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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January 2021

January 19, 2021

Cissi Ovesdotter Alm, associate professor in the Department of English, and Reynold Bailey, professor in the Department of Computer Science, published the article “Transitioning from Teaching to Mentoring: Supporting Students to Adopt Mentee Roles” in the Journal for STEM Education Research.

November 2020

November 17, 2020

Stephen Jacobs, director of Open@RIT and professor of interactive games and media, was a guest on the CHAOSS community podcast, where he talked about creating an open source program office at RIT.
November 10, 2020

Matthew Wright, director of research for the Global Cybersecurity Institute, was awarded $200,000 from the Knight Foundation to equip journalists with an effective tool and best practices to detect deepfakes and altered photos and video.

October 2020

October 6, 2020

Stephen Jacobs, professor and director of Open@RIT, hosted a local cohort for the National Day of Civic Hacking on Sept. 13. Kate May, chief performance officer for the City of Rochester, gave a presentation and led the discussion. Other RIT participants included Jessica Lieberman, associate professor of performing arts; Tony Harkin, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences; and Matthew Bernius ’96 (graphic communications).

September 2020

September 29, 2020

David Narváez, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student from Panama, was selected for the 2020 class of Computing Innovation Fellows. The program aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be computing Ph.D. graduates to combat hiring disruptions due to COVID-19. Narváez is advised by computer science professors Edith Hemaspaandra and Stanislaw Radziszowski.
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.