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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April 2022

April 1, 2022

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, had the paper “Fringe News Networks: Dynamics of US News Viewership Following the 2020 Presidential Election” accepted at the 2022 International ACM Conference on Web Science, in Barcelona, Spain. The paper analyzed social media data to study social political news networks and their viewers, providing insights into what happened regarding U.S. political social media channels and their viewership during the 64 days between the U.S. presidential election and the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The paper was done in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Maryland, College Park.

March 2022

March 29, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of computational linguistics and language science, and Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science, with Franca Delmastro and Michele Girolami of the National Research Council of Italy, organized the third Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing at the international IEEE PerCom 2022 conference, held virtually March 21-25.
March 24, 2022

Erika Mesh, lecturer in the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented “Educators Summit: Strategies for Creating Productive, Healthy Student Teams” at the Game Developers Conference on March 22 in San Francisco. Mesh presented strategies to help students proactively build healthy, inclusive team project environments where they can all contribute to the best of their ability.
March 18, 2022

Cecilia O. Alm, associate professor of computational linguistics and language science, presented the paper “Remote early research experiences for undergraduate students in computing,” authored with Reynold Bailey, professor of computer science, and Hannah Miller, Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences, at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2022 in Providence, R.I.
March 17, 2022

Anthony Peruma, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. candidate, and advisor Christian Newman, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, had their paper “Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study” accepted at the International Workshop on Natural Language-based Software Engineering.
March 10, 2022

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, published “Gender bias, social bias, and representation: 70 years of BHollywood” in the Cell Press journal Patterns. The paper studies gender and societal biases in popular Bollywood and Hollywood movies and was done in collaboration with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.

February 2022

February 17, 2022

Carlos Castellanos, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, has been awarded a residency at the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology in Valencia, Spain, to work on genetically modifying the stress response genes of agricultural plants so that they trigger morphological changes as the plants grow under stressful environmental conditions (like those expected from future climates). Using multi/hyper-spectral imaging and machine learning, the team will predict the emergence of these changes and translate them to text and sound to give the impression that the plants are “speaking” or “singing” to us.
February 15, 2022

David Schwartz, director, and Brian Tomaszewski, associate professor, both in the School of Interactive Games and Media, have received $30,000 from the Army Cyber Institute at West Point to prototype a resilience game to instruct critical infrastructure leaders about cyber security threats and impacts. The project is part of RIT’s Army Apprenticeship program and Global Cybersecurity Institute, and it continues the collaboration from RIT’s MAGIC Center and Center for Geographic Science & Technology.
February 3, 2022

Rajendra Raj, professor of computer science, was awarded Fellow of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) for his leadership in establishing cybersecurity and data science program accreditation. CSAB is an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) member governed by the world’s three largest societies in computing and statistics: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), ASA (American Statistical Association), and IEEE-Computer Society.

December 2021

December 6, 2021

Jonathan Weissman, senior lecturer of computing security, was inducted into the 2021 New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame as an IPv6 Evangelist. The recognition was created by the IPv6 Forum to celebrate experts and evangelists of IPv6 who have made extraordinary contributions to the design and large-scale deployment of IPv6 around the world. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the internet.