46 Notable alumni of
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Rochester Institute of Technology is 1155th in the world, 416th in North America, and 389th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from Rochester Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Matt Hamill
- Occupations
- mixed martial arts fighteramateur wrestler
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Matt Hamill is an American former mixed martial artist and wrestler who competed in the Light Heavyweight division of the UFC. He is a three-time NCAA Division III National Champion in wrestling (167 lb class in 1997, 190 lb class in 1998 and 197 lb class in 1999) while attending the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York.
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Christopher Tanev
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Christopher Tanev is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, and Dallas Stars.
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Michael Smith
- Occupations
- television presentercookrestaurateur
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Michael Dixon Smith CM is an American-born Canadian chef and cookbook writer. He has hosted The Inn Chef, Chef at Home, and judged on Chopped: Canada on the Canadian Food Network. Smith is Prince Edward Island's Food Ambassador, a nutritional activist, and an advocate for sustainable home cooking and farm-to-table cuisine.
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John Resig
- Occupations
- computer scientisttechnology evangelistengineerprogrammer
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John Resig is an American software engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. As of 2021, he works as the chief software architect at Khan Academy.
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Fiona Ma
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fiona Ma is an American politician and accountant. She has been serving as the California state treasurer since January 7, 2019. She previously was a member of the California Board of Equalization (2015–2019), the California State Assembly (2006–2012), and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2002–2006).
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Jake Lodwick
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Jacob Lodwick is an American software engineer, businessman and investor, best known as co-founder of Vimeo.
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Bruce Davidson
- Occupations
- photographerfilmmakereconomistartistcamera operator
- Biography
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Bruce Landon Davidson is an American photographer, who has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities that are usually hostile to outsiders.
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Jerry Uelsmann
- Occupations
- photographeruniversity teacher
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Jerry Norman Uelsmann was an American photographer.
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Tom Keene
- Occupations
- journalistradio personality
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Thomas Ross Keene is an American journalist and Chartered Financial Analyst. He is a host of Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Podcasts.
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Robert Duffy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert John Duffy is a former American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 2011 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 65th Mayor of Rochester, New York from 2006 to 2010.
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Michael Slovis
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- television directorcamera operatorfilm directordirectorcinematographer
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Michael Slovis is an American cinematographer and television director. He is best known for his cinematography on the AMC series Breaking Bad.
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N. Katherine Hayles
- Occupations
- journalistliterary criticelectronic literature writerdocumentary participantwriter
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Nancy Katherine Hayles is an American postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University.
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Brian Chontosh
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major Brian R. Chontosh is a retired United States Marine Corps officer who was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. At the time, he was a platoon commander for Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division.
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Adam Kubert
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Adam Kubert is an American comics artist known for his work for publishers such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including work on Action Comics, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine, The Incredible Hulk, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, and Wolverine.
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Walid Raad
- Occupations
- photographervisual artistperforming artistuniversity teachercreator
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Walid Raad is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is currently a distinguished visiting professor of photography at Bard College, in addition to being a professor of photography at the Cooper Union School of Art.
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Stephen R. Lyons
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Stephen R. Lyons is a retired four-star general in the United States Army who last served as the 13th commander of the United States Transportation Command from August 2018 to October 2021. He previously served as the commanding general of United States Army Combined Arms Support Command/Sustainment Center of Excellence as well as the senior mission commander for Fort Lee, Virginia, from 2014 to 2015.
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Christine Sun Kim
- Occupations
- sound artist
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Christine Sun Kim is an American sound artist based in Berlin. Working predominantly in drawing, performance, and video, Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society. Musical notation, written language, American Sign Language (ASL), and the use of the body are all recurring elements in her work. Her work has been exhibited in major cultural institutions internationally, including in the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition about sound in 2013 and the Whitney Biennial in 2019. She was named a TED Fellow in both 2013 and 2015, a Director's Fellow at MIT Media Lab in 2015, and a Ford Foundation Disability Futures Fellow in 2020.
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Steve Pinizzotto
- Occupations
- ice hockey player
- Biography
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Steven Pinizzotto is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers.
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Alex Kipman
- Enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology
- 1996-2001 graduated with Bachelor of Science in software engineering
- Biography
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Alex Kipman is a Brazilian engineer and inventor who is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Analog AI. Previously, he was the lead developer of the Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses and helped develop the Xbox Kinect.
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Elan Lee
- Occupations
- game designer
- Biography
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Elan Lee is an American game designer, developer, and creator. He has designed games for the Xbox; helped create the world’s first Alternate Reality Games; and with Matthew Inman created the card game Exploding Kittens, whose Kickstarter campaign was the most-backed of its day. He and Inman founded the Exploding Kittens company in 2015.
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Kate Gleason
- Occupations
- businesspersonphilanthropistengineer
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Catherine Anselm Gleason was an American engineer and businesswoman known for her accomplishments in the field of engineering and for her philanthropy. Starting at a young age, she managed several roles in the family-owned Gleason Works in Rochester, New York, and later used her experience to launch a successful career in finance and construction. Through a combination of formal education and work experience with the Gleason Works, she earned recognition as an engineer and was elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1914 as their first woman member. Gleason is the namesake of the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Rick Kittles
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- geneticist
- Biography
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Rick Antonius Kittles is an American biologist specializing in human genetics and a Senior Vice President for Research at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He is of African-American ancestry, and achieved renown in the 1990s for his pioneering work in tracing the ancestry of African Americans via DNA testing.
