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NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...

Ying Wu College of Computing is Honored to Announce Six New Faculty for 2025-2026

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) proudly welcomes six recently appointed assistant professors to the departments of Computer Science and Data Science for the 2025-2026 academic year. These individuals all bring unique expertise that will transform research and experiential learning during a time ...

NJIT Distinguished Cybersecurity Expert is a Panelist at AARP New Jersey 2025 Fraud Summit

Sunday, September 21st, 2025
Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science participated as a panelist at AARP New Jersey’s 2025 Fraud Summit: Decoding Fraud in the Age of AI. He previously spoke at the AARP Fraud Summit: Fraud 360 – Awareness, Prevention & Recovery in spring 2...

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in sp...

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an...

Is Computer Science Education Still Worth It? Let History Be Your Guide

Friday, August 29th, 2025
Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before. The best-known ones happened in the mid-1980s after the PC boom and in the early-2000s after the dot-com boom. There are reasons to believe that computing in general will recover from the current bust, but there might be a shi...

Students Supplement First Line of Defense in Guarding NJIT From Cyber Threats

Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
NJIT is pioneering a safer, more secure campus infrastructure through a partnership with Splunk, a leader in enterprise security, and TekStream Solutions, experts in digital transformation. Together, they are strengthening vital internal campus systems and creating a model for other colleges and uni...

NJIT Celebrates Graduates' Impact and Excellence with Alumni Achievement Awards

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
A cornerstone of NJIT’s annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at the university. These awards honor individuals for their exceptional accomplishments in fields ranging from t...

ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference — Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing and Technology — organized in part by NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing dean Jamie Payton along with informatics faculty Mike...

Spring 2025 Capstone Showcase Raises the Bar for Record Success

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
The spring 2025 Capstone Showcase has set a new benchmark for ingenuity, strategic thinking and record-breaking attendance. NJIT’s signature applied learning experience has now become an inspirational model for other high-caliber universities to emulate. The annual capstone showcases are the culmin...