environment.
June 2025
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June 10, 2025
Owen Gottlieb, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, and colleagues published "Use and benefits of a digital therapeutic for chronic pain management: A pilot study" in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, a journal from the American Physiological Association. The study findings support the continued development of an easily accessible and highly scalable digital therapeutic hypnosis prototype for people wishing to gain control over their chronic pain.
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June 10, 2025
Owen Gottlieb, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, and colleagues published “Hypnosis and mindfulness audio recordings for reducing fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis: A randomized controlled study,” in the Multiple Sclerosis Journal. The study developed interactive media to teach individuals self-hypnosis and mindfulness strategies for fatigue management, without needing to work with a trained clinician or pharmaceuticals. The program reduced fatigue and depressive symptoms in a study of 333 people with MS.
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June 9, 2025
David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented the paper “Serious Geogames for Cybersecurity and Disaster Management: Overview of Applications and Their Implementations” at the Geogames Symposium 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. This work represents a collaboration with co-authors from Iowa State and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
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June 6, 2025
Owen Gottlieb, associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, authored a chapter in The Archivability of Television: Essays on Preservation and Perseverance, a book in the Peabody Series in Media History—a collaboration of the University of Georgia Press and the Peabody Awards Collection. The chapter, titled “Heritage in Search of a Home: Archiving the Learning Designs and Artistry of Instructional Television of the 1970s and 1980s,” addresses the rescuing of historical collections that hold design implications for learning with games and interactive media today.
May 2025
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May 28, 2025
David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, and Rabbi Sandra Katz presented at and facilitated the Chaplaincy Game Jam at the NAJC Conference on May 11-14. The exploratory work investigates new ways to educate patients, families, and health providers about spiritual care.
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May 5, 2025
Emery Rios, a fourth-year cybersecurity student, has been selected as the recipient of the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence in Study for the 2025-2026 academic year. The award is given to a student who began their studies as a first-year student at RIT and is entering their last year of undergraduate study with the highest GPA across the university. As part of the award, Rios selected Yin Pan, professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, to receive the 2025-2026 Norman A. Miles Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching.
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May 1, 2025
Naresh Kshetri, lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, has been elevated to Senior Member of IEEE, an honor bestowed to those who have made significant contributions to the profession.
April 2025
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April 16, 2025
RIT hosted the Industry Consortium for AI Research and Translation Workshop April 3-4, bringing together industry and academic leaders to explore cutting-edge AI research and innovation. The event, co-organized by Shal Khazanchi, associate dean for Research and Graduate Programs in Saunders College of Business, and Naveen Sharma, associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Industry Engagement in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, explored collaborative strategies for an RIT-industry consortium to drive future AI advancement.
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April 16, 2025
Richard Zanibbi, professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented at the AI + Theoretical Physics Symposium at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. The symposium brought together leading physicists, including 2024 Nobel Prize winner in physics Geoffrey Hinton, Anthropic AI Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan, and Stephen Wolfram. Zanibbi participated in a panel discussion about processing the data of theoretical physics and discussed recent work in RIT’s Document and Pattern Recognition Lab, where he explores effective and usable tools for searching text and graphics in research papers and technical documents.