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Austin McChord
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Austin McChord is an American businessman and computer engineer. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Datto, a data backup company he founded in 2007. By 2015 Datto had a "purported valuation of $1 billion," making it the only "unicorn" company in the state of Connecticut. In December 2017 Datto was sold to Vista Equity Partners for around $1.5 billion and merged with Autotask, with McChord appointed CEO of the combined company. Named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list of leaders in enterprise technology in 2015, he is a periodic author for publications such as Entrepreneur, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.
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David Gantt
- Occupations
- politician
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David F. Gantt Jr. was an American politician who served as a member of the New York Assembly from 1983 to 2020 as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his Assembly tenure, he was a member of the Monroe County, New York Legislature. He was the first and, until the election of Demond Meeks in 2020, only black person to represent Monroe County in the New York Assembly.
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Pete Turner
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Donald Peter Turner was an American photographer.
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Joyce J. Scott
- Occupations
- beadworkerjewelry designerteacherartist
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Joyce J. Scott is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. Each piece is often constructed using thousands of glass seed beads or pony beads, and sometimes other found objects or materials such as glass, quilting and leather. In 2018, she was hailed for working in new medium — a mixture of soil, clay, straw, and cement — for a sculpture meant to disintegrate and return to the earth. Scott is influenced by a variety of diverse cultures, including Native American and African traditions, Mexican, Czech, and Russian beadwork, illustration and comic books, and pop culture.
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David Muench
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 89)
- Occupations
- photographerillustrator
- Biography
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David Muench is an American landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape. He is the primary photographer for more than 60 books and his work appears in many magazines, posters, and private collections.
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Emma Lampert Cooper
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Emma Lampert Cooper was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability". She studied in Rochester, New York; New York City under William Merritt Chase, Paris at the Académie Delécluse and in the Netherlands under Hein Kever. Cooper won awards at several World's Expositions, taught art and was an art director. She met her husband, Colin Campbell Cooper in the Netherlands and the two traveled, painted and exhibited their works together.
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Doug Gillespie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Douglas Charles Gillespie is an American retired law enforcement officer. He served as the 16th Sheriff of Clark County, Nevada from 2007 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Ivan Štefanec
- Occupations
- politicianmanagereconomist
- Biography
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Ivan Štefanec is a Slovak politician and business manager, former member of the Slovak Parliament and current member of the European Parliament for Christian Democratic Movement.
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Foung Hawj
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision producer
- Biography
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Foung Hawj is an American media producer and politician who is a member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 67, which includes the east side of Saint Paul in Ramsey County.
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Tom Curley
- Occupations
- publisherjournalistmedia proprietor
- Biography
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Thomas Curley is an American businessman and journalist who served as president of Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He retired in 2012.
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Marilyn Bridges
- Occupations
- photographer
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Marilyn Christine Bridges is an American photographer noted for her fine art black and white aerial photographs of extraordinary ancient and modern landscapes. She has photographed sacred and secular sites in over 20 countries, including Peru, Mexico, France, Britain, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Australia, Namibia, Indonesia and India. Bridges is a licensed pilot and a Fellow of the Explorers Club. She lives in New York.
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Steven Van Slyke
- Occupations
- engineerchemist
- Biography
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Steven Van Slyke is an American chemist, best known for his co-invention of the Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) with Ching Wan Tang and his contributions to the commercial development of OLED displays. Van Slyke is currently the Chief Technology Officer Emeritus at Kateeva, Inc. Prior to joining Kateeva, he held various positions at Eastman Kodak and was involved in aspects of OLED technology, from basic materials development to implementation of full-color OLED display manufacturing.
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Mato Franković
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mato Franković is a Croatian politician who has been mayor of Dubrovnik since 2017. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), he served as a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2016 to 2017, and is serving since 2020.
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Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla
- Enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology
- Graduated with licentiate in public policy studies
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla is a Kosovan politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2021 and as leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
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Anne Wilkes Tucker
- Occupations
- art historianexhibition curatorcurator
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Anne Wilkes Tucker is an American retired museum curator of photographic works. She retired in June 2015.
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Grant Tremblay
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology
- 2008-2011 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Grant Tremblay is an American astrophysicist notable for research on supermassive black holes, science communication, and public advocacy for large space telescopes. He is currently an Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and was formerly a NASA Einstein Fellow at Yale University, a Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and an Astronomer at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
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Paula Bronstein
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- photographerjournalistphotojournalist
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Paula Bronstein is an American photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is now based in Bangkok where she works for Getty Images. Bronstein was a nominated finalist for the Breaking News 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
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Elliott Earls
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- graphic designersculptor
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Elliott Peter Earls is an American graphic designer, artist and one man band performance artist. He is an artist-in-residence and head of the graduate graphic design department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Ronald Senungetuk
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Ronald Senungetuk was an Iñupiaq artist originally from Wales, Alaska, who worked primarily in wood and metal.
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Jeffrey K. Harris
- Enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in photographic science and instrumentation
- Graduated with Associate of Applied Science
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Jeffrey King Harris is an American aerospace executive who served as 11th director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1994 to 1996. Currently, he is the chairman of the RIT Board of Trustees.
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Emery Bopp
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Emery Bopp was an American artist and long-time chairman of the Division of Art, Bob Jones University.
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Ellen Spijkstra
- Occupations
- photographerceramicistsculptor
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Ellen Spijkstra is a Dutch ceramic artist and photographer, resident in Curaçao.
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Ron Ferri
- Occupations
- artist
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Ron Ferri was an American contemporary artist. He was a multi-media artist employing materials in both traditional and non-traditional ways, like oil on canvas, ink on paper, collage, with later works exploring the digital realm. He was most known for his neon works from the 60s and 70s.
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Tom McMahon
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas M. McMahon was the Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania from January 5, 2004 to January 2, 2012.
