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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September 2019

July 2019

  • July 28, 2019

    Several computer science students and recent graduates had projects showcased in the eighth annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit at ACM’s SIGGRAPH 2019 conference July 28–Aug. 1 in Los Angeles: Jietong Chen ’19 MS and Srivardhana Reddy Indukuri ’19 MS, “Caustics in Unity,” under Professor Joe Geigel; Samuel Kilgus ’19, “Generations,” under Professor Reynold Bailey; Jacob VanScoy ’18, “Gravitational Lensing,” under Geigel; and Richard Guerin, fifth-year student, “Phantom of the Opera Simulation,” under Geigel. The projects are available online.

  • July 20, 2019

    Taejoong Chung, assistant professor of computer science, was selected as a 2019 awardee of the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize, for his paper “Understanding the Role of Registrars in DNSSEC Deployment.” Chung was invited to present the research at an Internet Engineering Task Force meeting July 20-26 in Montreal, Canada. The prize was awarded for recent results in applied networking research that are relevant for transitioning into shipping Internet products and related standardization efforts.

  • July 2, 2019

    Neil Hair, executive director of the Innovative Learning Institute; Justin Pelletier, lecturer in the Department of Computing Security; and James Santa, adjunct faculty, won the Best Paper Award, Marketing of Higher Education Track, at the Academy of Marketing Conference 2019, held July 2-4 at Regents University in London, for their paper, “Modelling e-learner Satisfaction: The Role of Online Customer Experience.”

April 2019

  • April 1, 2019

    Wei Zhong, a computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, received the Best Applications Paper at the European Conference on Information Retrieval in mid-April for his paper “Structural Similarity Search for Formulas using Leaf-Root Paths in Operator Subtrees.” Wei's advisor and co-author was Richard Zanibbi, professor in the Department of Computer Science.

January 2019

  • January 1, 2019

    Kenny Davila Castellanos ’13 MS (computer science), ’18 Ph.D. (computing and information sciences) and Richard Zanibbi, professor of computer science, received the Best Paper Award for “Visual Search Engine for Handwritten and Typeset Math in Lecture Videos and LaTeX Notes” at the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2018) in August. The paper is based on Kenny’s Ph.D. dissertation.

December 2018

  • December 12, 2018

    Taejoong “Tijay” Chung, assistant professor of computer science, received the 2019 Applied Networking Research Prize for the paper “Understanding the Role of Registrars in DNSSEC Deployment.” The award recognizes the best new ideas in networking.

October 2018

  • October 22, 2018

    Kristen Shinohara, assistant professor of information sciences and technologies, presented “Incorporating Social Factors in Accessible Design,” along with University of Washington professors Jacob Wobbrock and Wanda Pratt, Oct. 22 at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) in Ireland.

  • October 22, 2018

    Matthew Seita, Khaled Albusays and Sushant Kafle, computing and information sciences Ph.D. students; Michael Stinson, NTID professor; and Matt Huenerfauth, GCCIS professor, presented “Behavioral Changes in Speakers who are Automatically Captioned in Meetings with Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Peers” Oct. 22 at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) in Ireland.

  • October 22, 2018

    Matt Huenerfauth, professor of information sciences and technologies, won the 2018 ACM SIGACCESS Best Paper award for “Modeling the Speed and Timing of American Sign Language to Generate Realistic Animations.” Co-authors for the research paper include Ph.D. students Larwan Berke and Sushant Kafle, as well as human computer interaction master’s student Peter Yeung.