News by Topic: Co-Op And Careers

The competition asked students to step into the role of a Microsoft Cloud and AI Specialist for a day and work alongside professionals from Microsoft, Mastercard, EY, and GitHub. Out of more than 1,000 applications, the RIT team was selected as one of 17 finalists and won first place.

RIT alumni are building professions in fields that were unthinkable a generation ago. Meet eight alumni, from across the university, who are shaping new careers.

Multidisciplinary student teams gained co-op and internship experience working on projects for Rochester-area organizations serving people with disabilities.

RIT graduate and undergraduate students helped Associate Professor Jie Qiao turn a research vision more than a decade in the making into a breakthrough that could change how advanced optical components are made.

Rochester Business Journal profiles alumnus Nick Myers ’15 (MBA), founder of Phoenix Tailings, whose company plans to build a $375 million rare earth processing facility and is collaborating with RIT on workforce development initiatives.

Ben Garvey founded Great Lakes Gaming, a downtown Rochester complex that he sees as a country club for local gamers, where people can compete and socialize.

Hema Madaka provides clients with suggestions to redesign supply chains, set goals with their suppliers, and helps clients build supplier engagement programs around renewable energy.

As a service engineer for Abbott in Detroit, Michael Kormos provides electrical anatomical mapping to locate and navigate heart arrhythmias and tissue damage.

Sohil Shah leads development of an agentic AI system that is helping PayPal’s reliability engineering team operate at a new level.

Food scientist Lauren Tamburro is making sure cannabis gummies live up to their marketing tag line of being soft, bouncy, and delicious.

As a 3D-workflow and technology specialist, Malcolm Zale tests and integrates new technology and software into the company’s workflows and rolodex of offerings.

Pano Spiliotis ’99, ’01 MBA turned his RIT foundation in imaging science and business into a fast-growing company advancing AI-enabled imaging.