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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May 2023

May 15, 2023

Alexander G. Ororbia II, assistant professor of computer science, recently had an article selected by the editors of Nature Communications to be featured in the Neuromorphic Hardware and Computing collection. “The neural coding framework for learning generative models,” published in 2022, was featured under the “Brain-inspired Computing and Algorithms” category on May 5.
May 11, 2023

Tae “Tom” Oh, professor in the School of Information, was elected as the 53rd Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) president on April 8. As president, Oh will meet with Korean diplomats, top officials, and presidents of science and technology research agencies and institutes to represent KSEA and perform fundraising. The nonprofit professional organization has more than 7,000 registered members, with 70 local chapters and 13 technical groups across the United States. The KSEA US-Korea Conference 2023 will be held Aug. 2-5 in Dallas.

April 2023

April 21, 2023

Brian Tomaszewski, professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media and director of the Center for Geographic Information Science and Technology, co-presented a talk about geospatial game development with software company Esri at its “Bridging the World of 3D GIS and Game Engines” meeting on April 11.

March 2023

March 27, 2023

Michael Zuzak, assistant professor in computer engineering, has been granted an award from the National Science Foundation for a project titled, “CRII SaTC: Design Space Modeling for Logic Obfuscation to Enable System-Wide Security during IC Manufacture and Test.” This project explores how mathematically rigorous models can be created to optimally distribute security resources throughout complex computer chips to protect them from security threats during manufacturing.

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Zhizhuo Yang, Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences; Gabriel Diaz, associate professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science; Reynold Bailey, professor in the Department of Computer Science; Alexander Ororbia, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science; and Brett Fajen, professor in cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, published “A neural active inference model of perceptual-motor learning” in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
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.