Member Type: PI

Matthew Wright, PhD, is Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and the Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Wright earned his PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst in 2005 and previously worked as a faculty member in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005-2016. He is the…

Andrea Hickerson, Ph.D., is dean and professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. Previously she was an associate dean in the College of Information and Communications and the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. Before that, she served as…

Dr. Yu Kong is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. He is now directing the ACTION Lab. He serves Pattern Recognition and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia as an Associate Editor. He also serves CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, AAAI, Multimedia, FG, etc., as an Area Chair. He is an…

Dr. Ersin Uzun is the Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute (ESL-GCI) and a Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity. His current research interests include Usable Security/Privacy, misinformation/deepfake detection and IoT/Networking Security. Prior to joining RIT in 2022, Dr. Uzun’s professional experiences include leading innovation/incubation organizations, establishing technology and open…

David I. Schwartz, Ph.D., has worked in game design and development academia since 1999, when pitching the idea that led to co-founding the Game Design Initiative at Cornell University. Building on this success, he joined the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007 as a faculty member in game design and development. Subsequently, as IGM’s Director…