RIT Center for Imaging Science

09/02/2026

The Industrial Associates (IA) event week is fast approaching! The registration is open, come join us on November 4-6, as we bring together scholars, faculty, staff, and industry partners.

What happens at the IA symposium?

✅ Student research showcase
✅Program updates
✅Faculty research presentation
✅Student poster session
✅Company introduction
✅Company table session
✅Student interviews
✅Research Happy Hour

View the Fall 2026 RIT Industrial Associates Event Week itinerary, including symposium sessions, networking, lab tours, student presentations, interviews, and member events.

08/25/2026

🌞🌏NASA sure was good to Imaging Science this year. Leiani (Imaging Science undergrad) spent her summer in Pasadena, CA working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Her project focused on modernizing and expanding the capabilities of the MISR INteractive eXplorer (MINX).

📸📸 MISR is a SpectroRadiometer that views Earth from 9 different cameras, allowing for scientists to determine things like smoke plume heights, wildfire activity, and aerosol properties. She was focused on converting the existing MINX software from IDL to Python and developing a more modular framework that has the capability to support additional products and data.
NASA Internships RIT College of Science

08/19/2026

Our new Tigers are here!!! Welcome the incoming RIT Imaging Science freshman class. The campus is alive again! 🐅🐾

08/12/2026

🐯 It's an RIT Center for Imaging Science takeover at !! Between students, staff and faculty, The Center for Imaging Science is giving 17 different talks, posters, and events.

🔗 Here's the link the the technical program: https://2026.ieeeigarss.org/technical_program.php

📜 Here's what's coming up:

📜 Wednesday:
*Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Map Marine Invertebrate Populations in Coastal Salt Marsh Ecosystems from Retrieved Estimates of Geophysical and Biophysical Parameters, Charles Bachmann

*Operational Hyperspectral Imaging from Space: Translating Science into Actionable Intelligence, moderated by Emmett Ientilucci

*Simulating Spectral-spatial Trade-offs in Biodiversity mapping Using DIRSIG Hyperspectral Imagery

*Sub-pixel Activity Monitoring in Landsat via Temporal Spectral Complexity


📜 Thursday:
*Uncertainty-aware Radar Pulse Segmentation via Bayesian 1D U-NET, Yassine Barhoumi

*Beyond Thermal Detection: Vision -based Detection of Gas Flares in High-resolution Satellite Images, Oluwasegun Omobolanle

*Overview of the ROCX 2025 Open Community Remote Sensing Data Collection, John Kerekes

*Toward UAV-based Hyperspectral Detection of Surface PFM-1 Mines: Insights from the ROCX 2025 Campaign, Sagar Lekhak

*Time Series Analysis of Vegetation Fire Risk Indicators Using EMIT Hyperspectral Observations, Nayma Binte Nur


📜 Friday:
*Chromatic Aberration Correction of Wide-angle Hyperspectral Camera, Zach Mulhollan

*Wetland Delineation from Hyperspectral Imagery Using Hybrid Radiative Transfer and Statistical Models, Charles Bachmann

08/10/2026

It’s been a great start to IGARSS 2026! If you’re in the area, stop by to visit RIT Imaging Science!

08/05/2026

Alex Gregor (Imaging Science undergrad student) was featured for his internship with NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Alex has been working as an Orion optical navigation software and hardware development intern at NASA’s Johnson Space Center this summer.

He's been spending the summer analyzing and calibrating cameras for the optical navigation system used on Orion and other spacecraft in the JSC’s Electro Optics Lab.

This ultimately helps ensure spacecraft are being tracked accurately by ground equipment and can also serve as a backup system, leading astronauts home automatically in the event of a loss of communication with Earth.

Go Alex!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbqPt3oD8Gu/?hl=en

07/31/2026

🧐🔬Imaging Science was well represented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium this year. They’ve been working hard all summer and now they get to show off a bit of their research! This is how Imaging Scientists are made. Well done by all of you!

⭐️”Quantitative Principal Component Analysis in Cultural Heritage Imaging”
Sophia Leonard

⭐️”Fabrication of 3D Waveguides Using Ultra-fast Laser Inscription”
Shivani Hancock

⭐️”Digital Twins of Cultural Heritage Artifacts”
Iris Angello, Carter Laubach

⭐️”Applying and Making MISHA Accessible to Local and State History Museums”
Patrick Showers

07/30/2026

Headed to IGARSS 2026?
Us too!!
Come meet us for a casual happy hour:

Imaging Science Meetup at Mission DuPont
Tuesday August 11, 2026
5:30pm - 7:30pm
1606 20th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20009

07/23/2026

Research in the Center for Imaging Science doesn’t stop for the summer…but it does stop for lunch! Here’s your sign to take your lunch break.
Bon appétit! 🍔🍕🌭

07/14/2026

"The National Science Foundation (NSF) will award $15 million over the next two years to the Rochester/Finger Lakes region of New York to establish a national hub for laser science and development. RIT is a key partner in the initiative, bolstering the region's laser technology, manufacturing, education, and workforce."

"A goal of the NSF Engine STELLAR program is to educate and build a stronger workforce in laser technologies. Students, like RIT imaging science Ph.D. student Muhammad Akif Qadeer, receive hands-on learning on ultrafast laser enabled optical fabrication and integrated photonics in Professor Jie Qiao’s Advanced Optical Fabrication, Instrumentation, and Metrology Laboratory."

Rochester Institute of Technology part of $15 million NSF Engine award to bolster region’s laser technology, manufacturing, education, and workforce.