RIT - Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

MAGIC Maker Applications are OPEN!! Deadline to apply is July 10th!

The goal of the MAGIC Maker program is to provide students with the funding and support to manage their own digital media (games, film, digital media, interactive experiences, digital design, and more) projects and prepare them for publication and investment-readiness.

Ready to apply?? Visit https://brnw.ch/21x3qyW

👩: Kendyl Greer, Game Design and Development BS
📸: Traci Westcott/RIT

The Computing Organization for Multicultural Students (COMS) received the 2025-2026 ALANA Collegiate Association (ACA) Community Impact Award. 🏆

This award is given to an ACA affiliate organization that has made the most significant impact in its community, whether by growing the most, transforming the most, or making outstanding contributions to its students.

"COMS is grateful to receive this award from RIT ACA,” remarked Jacquis Webb, assistant director of student engagement and belonging in the College of Computing. “This award is a testament to the hard work our E-board and active members put in each week. I am excited to see what COMS can do in the future.”

ICYMI - For three semesters, students in professor Billy Brumley’s cybersecurity course have been patching issues with OpenSSL—a free and open-source library and toolkit that provides encryption for computer networks.

“OpenSSL is kind of the backbone of the internet, and even if you didn’t know about it, you’ve most likely used it to protect data when accessing a website,” said Jose Luis Gonzalez, a fourth-year cybersecurity major.

For the main class project, students find open issues on OpenSSL’s GitHub and write code that could be integrated into the system. At any time, there are more than 1,000 open reported issues on OpenSSL that anyone can help fix.

Read more about OpenSSL and Brumley’s class at https://brnw.ch/21x2UMw

Weijie Zhao, an assistant professor of computer science at RIT, wants to shine a light on AI design and make sure that machine learning models are not embedded with hidden vulnerabilities or dangerous exploits. His research will help build machine learning models that are more secure and interpretable.

“As we use AI and agentic AI more, this really is a public concern,” said Zhao. “We want to make sure that there is no false information or misinformation and that decisions are not being manipulated.”

Zhao recently earned a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and grant for his work. His five-year project is titled “Defending Machine Learning Models from Adversarial Threats via Unified Interpretability and Attribution.”

Learn more: https://brnw.ch/21x2JiF

At this year's RIT Graduate Showcase, students from the College of Computing won numerous awards for their research.

🟠 Angela and Anita Srbinovska (CS MS) were recognized with the 2026 RIT Outstanding Graduate Student Achievement Award in the Master's category.

🟠 Adit Dhall, Thejas Nagesh Gowda, and Karthik Mattu (AI MS) won 1st place for their poster in the People's Choice category.

🟠 Ayushi Parikh (GDD MS) won Runner Up in the Oral Presentation Master's category.

Congratulations on being honored for your extraordinary work!

📸: Carlos Ortiz/RIT
🔗: rit.edu/graduateschool/showcase-winners

Garreth Tigwell, assistant professor in the School of Information, has been honored as a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in recognition of his "technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology" over the last 10 years.

The 2025 list for Senior Members includes 128 recipients from around the world. Congratulations assistant professor Tigwell!

Two students from the College of Computing were honored at the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Symposium on April 28th.

Kifekachukwu Nwosu from the department of computer science (Computer Science and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies B.S.) received 1st place for her presentation, “Religion as a Central Barrier to Q***r and Women’s Liberation in Nigeria."

Nidhi Bangera from the School of Information (Human-Computer Interaction M.S.), received 2nd place for her presentation, “Exploring Gendered Biodiversity in US Children's Cartoons."

Please join us in congratulating them for this achievement 👏

📷: Joe Gallo

A few more messages from the families and loved ones of our graduates. Congratulations, Class of 2026!

📸 cover photo: Carlos Sanchez
🔗: rit.edu/computing/classof2026

Highlights from Ceremony II 🎓

Congratulations to all of our graduates from the School of Interactive Games and Media, School of Information, and Department of Software Engineering! We are so proud of you 🥹

📸 1-5: Paul Besch-Turner
📸 6-10: Carlos Sanchez