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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November 2024

  • November 12, 2024

    A team of eight RIT CyberScholars from the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program placed first and 11th at the University of Arkansas's RazorHack cybersecurity competition on the weekend of Oct. 27. The first-place team included students Rick Wallert, Donovan Hwang, Albert Hynes, and Andrew Bush, while the 11th-place team featured students Jaime Campanelli, Sabran Evangelista, Ashley Alt, and Kelsey Tirado.The competition tested their skills in penetration testing, cryptography, steganography, buffer overflow attacks, web attacks, and physical security. The CyberScholars also presented on topics such as covert communications and AI ethics, earning high praise for engagement from the University of Arkansas’s CyberHogs club. RIT’s SFS program, led by Bo Yuan, Andy Meneely, and Rajendra K. Raj, prepares students for careers in national cybersecurity through scholarships and accelerated degree programs.

  • November 8, 2024

    Stephen Jacobs, professor in RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media, is presenting “The History of Jews in the Toy and Game Industry” at the JCC Lane Dworkin Authors + Innovators Festival, at 10 a.m. Nov. 17, at the JCC of Greater Rochester. Jacobs will discuss Jewish game changers who shaped the Western industrialized toy, game, pinball, and video game businesses.

  • November 6, 2024

    A team of cybersecurity students placed third in the Hivestorm collegiate cyber defense competition on Oct. 16. The team included Asa Horn, Justin Huang, Tyler Allen, and Massimo Marino. Teams compete by securing provided virtual machines, accumulating points for removing malware and other infections, correcting misconfigurations, mitigating vulnerabilities, and disabling vulnerable services.

  • November 1, 2024

    Professors Bruce Hartpence, Daryl Johnson, and Bill Stackpole of the School of Information and Department of Cybersecurity, along with Andres Kwasinski, professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, published “RIT Network and Security Dataset Collections” at the 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers, and Communications in Washington, D.C. The repository is the first of its kind (index numbers 1 and 2) featuring curated and uncurated datasets for network and security research, including scans and various attack scenarios. The datasets are available to researchers globally through RIT Libraries.

October 2024

  • October 30, 2024

    Stephen Jacobs, professor in RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media and director of Open@RIT, received the 2024 Tourism Achievement Award from Visit Rochester during a ceremony Oct. 30. The award recognizes individuals who are champions for the local tourism community by helping to bring events to the area and promoting Rochester as a great destination for meetings and conventions.

  • October 30, 2024

    Dave Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented his team’s game, Jack Voltaic 4.0, at the MORS Global Critical Infrastructure Workshop on Oct. 22. The work is part of the workshop’s proposal to the U.S. Department of Defense senior leadership for future investments in protecting critical infrastructure. The Army Cyber Institute at West Point sponsors the project.