Matt Huenerfauth at RIT
Matt Huenerfauth is a Professor and Dean of the Golisano College of Computer and Information Sciences at the The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
The college of computing is home to top-ranked degree programs in game design and development (#3), cybersecurity (#18), and computer science (#57) in US News and World Report. The college has been home to many "firsts," including the first software engineering and first information technology degree programs in the world, and the college has a new BS program Artificial Intelligence.
Huenerfauth is a researcher in computing accessibility for people who are deaf, with work on captioning and sign-language technologies, and he is the recipient of over $5.4 million in external research funding, including an NSF CAREER Award.
- Chair of the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS), the leading professional society in the field of computing accessibility.
- Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Recipient of RIT's Trustees Scholarship Award, the university's highest honor for faculty research.
- Five-time winner of the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (most frequent winner in the history of the ASSETS conference, which has a 25% acceptance rate and is the leading computing research venue in the field of accessibility)
- Former Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) journal (maximum two terms, 2013-2019)
- Member and founder of the Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research (CAIR) and Director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Lab (LATLab)
RIT is a private, doctoral research university in the Finger Lakes region of New York. RIT was ranked #88 among National Universities in the U.S. News and World Reports Best Colleges Rankings 2026, and it is the third largest producer of undergraduate STEM degrees among private U.S. universities. RIT is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, with over 1,000 Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.
This website contains information about his Research and his background and experience (Curriculum Vitae). Information about courses is available on the Teaching page, and links to other resources appear on the Interests page. A listing of Contact Information is also included on this site.