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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September 2023

  • September 6, 2023

    Nidhi Rastogi, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, has recently been named as an Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellow. Representing RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, she spent three weeks in San Francisco in July 2023, gaining insights into creating impactful AI policy.

August 2023

  • August 15, 2023

    Donna Burnette, executive director; Brit Milazzo, digital marketing and communications manager; and Heather Storti, assistant director, AEOP Apprenticeships and Career Development, all in the K-12 University Center, organized and hosted the 2023 STEM Summer Speaker Series for more than 450 apprentices and fellows participating in Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) research this summer. The eight-session virtual series focused on STEM career pathways and highlighted Army-sponsored STEM research. David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media; Emily Nack ’22 (game design and development), IT specialist at the Army Cyber Institute; and Julia O'Gorman, third-year mechanical engineering student and SMART scholar, were featured presenters.

  • August 11, 2023

    An interdisciplinary team presented “Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience” at the SIGGRAPH 2023 Educator’s Forum on Aug. 9 in Los Angeles. Team members are Joe Geigel, professor in the Department of Computer Science; Thomas Warfield, director of dance; Yunn-Shan Ma, assistant professor in the School of Performing Arts; Shaun Foster, professor in the School of Design; and Dan Roach of DJR Design. The talk described collaborative educational experiences created during the Fall 2022 semester involving computation, design, art, and music.

July 2023

  • July 21, 2023

    Jonathan S. Weissman, senior lecturer of cybersecurity, was keynote speaker on the future of AI and cybersecurity on June 29 at TEACHfest Plenary, the summer professional development program for Brighton Central School District teachers. Weissman spoke about AI’s effects on education and cybersecurity, including ways that AI can disrupt K-12 education.

June 2023

  • June 29, 2023

    Jay Yang, professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, principal investigator, and Justin Pelletier, director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, co-PI, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to research and develop a novel dual-track learning program for cybersecurity practitioners. The idea is to instill an entrepreneurial mindset when educating the knowledge and skills (in using data analytics and AI for cyber defense operations) for cybersecurity analysts and engineers (dual roles) to work with each other in response to cyber incidents. This is a collaborative grant with the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education.

  • June 27, 2023

    Naureen Hoque, computing and information sciences Ph.D. candidate, co-authored two papers titled “Circumventing the Defense against Modulation Classification Attacks” and “Countering Relay and Spoofing Attacks in the Connection Establishment Phase of Wi-Fi Systems” with Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor of computing security, at the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2023, held May 29-June 1 in Surrey, United Kingdom.

  • June 15, 2023

    Nate Mathews, computing and information sciences Ph.D. student; Mohammad Saidur Rahman, Ph.D. candidate in computing and information sciences; and Matthew Wright, chair of the Department of Computing Security, presented “SoK: A Critical Evaluation of Efficient Website Fingerprinting Defenses” at the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on May 22 in San Francisco. The group presented along with members of University of Minnesota and Ewha Womans University. In addition, Rahman and Wright along with a member of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant presented the poster “Towards Continual Learning for Malware Classification.”

  • June 8, 2023

    David Schwartz, director and associate professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, and Jessica Bayliss, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media and director of the Console Development Lab, will present “Game Design for Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Game Engine Integration with Geospatial Technology” at the 91st Symposium of MORS (Military Operations Research Society) on June 15. The peer-reviewed presentation includes IGM faculty Brian Tomaszewski and Chao Peng; IGM graduate Emily Nack, an analyst for the Army Cyber Institute; and researchers from the U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Army Futures Command. This work involves past collaboration with RIT AEOP and demonstrates the growth of RIT research in geogames and cybersecurity.

May 2023