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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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.

  • August 13, 2024

    Carlos Rivero, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, received $212,983 from the National Science Foundation for his project titled "Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track III: A Taste of Formal Methods for Different STEM Communities and Courses." The project focuses on increasing the accessibility of formal methods by integrating them into undergraduate education, including courses for computer science majors. Rivero's team is developing and disseminating self-contained, interactive exercises using a web-based programming environment to solve small-scale problems with formal methods, providing various STEM communities with a foundational understanding of these techniques.

  • August 1, 2024

    Dipkamal Bhusal, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, presented his paper on “Attack Agnostic Unsupervised Adversarial Detection” at the 9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy on July 9 in Vienna, Austria. The paper proposes a lightweight and practical solution for detecting adversarial attacks on deep learning models.

July 2024

  • July 17, 2024

    Raman Zatsarenko, a first-year computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, attended the 5th Annual IEEE World AI IoT Congress (Artificial Intelligence in Internet of Things) on May 29-31 in Seattle. Zatsarenko won the Best Presenter Award for the paper “Trust-Based Anomaly Detection in Federated Edge Learning,” co-authored by Leon Reznik, professor in the Department of Computer Science.

  • July 17, 2024

    City skyline with the words Jack Voltaic Cyber Critical Infrastructure Resilience Research.
     

    Dave Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, presented his team’s work on Jack Voltaic at the 49th annual National Hazards Research and Applications Workshop on July 14. The game, funded by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, prepares critical infrastructure stakeholders for the convergence of physical disasters and cybersecurity attacks. The team was a collaboration between the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, College of Art and Design, and ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute.

  • July 1, 2024

    M. Mustafa Rafique, associate professor of computer science, and Avinash Maurya, a computer science Ph.D. student, received the Best Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery international symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Conference. Their paper, titled "DataStates-LLM: Lazy Asynchronous Checkpointing for Large Language Models," addresses how to efficiently manage the saving and restoring of large AI models during training, ensuring minimal disruption and faster overall processing times.

June 2024

  • June 17, 2024

    Carlos Rivero, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a Small Core research award from the National Science Foundation for advancing evaluation protocols for link prediction in knowledge graphs. The project will investigate new methods to interpret link predictions, quantify model interpretability, and partition knowledge graphs to reduce bias in link prediction evaluation.