Newsmakers

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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February 2020

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.”

October 2019

  • October 23, 2019

    Matthew Wright, professor of computing security and director of the Center for Cybersecurity, gave a keynote speech at SecureComm 2019 Oct. 23 in Orlando, Fla.

  • October 11, 2019

    Minseok Kwon, professor of computer science, presented his research on “Proof-Carrying Network Code” at the Cornell-Princeton Network Programming Initiative (NPI) annual retreat Oct. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City. The research centers on the development of programming logics to specify and enforce security policies in federated network settings focusing on authorization and network behavioral policies, including firewalls.

September 2019

July 2019

  • July 28, 2019

    Several computer science students and recent graduates had projects showcased in the eighth annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit at ACM’s SIGGRAPH 2019 conference July 28–Aug. 1 in Los Angeles: Jietong Chen ’19 MS and Srivardhana Reddy Indukuri ’19 MS, “Caustics in Unity,” under Professor Joe Geigel; Samuel Kilgus ’19, “Generations,” under Professor Reynold Bailey; Jacob VanScoy ’18, “Gravitational Lensing,” under Geigel; and Richard Guerin, fifth-year student, “Phantom of the Opera Simulation,” under Geigel. The projects are available online.

  • July 20, 2019

    Taejoong Chung, assistant professor of computer science, was selected as a 2019 awardee of the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize, for his paper “Understanding the Role of Registrars in DNSSEC Deployment.” Chung was invited to present the research at an Internet Engineering Task Force meeting July 20-26 in Montreal, Canada. The prize was awarded for recent results in applied networking research that are relevant for transitioning into shipping Internet products and related standardization efforts.