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Ying Wu College of Computing Starts New Effort to Recruit and Retain Women

Tuesday, June 9, 2020
A new plan to recruit and retain more women as computer science majors is beginning in earnest this summer at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing.

AI Software Will Help Regional Planners Build Sidewalks Database

Thursday, May 28, 2020
Community and urban planners throughout North Jersey will soon have a thorough digital inventory of their sidewalks, based on a unique use of geospatial intelligence software led by Ying Wu College of Computing Associate Professor...

Senior Success: Google Hires Software Engineer David Michaelson

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
David Michaelson is the latest Ying Wu College of Computing graduate to enter Google's software engineering residency program.

Student's App Helps Organize Remediation of Lead Pipes for Water Supply

Thursday, May 14, 2020
A recent graduate in computer science played a small but important role in fixing the city of Newark's problem of lead in its public water supply.

Smartphone Users Can Keep Privacy During Opt-In Behavior Research

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Informatics department Assistant Professor Hai Phan is studying how to protect privacy in mobile applications that track a user's behavior.

NSF CAREER Award for Simplifying Crowdsource Requests

Friday, April 24, 2020
NJIT's Senjuti Basu Roy, assistant professor of computer science, received a prestigious National Science Foundation award announced this month for her research addressing inefficiencies of...

Computer Science Alum Leads Mask-Making Effort in Morris County

Friday, April 17, 2020
A team of teachers in Morris and Essex counties, looking to do their part to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has produced almost 500 face masks, 700 face shields and 1,400 ear guards, led by NJIT alumna ...

NJIT Security Expert Applies Startup's Tech to COVID-19 Tracing

Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The healthcare process of identifying who traveled close to contagious patients, known as contact tracing, typically assumes a lack of privacy — but NJIT cybersecurity expert Kurt Rohloff said his software is a good match to fix this.

With an NSF RAPID Grant, NJIT Engineers Build a New Model to Track COVID-19

Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A team of environmental engineers at NJIT is developing a new way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, by combining advanced statistical methods with models that incorporate environmental conditions, such as wind speed,...

Ying Wu Grad Students to Get Quantum Computing Course in Fall '20

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Quantum computing will be offered as a new course for computer science graduate students beginning next fall.This marks the first time the subject is available outside of a special-topics course or independent study in the Ying Wu...