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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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.
September 7, 2022

Joe Geigel, professor of computer science, presented “Theatre in the Metaverse: Reflections on the Realities of Distributed Performance” at The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2022, held Aug. 17-24 in Amsterdam. The talk focused on the ongoing research in distributed live performance in VR he has been undertaking since 2004, with an emphasis on his latest production “Been Set Free.”

July 2022

July 21, 2022

Shaikh Akib Shahriyar, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and Matthew Wright, professor and department chair of computing security, published their paper “Evaluating Robustness of Sequence-based Deepfake Detector Models by Adversarial Perturbation” at the first Workshop on Security Implications of Deepfakes and Cheapfakes (WDC 2022) hosted within ACM ASIACCS 2022.
July 8, 2022

Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer of computing security, authored Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Certification Passport (Exam N10-008) and Mike Meyers’ CompTIA Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks Lab Manual (Exam N10-008).
July 1, 2022

Computing and information sciences Ph.D. students Anthony Peruma and Sara Moshtari, along with Assistant Professor Christian Newman, Assistant Professor Mohamed Mkaouer, and Associate Professor Mehdi Mirakhorli, faculty in the Department of Software Engineering, presented their work at The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022) and The International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2022). Peruma, Newman, and Mkaouer were awarded the Best Mining Challenge Paper Award for “Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring.” Additionally, Peruma received the Best Mining Challenge Student Presentation Award for the same paper.

June 2022

June 16, 2022

Rajendra Raj, professor of computer science, discussed “Crosscutting Themes in Computer Science: Where Does PDC Education Fit?” in his keynote address at the EduPar-22: 12th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education, which was held in conjunction with 36th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in Lyon, France, on May 30. Raj explored how undergraduate computer science educators need to identify and teach unifying ideas in computer science, building on the efforts of the CS202X Task Force.
June 2, 2022

Jessica Bayliss, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, published “The Data-Oriented Design Process for Game Development” in the May 2022 issue of the IEEE's Computer magazine. The article explores a growing software development process for games that reduces complicated design methods to leverage the simplicity of what computer architecture is designed to do: input, transform, and output data.