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Master’s Students in Computing Win Back-to-Back Hackathons for On-the-Spot Solutions

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
When four graduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing aim to win consecutive, highly competitive hackathons by producing two working prototypes in a matter of hours – they “mean it.”  M.S. in Computer Science students Dev Trivedi and Aakash Singh, along with Pruthvi Kadam M.S. ’26 (Da...

Data Scientists Say It’s Not You, It’s Google, In Flap Over AI-summarized Search Results

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Content creators and ordinary Google users alike are harmed by artificial intelligence summaries of search queries, because the summaries are often inconsistent, presenting disreputable results and withholding information from better sources that restrict Gemini training bots, researchers from New J...

Spring 2026 Capstone Showcase Continues to Combine Experiential Learning with Real-World Solutions

Monday, June 1st, 2026
The Capstone Showcase is one of the final steps to completing a degree program in the Ying Wu College of Computing. It’s required of undergraduates, optional for master’s students, and continues to demonstrate how hands-on, practice-based learning delivers real results that exceed expectations – for...

Q&A with David Bader, Recipient of Scientific Computing Honor

Friday, May 29th, 2026
NJIT’s David Bader, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Data Science, was recently named one of the industry’s most influential researchers by Scientific Computing World. Scientific computing, also known as high-performance computing, refers to the hardware, software and networ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill Tells NJIT Class of 2026 to Dream Big and Build What Comes Next

Friday, May 22nd, 2026
NJIT celebrated its undergraduate Class of 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, honoring baccalaureate degree candidates from across the university’s colleges in a ceremony centered on service, achievement, alumni connection and the responsibility to use an NJIT education with purpose. The May 22 ce...

For NJIT’s Master’s and Doctoral Class of 2026, a Charge to Adapt, Persist and Lead

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
NJIT celebrated its master’s and doctoral graduates in two commencement ceremonies that joined academic tradition with messages about resilience, uncertainty, knowledge and the responsibility to use advanced education in service of others. The ceremonies, held May 20 at NJIT’s Bloom Wellness and Eve...

Search-and-Rescue Startup is Three Highlanders and a Robot

Monday, May 18th, 2026
Childhood friends from Bergen County — two seniors and an alumnus — are jointly forming a startup company, MechSense Labs, to apply what they’ve learned at New Jersey Institute of Technology in designing emergency rescue equipment. MechSense’s first invention is a robotic rover called NodeRover, emp...

Avanish Kulkarni, a Lifelong Roblox Fan, Will Become a Developer There

Friday, May 15th, 2026
Avanish Kulkarni got his dream job right out of college. Kulkarni, an Albert Dorman Honors College member who calls East Brunswick home, is graduating with a B.S. in computer science and will move to Silicon Valley this summer to become a software engineer at videogame platform company Roblox. He sc...

CompSci Grad from Springfield Finds His Element in Nuclear Waste

Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Like many computer science majors in the NJIT class of ‘26, Jonathan Malave hoped he might land a job at a name-brand software company such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Google. But when an opportunity appeared on LinkedIn to work for WMG Inc., which makes software for the nuclear waste industry, Ma...

Safety of Artificial Intelligence is Focus for CompSci and Applied Math Student

Monday, May 11th, 2026
NJIT makes entrepreneurs and scientists, but junior Nidhi Sakpal is obsessed with something else — she makes AI safer. Sakpal, an Albert Dorman Honors College member from Boonton double-majoring in applied math and computer science, explained that artificial intelligence safety encompasses the analy...