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Computer Science Professor Zhi Wei Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Friday, January 5th, 2024
Professor Zhi Wei in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status effective Jan. 1, 2024. The appointment is in recognition of his significant contributions to knowledge discovery from biological data and in the field of bioinformatics. Follo...

VROOM Brings AMIA 2023 Conference into the Center of Ontologies

Thursday, December 21st, 2023
You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov...

Grace Wang Joins NJ State Court Artificial Intelligence Committee

Friday, December 15th, 2023
New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are s...

Parth Mehta: Building a Founders Mindset for Life Success

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startu...

Guiling 'Grace' Wang Wins IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2023 Best Paper Award

Monday, November 20th, 2023
IEEE Fellow Guiling “Grace” Wang, distinguished professor, associate dean for research, and founding director of the AI Center for Research in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), has been awarded the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2023 Best Land Transportation Paper Award. This accolade, rec...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pa...

Hot Topics of Generative AI are the Focus of 2023 Data Science Summit

Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large langu...

Eight Students Selected for Highly Competitive NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Eight Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) students have recently begun their journey as members of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program during fall 2023 through the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each recipie...

Record Number of Students Go One-on-One with Employers at NJIT's Career Fair

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
A record number of students and alumni attended New Jersey Institute of Technology’s latest Career Fair — 3,300 — with some 240 companies looking to fill more than 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative education experiences. The macro numbers were impressive — for the third straight fair — but it...

Ying Wu College of Computing Makes NJIT History with Highest Fall Enrollment

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has made history at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Enrollment at YWCC has jumped 12% over the previous record-breaking year to 4,641 students, and now accounts for 37% of the total enrollment at NJIT. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment each rose equally b...