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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September 2022

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.

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT and professor of interactive games and media, will deliver the welcoming and opening keynote address June 14 at Open Apereo 2022: The Value of Open Source. The talk, titled “The Values IN Open Source and Open Work in Academia,” will focus on the value that Open has in higher education, in terms of educational experiences and opportunities for faculty and students. It will also look at changes that the National Academies and other groups are lobbying for—and federal and private funders are requiring—and the impact that could have on annual evaluations, tenure, and promotion.
May 19, 2022

Geoff Twardokus, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, and his advisor, Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor of computing security, published “Vehicle-to-Nothing? Securing C-V2X Against Protocol-Aware DoS Attacks” in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2022. IEEE INFOCOM, held May 2-5, is a top conference in computer networks and wireless communications, according to Google Scholar. In the paper, the researchers exposed fundamental vulnerabilities with 5G vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology for safety applications. They also proposed security improvements and experimentally validated promising new detection techniques and mitigations for denial-of-service attacks they demonstrated. For more information, watch a short video where Twardokus explains a demo of the project.
May 10, 2022

Justin Pelletier, professor of practice in the Department of Computing Security and director of the ESL GCI Cyber Range and Training Center, is presenting at the “Improving Ransomware Resistance by Enhancing Network Security” Cyber Talk webinar May 11. Speakers at the EC-Council University webinar are discussing the best ways to implement multilayered network security approaches to defend networks against ransomware attacks.
May 4, 2022

Alexander Ororbia, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, published “The neural coding framework for learning generative models” in the Nature Communications journal. Ororbia and Daniel Kifer, professor at Pennsylvania State University, proposed a computational framework for developing neural generative models inspired by the theory of predictive processing in the brain. The paper was selected as an editor’s choice for top 50 papers published in applied physics and mathematics.