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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February 2023

February 2, 2023

Rajendra Raj, professor of computer science, received the ABET Fellow Award at the 2022 ABET Awards Ceremony in Baltimore in October 2022 for “substantial contributions in advancing computing accreditation and improving relevance to industry needs, including leading efforts to establish accreditation criteria for new computing disciplines and new degree levels.” ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) is a nonprofit organization that accredits college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology in 40 countries across the world.

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Leon Reznik, professor of computer science, published Intelligent Security Systems: How Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science Work For and Against Computer Security. The textbook synthesizes techniques and emphasizes practical and actionable strategies that can be immediately implemented to harden computer systems against threats.
January 27, 2023

Jake Adams, lecturer in the School of Interactive Games and Media, won the Platinum Award at the 2023 AVA Digital Awards for his digital holographic comic (holo-comic) Aphid Through the Looking Glass, created through Valholo, Adams’ studio practice, and commissioned by the Looking Glass Factory. The international AVA Digital Awards competition recognizes excellence by professionals responsible for the planning, concept, direction, design, and production of digital communication, and is judged by AMCP.
January 13, 2023

Avinash Maurya, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and M. Mustafa Rafique, assistant professor of computer science, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) in Bangalore, India, Dec. 18-21. The paper, called “Towards Efficient Cache Allocation for High-Frequency Checkpointing,” proposes a new approach and prototype to reduce initialization overhead.

December 2022

December 6, 2022

Joseph Bochner, professor at NTID; Vincent Samar, recently retired professor from NTID; Matt Huenerfauth, dean, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences; and Emily Prud'hommeaux, Boston College, published “Phoneme Categorization in Prelingually Deaf Adult Cochlear Implant Users” in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Their research shows that the age at which a prelingually deaf child receives a cochlear implant affects their eventual development of speech sound categories in adulthood.

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Patrick Graham, department chair, and Chris Kurz, professor, both in NTID’s secondary education of students who are Deaf or hard of hearing program; and Stephen Jacobs, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, were invited to the mEducation Alliance Symposium at the Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., to discuss their work in the Philippines, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Andrew Herbert, professor of psychology; Archana Pandurangan, a psychology graduate student; and Cory Merkel, assistant professor of computer engineering, presented a poster on “Eye-tracking while learning Greebles” at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting. They reported progress on a project comparing how humans and convolutional neural networks learn new objects (funded in part by RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute).
October 24, 2022

Justin Pelletier, director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute Cyber Range and Training Center, presented a talk on Cyber Risk Assessment on Oct. 13 at the Rochester Security Summit: 2022. The talk reviewed how RIT helped S&P Global Ratings formulate assessments for cyber risk and provided an introduction to the elements of a cyber risk assessment.

September 2022

September 16, 2022

James Santa, adjunct faculty member in the Department of MIS, Marketing, and Analytics; the Department of Computing Security; and the Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has joined The Common Mission Project (CMP) as the Director of Curriculum. CMP has been facilitating courses on the RIT campus since 2018, bringing together students and industry and government experts to conduct deep domain understanding and facilitate critical problem solving.
September 7, 2022

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, had two papers accepted at the 2022 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI) July 23-29 in Vienna, Austria. “A Murder and Protests, the Capitol Riot, and the Chauvin Trial: Estimating Disparate News Media Stance” used advanced natural language processing methods to analyze 34,000 transcripts and show how news networks change their stance towards hot-button issues depending on political events and the audience. “Conversational Inequality Through the Lens of Political Interruption” used natural language processing methods to analyze benign and intrusive interruptions in political conversations—in terms of gender, race/ethnicity, occupation, and political orientation. Both papers were done in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.