Senior Success: Sreya Das Heading to JPMorgan for Cybersecurity

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
Sreya Das, graduating this spring with a bachelor's in computer science and is headed for the cybersecurity team at financial giant JPMorgan Chase, credits much of her success to involvement with activities outside the classroom. Das joined so many NJIT student organizations and academic commitments...

ROI-NJ Features NJIT Leaders in Technology Influencer List

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Business publication ROI-NJ included several NJIT executives and faculty among its annual list of New Jersey's top technology influencers. "Innovating: If your company isn’t doing it, it probably will not be around for very long," the publication stated. "Our goal was to select those who are having ...

NJIT Honors Students for Their Work at the National Cancer Institute and Siemens

Monday, April 25th, 2022
NJIT’s Career Development Services recognized both a graduate student and undergrad in its annual intern and co-op of the year awards. The grad student, Pooja Kittanakere Balaji ’22, is pursuing a master’s in computer science, while the undergrad, Rivka Farrell ’23, is majoring in biology. CDS honor...

Computing Students Provide Real-World Solutions for Bank of America in Capstone Project

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as mor...

GirlHacks Participants Build Apps for Wellness and the Environment

Monday, April 11th, 2022
GirlHacks, an annual event produced by NJIT's Women In Computing Society, partially returned to campus this spring and continued emphasizing its openness to minorities rather than only females. The event, in which most entrants develop mobile applications, was last held virtually in October 2020 whe...

Computing College Helps Non-Profit Build Public Data Access Tools

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
DataSourceNJ, as a startup and non-profit organization aiming to democratize access to local public data, is turning to NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing for technical expertise in data access, organization, analysis and visualization. The organization is led by entrepreneur Michael Goldstein, dat...

NJIT's Vector Captures Numerous Awards at College Media Contests

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universities) at th...

IT Student Sam Itman Helps Modernize Optum

Monday, March 14th, 2022
Some might say that Sam Itman’s direction in life was preordained by his last name, as this “IT man” has had a passion for technology since childhood. He states that he became infatuated with technology because “it presents a world of opportunities to those who are willing to discover them.” As a se...

NJIT Machine Learning Expert Pan Xu Combats COVID Vaccine Inequity

Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
An NJIT computer scientist studied COVID vaccine data from Minnesota to design equitable methods of distributing vital resources during any widespread emergency. The resulting algorithm showed that giving everyone equal access to vital resources isn't necessarily the best approach, depending on the ...

New Research Shows How 2D Layouts Can Be Popped Up into 3D Structures

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Imagine designing an inexpensive, flat and strong structure that bends perfectly into Spaceship Earth from Disney's EPCOT theme park. NJIT's Przemyslaw Musialski, associate professor of computer science, believes his latest research is a step in the right direction, sitting at the intersection of ar...