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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May 2024

  • May 1, 2024

    Computing and information sciences Ph.D. students Saniat (John) J. Sohrawardi and Y. Kelly Wu presented “Identifying Deepfakes: Spotting and Combating the Emerging Criminal Activity” at the Canadian Institute’s Police Tech Conference and Expo on May 1 in Toronto. The students examined how deepfakes are used and how they are developing the DeFake Project, a deepfake detection tool.

April 2024

  • April 19, 2024

    Richard Lange, assistant professor of computer science, has been appointed as an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Visual Science. The center brings together researchers across a variety of disciplines from RIT and University of Rochester who are working on understanding human and artificial vision.

  • April 18, 2024

    Skyler Ferrante, a fourth-year cybersecurity student, found a vulnerability in util-linux (CVE-2024-28085) that has allowed low-privilege users to send escape sequences to other users and enabled a user’s password to be leaked on some configurations. The discovery was mentioned on multiple news sites, including Hackaday and Bleeping Computer.

  • April 2, 2024

    Michael Mior, assistant professor of computer science, was recognized with a Distinguished Program Committee Member Award for his work in producing high-quality reviews for submissions to the annual Extending Database Technology conference March 25-28 in Paestum, Italy.

  • April 2, 2024

    Computer science students Ben Giacalone and Quinn Tucker, and alumnus Greg Paiement, presented their paper on the role of MASK tokens in the ColBERT retrieval model at the European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24-28 in Glasgow, Scotland.

March 2024

  • March 25, 2024

    Olivia Gallucci, a third-year cybersecurity and computer science double major, presented “Exploit and Malicious Tool Development Utilizing Open Source Software” at the BSidesROC security conference on March 23 in Rochester, N.Y.

  • March 20, 2024

    Alaina Mupparthi, a third-year computer science major and president of the Google Developers Student Club, spoke about her experiences as a club leader on the Google Developers YouTube channel.

February 2024

  • February 7, 2024

    Rajendra K. Raj, professor of computer science, published an opinion article on undergraduate computer science curricula in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. Raj and his co-authors discuss conflicting goals of designing an undergraduate computer science program, such as immediate employability, long-term career success in a constantly changing discipline, and preparation for future study. Recommendations are included in Computer Science Curricula 2023, a multi-year, all-volunteer effort, co-led by Raj, that will impact computer science education internationally.

January 2024