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 2020

September 23, 2020

Stephen Jacobs, professor and director of Open@RIT, presented a lightning talk “Open@RIT: A University Open Programs Office” for the Open Source Initiative’s State of the Source Summit held virtually on Sept. 9.

May 2020

May 12, 2020

D.I.V.E., a PC game created by game design and development master’s students Haoyu Guo, Zheyu Zhang, Yiyan Wang, and Jiayi Jiang, took the Grand Prize at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) GameFest 2020, winning $1,000 and hardware courtesy of PubG. D.I.V.E. was also a finalist for the Artistic Excellence award and can be played at https://gmyth.itch.io/dive. Warping Game, a puzzle game created by Christian Eliopoulos, second-year game design and development student, and Ethan Lane, from Rider University, was a finalist for the Technical Excellence award. It can be played at https://blazerboy.itch.io/warping-game.

April 2020

April 21, 2020

RIT’s School of Information (iSchool) has been accepted for membership in the iSchools Organization at the iCaucus level. The iSchools Organization is dedicated to advancing the information field in the 21st century.
April 14, 2020

The Department of Computer Science’s Document and Pattern Recognition Lab (DPRL) demonstrated the MathDeck search interface at the European Conference on Information Retrieval, held virtually April 14-17. MathDeck provides innovative features for formula entry, search and sharing.

March 2020

March 22, 2020

Joe Geigel, professor of computer science, remotely presented “Farewell to Dawn: A Virtual Theatre Production” at the IEEE Virtual Reality conference March 22-26. The 360-degree video shows a production that combines virtual and augmented reality with motion capture to produce a live theatrical experience fully realized and experienced in a virtual space.

February 2020

February 28, 2020

RIT’s Women in Computing (WiC) organization won the 2020 Rochester Museum & Science Center STEM Education Award in Higher Education Feb. 28. The award recognizes innovative teaching in STEM education. Educators and administrators who inspire students to understand, appreciate and apply STEM concepts were also recognized, including Lana Verschage, director of WiC; Deborah Jackson, staff assistant; and student leaders in WiC. https://rmsc.org/press-news/item/727-2020-stemaward-winners

January 2020

January 17, 2020

Andrew Searns, a computer science BS/MS student, has received an Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, which recognizes top undergraduate research students across North America. Searns’ research is at the intersection of theory and AI and has been advised by Hadi Hosseini and Ivona Bezakova.

December 2019

December 6, 2019

Daniel Ruano, a fifth-year computing and information technologies major from Uniondale, N.Y., was awarded the 2018-2019 Undergraduate Philanthropist of the Year award on Dec. 6 by the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations. He is president of RIT’s Multicultural Greek Council and a brother of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity.

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Gahyun Park, lecturer of computing security; Minseok Kwon, professor of computer science; and Ramprasad Tamilselvan ’18 (computer science) had a paper accepted to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Symposium on Algorithmic Principles of Computer Systems (APoCS). Park will present the research on “Two-Way Trees: A Distributed Algorithm for Efficient Replica Search and Placement” at the symposium Jan. 8, 2020 in Salt Lake City. This trip was funded in part by a Lecturers’ Professional Development Grant through RIT’s Faculty Career Development office.
November 12, 2019

Abraham Glasser, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, won the Best Poster Award at the ACM Virtual Reality Science and Technology (VRST) conference Nov. 12-15 in Sydney, Australia. Glasser aims to make it easier to identify speakers at a panel presentation with his research on “Mixed Reality Speaker Identification as an Accessibility Tool for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users.”