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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June 2024

June 13, 2024

T.J. Borrelli, principal lecturer of computer science in Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, participated in a panel discussion on WXXI's Connections with Evan Dawson on June 4. The discussion, titled Exploring the Risks and Rewards of AI in the Music Industry, examined the impact of artificial intelligence on music creation and distribution.
June 11, 2024

Fawad Ahmad, assistant professor of computer science, and Ph.D. students Kaleem Nawaz Khan and Ali Khalid published “VRF: Vehicle Road-side Point Cloud Fusion” at the 22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 3-7 in Toyko. VRF enables vehicles to see beyond corners and blind spots at traffic intersections, improving the safety of autonomous driving.

May 2024

May 30, 2024

Muhammad Raees, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student advised by Konstantinos Papangelis, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media, published “From Explainable to Interactive AI: A Literature Review on Current Trends in Human-AI Interaction” in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. The paper explores the evolution of human-centered AI, advocating for greater user agency in developing and operating AI systems beyond mere explainability and contestability.
May 6, 2024

Olivia Gallucci, a third-year cybersecurity and computer science double major, presented “Ethical and Economic Dimensions of Free Software Security” and served as a panelist for “GNU@NU: Building a community in education” at the LibrePlanet conference in Boston on May 4-5.
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.