School of Technology and Computing
Doctor of Information Technology Forum
Spring 2026

Hosted by CityU’s Center for Cybersecurity Innovation and School of Technology and Computing (STC), the Doctor of Information Technology (DIT) Forum is open to faculty, professionals, and students from any discipline, university, or professional organization.  At the end of this quarter, DIT students can present their research projects to their peers and faculty members. This Forum will provide opportunities for students, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the influence and impact of applied computing on the future of our planet and our society

Event details

Date: Thursday, Jun 18th, 2026
Time: 4:30PM-5:30PM PT
Contact: ravidivakarreddy@cityuniversity.edu

Advisors

brian maeng
DR. Brian Maeng
Professor,
School of Technology & Computing
Session Chairs
Sumit KC
Giridhar Gopi Krishna
Presenters
Cindy

Cindy Kirkman

The Impact of Impressive Learning Environment Complexity

Course: Dissertation

 This dissertation examines how the complexity of immersive learning environments affects learning outcomes in fully asynchronous higher education. The study focuses on faculty experiences with immersive technologies, including how design, cognitive load, usability, navigation, feedback, and accessibility influence student learning and engagement.

Albert

Albert Samigullin

Exploring Root-cause Diagnosis in Agentic AIOps through dedicated skill layer

Course: DIT650

Cloud computing environments generate massive volumes of telemetry data. Rapidly identifying and resolving incidents is critical, as outages can cause substantial financial and operational damage. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has become essential for analyzing this data and accelerating incident response. While large language models (LLMs) are already being applied in AIOps, as comprehensively surveyed by Zhang et al. (2025), recent research—the framework proposed by Zota et al. (2025), and the multi-agent architecture by Pradhan (2025)—has begun exploring Agentic AIOps. In these systems, autonomous agents analyze telemetry, diagnose root causes, and recommend or autonomously execute remediation actions. While Agentic AIOps represents a significant advancement in autonomous IT operations, current frameworks primarily emphasize agent architectures, workflows, and orchestration layers. It would therefore be interesting to investigate whether introducing a dedicated skills layer—a set of reusable capabilities for tasks such as querying telemetry, correlating events, and checking resource dependencies, etc.—could further improve root-cause analysis in complex cloud environments.
stanley

Stanley George

AI-Driven Privacy Engineering for Post-Uninstall Data Discovery and Deletion

DIT 650

Modern applications increasingly leverage AI, ML, and cloud technologies, resulting in large-scale collection and processing of personal and organizational data. This seminar topic explores AI-driven privacy engineering techniques for automated discovery, classification, and deletion of residual data to improve privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance after application uninstallation.

eli

Eli Taylor

Exploring Blockchain Support Mechanisms for Federated Learning in Heart Disease Prediction

DIT 650

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