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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October 2024

September 2024

  • September 27, 2024

    Nate Mathews, a Ph.D. student in computing and information sciences, and Matthew Wright, the Kevin O’Sullivan Endowed Professor and chair of cybersecurity, have published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the third-ranked venue in computer security and cryptography, according to Google Scholar. Their work,“LASERBEAK: Evolving Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Attention and Multi-Channel Feature Representation,” advances the field of privacy online by demonstrating the effectiveness of novel attacks that show weaknesses in existing defenses.

  • September 17, 2024

    Olivia Gallucci, a computing security and computer science student, was the opening speaker at the BSides Zadar conference on Sept. 13 in Croatia. Gallucci also presented “Cross-Platform Exploitation: How OS Architecture Shapes Binary Exploits” and “How Open Source Software Lifecycles, Vulnerabilities, and Community Dynamics affect Security.”

  • September 10, 2024

    The RIT student team that created the game Good Luck Valley is a finalist in the 16th Unity Awards – Student Category. The student team, which participated in MAGIC Spell Studios’ Maker program for two semesters, is Owen Bauman, a third-year individualized studies major, and Brody Brewster, Isabella Frohlich, Vincent Le, Esther Loo, and Madeline Boussa, all third-year game design and development majors. Winners will be announced on Sept. 19 in Spain.

  • September 10, 2024

    Nine RIT faculty members attended the 2024 National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Principal Investigators’ Meeting Sept. 4-5, in Pittsburgh. Ivan De Oliveira Nunes, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, was a featured panelist for “Key Takeaways from Creating a Proposal and Managing a Real-time Embedded System Security CRII Project.” Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, ran a breakout session on “Preventing Disinformation and Deepfakes.” RIT faculty also presented eight posters.

  • September 6, 2024

    Zohair Raza Hassan, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia, in August to present at the 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. His talk, titled “The Complexity of (P3, H)-Arrowing and Beyond,” introduced novel research on inferring unavoidable patterns within mathematical structures.

August 2024

  • August 28, 2024

    Team Plutinite, composed of game design and development students AJ Biswas and Liam Alexiou and alumni Aidan Roberts ’23, Tyler Lynch ’24, Jack Kalina ’24, and Kenny Rossi ’23, released State of Matter, a first-person puzzle action shooter game, on July 19. The game, developed in collaboration with MAGIC Spell Studios and the Open 3D Foundation, is the first-ever published game using the fully open-source AAA Open 3D Engine.

  • August 28, 2024

    Hui-Yu Ho '20 (human computer interaction), UX Designer at Edifecs, was honored with two London Design Awards, presented by the International Awards Associate (IAA), for All Sound Production, an audio production studio based in Taipei. The project, which serves both local and international clients, was designed to showcase All Sound’s brand identity through a customer-facing platform that seamlessly integrates Traditional Chinese and English.

  • August 26, 2024

    Fawad Ahmad, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded an NSF CRII grant for his real-time, high-fidelity 3D replicas of the physical world (3D digital twins). While current digital twin systems struggle to adapt to changes in network and computing resources, this project aims to solve this problem by developing a framework that allows these systems to monitor underlying resources and adjust on the fly.

  • August 19, 2024

    Naureen Hoque, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, presented a defense mechanism against advanced wireless attacks at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). The research, which introduces a “moving-target defense framework” to protect wireless communications from sophisticated cyber threats, marks the sixth time Rahbari has published at the conference in the past decade.