Institute for Data Science Unveils 2020-2021 Talks, Many to Discuss COVID-19

Monday, October 12th, 2020
About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey . David Bader, director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science, said he is excited...

College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty in AI, Databases, Networking

Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students....

Electrical Laws Can Help Break Network Graph Comparison Bottleneck

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Yiannis Koutis wants to know if a method inspired by electrical laws could lead to a faster and more insightful way of comparing seemingly disparate networks. Koutis, an associate professor of computer science in NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, will study this question for his $150,000 research...

Wohn Awarded for Mentoring Women and Minorities in Computing

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
In a lab dedicated to developing novel technologies for positive social interaction and trying to understand how people use social technologies, such as social media, mobile phones, and multiplayer games, it is the face-to-face, in-person relationships that students have with each other, faculty, an...

ACM Chapter Plans Virtual HackNJIT Event, New Special-Interest Groups

Friday, September 18th, 2020
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery dates back to the 1970s but they've had no semester quite like fall 2020 with all events being virtual. Their annual HackNJIT event (November 7-8), along with the NJIT Women in Computing Society's GirlHacks (October 10-11), are both e...

CyberCorps Graduate Student Offers Insight to Security of Video Chat Apps

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu Coll...

Computing Student Wins Fulbright Award for Security Research

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year ...

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

Thursday, August 27th, 2020
As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques de...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of ele...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure ...