Experience Day 2025: Accepted YWCC Students See the Fun Side of Computing

Friday, April 4th, 2025
All hard work and no play makes “techies” anxious for more. 244 recently accepted high school seniors and their parents need not worry. Although the Ying Wu College of Computing’s (YWCC) programs are rigorous (that is the reason why they are the most significant generator of tech talent in the NY me...

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wei, who joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing in 2008 and now holds the role of distinguished professor, also became an IEEE Fellow in 2024. “Being elected...

Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive Hackathons

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally. Sponsored by tech giants like NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, TreeHacks received more than 12,000...

YWCC Makes an Impact at AAAI Conference 2025

Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) was a notable presence at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence during the month of March. Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research and External Relations Guiling “Grace” Wang served as Sponsorship Chair for this year’s event, i...

NJIT Highlander Model Rocket is a Transformer, Becomes Drone, Lands Itself

Monday, March 24th, 2025
The NJIT Rocketry Club is experimenting with a model that autonomously lands itself standing up, a la SpaceX, but accomplished through novel methods. SpaceX rockets fire their liquid fuel thrusters while descending. Other hobbyists have already tried to duplicate that method, so the Highlanders devi...

NJIT's Bader, Who Helped Invent Modern Supercomputing, Gets HoF Honor

Monday, March 17th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology distinguished professor David Bader was inducted recently into the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art Hall of Fame, located near Atlanta. The museum committee cited Bader, who also serves as director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, for “revolutioniz[ing] the ...

Gender's Role in Climate Change, AI Highlighted at NJIT Women's Tech Conference

Thursday, March 13th, 2025
A keynote speaker at NJIT’s Women Designing the Future conference explained the imperative for holistic approaches to climate change policy, while another shared her tale of breaking through glass ceilings to develop innovative artificial intelligence software. The speakers — Rhiana Gunn-Wright, who...

Zhihao 'Zephyr' Yao Recognized Among IEEE Top 30 Early Career Professionals

Monday, March 10th, 2025
Assistant Professor Zhihao "Zephyr" Yao of the Department of Computer Science at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has been named among IEEE Computing’s Top Early Career Professionals. This prestigious recognition is awarded to individuals worldwide who have demonstrated exceptional early-career a...

Fruit Fly Research Led NJIT Scientists and Edison Teens to Better AI Habits on Supercomputers

Monday, March 3rd, 2025
A competition to compare the brains of male vs. female fruit flies led New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers and two high school students to a second-place finish in the latest edition of the FlyWire Data Challenge, but more importantly the team learned new lessons about using artificial in...

An AI Class That is Exclusive and Needed Now More Than Ever

Monday, February 24th, 2025
A famous movie quote included the phrase, “…what I do have are a very particular set of skills.” The same can be said by Associate Professor Andrew Sohn in Ying Wu College of Computing’s (YWCC) department of computer science, whose course, CS 485: Intro to GPU Cluster Programming, may well be – tech...