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Computing Faculty Li and Xu Receive NSF Starting Career Awards

Monday, May 11, 2020
NJIT’s Jing Li and Pan Xu, assistant professors of computer science, have received the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and...

From Shoeshine to Software Engineer: Perseverance Pays Off

Monday, May 4, 2020
The spark that led to Braulio Tonaco’s interest in going back to school was lit while working as an in-house shoeshiner at the Goldman Sachs offices in New York.

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.

Meet the 2019-2020 New Faculty in Ying Wu College of Computing

Friday, April 24, 2020
Whether promising young scholars, researchers with years of experience or seasoned instructors, each year, individuals from around the world join the faculty of Ying Wu College of Computing.

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 ...

AI Enlisted to Study Location Discrimination in Ride-Hailing Services

Friday, April 17, 2020
Imagine you just wrapped up a busy day at work and are rushing to pick up your child from day care. You call for an Uber, but the driver never arrives and doesn’t answer your calls. Pressed for time, you cancel the ride and find alternative...

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,...

Cybersecurity Expert Qiang Tang Named Top Researcher Under 35

Tuesday, March 31, 2020
NJIT's Qiang Tang, an assistant professor of computer science at the Ying Wu College of Computing, was named to MIT Technology Review's annual 35 Innovators Under...