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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March 2024

  • March 20, 2024

    Alaina Mupparthi, a third-year computer science major and president of the Google Developers Student Club, spoke about her experiences as a club leader on the Google Developers YouTube channel.

February 2024

  • February 7, 2024

    Rajendra K. Raj, professor of computer science, published an opinion article on undergraduate computer science curricula in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. Raj and his co-authors discuss conflicting goals of designing an undergraduate computer science program, such as immediate employability, long-term career success in a constantly changing discipline, and preparation for future study. Recommendations are included in Computer Science Curricula 2023, a multi-year, all-volunteer effort, co-led by Raj, that will impact computer science education internationally.

January 2024

December 2023

  • December 21, 2023

    Kelly Wu, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and Matthew Wright, chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, participated in the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) Research Symposium, held Dec. 6 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. The team collaborated with LAS on a tool that helps analysts detect deepfakes.

  • December 21, 2023

    Jessica Bayliss, professor of interactive games and media, had her paper “The Data-Oriented Design Process for Game Development” from IEEE’s Computer magazine named a runner-up for the 2022 Best Paper Award by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.

November 2023

  • November 17, 2023

    Rob Olson, senior lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, was a featured panelist at the Recruiting for Cybersecurity Programs forum Nov. 16, hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Experts discussed how colleges can best recruit both students and instructors to the growing field of cybersecurity. The virtual forum is available online.

  • November 10, 2023

    Matthew Wright, chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, was invited by the U.S. Department of State to speak at the Elections and Cybersecurity Workshop: Protecting Indonesia’s Elections in 2024 and Beyond, in Bali. Wright presented on “Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation (MDM) Handling Management in U.S. Elections,” together with Kate Starbird, associate professor at University of Washington.

September 2023

  • September 21, 2023

    Two RIT teams participated in the 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2023), held Sept. 10-13 at the MIT Media Lab. Anisha Ashwath ’23 MS (computer science) and Michael Peechatt ’13 (software engineering), ’21 MS (computer science), a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, authored the paper “Early vs. Late Multimodal Fusion for Recognizing Confusion in Collaborative Tasks” with Cecilia Alm, professor in the Department of Psychology, and Reynold Bailey, professor in the Department of Computer Science. Jordan Quinn, a computer science student, presented a demo on “MDE – Multimodal Data Explorer for Flexible Visualization of Multiple Data Streams.” Team members included Isabelle Arthur, a computer science student; Rajesh Titung, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student; Alm; and Bailey.