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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November 2024

November 11, 2024

Igor Polotai, a game design and development and history double major, presented "The RIT Iceberg: A Study of Collegiate Student Folklore and Traditions" at the American Folklore Society's Annual Meeting on Nov. 7 in Albuquerque, N.M.
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

U-RISE participant and cybersecurity student Hayden Orr presented “MULTICOLLAB-ASL: Towards Affective Computing for the Deaf Community” at ASSETS 2024. Co-authors included Michael Peechatt, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, and Cecilia Alm, professor in the Department of Psychology.
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.
October 25, 2024

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, was featured in the Oct. 21 edition of AI Magazine. The article, “Deceptively Simple: An Outsider’s Perspective on Natural Language Processing," highlighted his growing research career at the intersection of AI and natural language processing.
October 10, 2024

Siddharth Dongre, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, and Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, published "Fair and Secure 5G and Wi-Fi Coexistence Using Robust Implicit Channel Coordination" in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

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.