Alumni News

Qirui Tian - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2025

Qirui Tian is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. Qing Liu in the ECE Department at NJIT. Qirui joined Dr. Liu's lab in September 2021 and has research that focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC), data reduction, I/O and storage systems.

Men's Volleyball Sweeps D'Youville for Final Non-Conference Match

The NJIT men's volleyball team moved back into the win column, sweeping visiting D'Youville, 3-0, to conclude the non-conference portion of the schedule on Saturday afternoon inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. NJIT snaps a nine-match skid and improves to 8-12 overall while D'Youville moves to 5-11.

Peterson's Gem Guides Highlanders Past Maine in Series Finale

Brandon Peterson posted his best outing of the season so far, tossing 6.2 shutout innings while allowing just one base hit as NJIT baseball salvaged the final game of its series with Maine with a 2-0 victory. How it Happened

NJIT Undergrad Wins Association for Women in Mathematics' National Essay Contest

As most students were buried in final exams last December, Iniobong Ofonime took an extra assignment outside her usual work as an engineering student — rather than applying mathematics to solve problems, she decided to profile an inspirational mathematician. Her efforts have added up to a first-place finish among undergraduates in the Association for Women in Mathematics' (AWM) national essay competition, announced fittingly on International Women's Day.

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

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.

YWCC Makes an Impact at AAAI Conference 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, in addition to co-coordinating YWCC’s sponsorship of the AAAI Student Hackathon with Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brook Wu and serving as one of 10 Women Mentors for the women mentoring lunch program.

NJII and Cognome Partner to Advance AI-Powered Health Care Solutions

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), and Cognome are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to transform patient care with AI and ML solutions. This partnership leverages Cognome's ethical AI tools, developed at two leading academic health care systems, with NJII's professional services to deliver next-generation clinical intelligence, operational efficiencies and outcomes improvement.

NJIT Alumni Women Leading Architecture Design Technology

The architecture, engineering and construction industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by technological advancements reshaping how projects are designed, coordinated and executed. Three alumnae of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design — Gayatri Desai ’14, Veronica Quintero ’07 and Alexandra Pollock ’03 — are leading this evolution.

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

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 applications, and selected only 1,000 participants.

Offense Backs Peterson's Strong Start as Highlanders Sweep UMBC, 11-3

Brandon Peterson struck out six over seven innings of work while his offense erupted for 11 runs as NJIT completed a three-game sweep of UMBC on Sunday, 11-3. How it Happened

A pair of NJIT Rocketry Club miniature spaceships launching

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

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 devised a unique approach: next year, they want to make the nose cone of their Project Lotus rocket unfold like flower petals, revealing a drone that takes control.

From 3D Bioprinting to Disease Tracking, NJIT Showcases its Groundbreaking Labs

Throughout the year, NJIT researchers focus on unsolved problems in areas such as medical science, energy sustainability and cybersecurity and test new methods to tackle them. Each spring, at the annual Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase, they step out of their labs to present their progress to the campus community.

NJIT Hosts Gubernatorial Candidates Forum on Small Business Growth

NJIT served as the venue for a March 19 gubernatorial forum dedicated to exploring the challenges and solutions for fostering small and diverse business growth across New Jersey. The event, initiated by Jeff Cantor, CEO of the Veterans Chamber of Commerce, highlighted the need for improvements and support for these vital economic contributors.

NJIT Unveils VR Crime Scene Tech, Research at Nation's Largest Forensic Conference

NJIT’s forensics program made an impression at the 77th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Conference in Baltimore’s Convention Center, unveiling new research and innovations that tackled this year’s conference theme, “Technology: A Tool for Transformation or Tyranny?”

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT at No. 36 Nationally in Game Design

New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks No. 36 nationally among the top 50 undergraduate schools for game design, according to The Princeton Review. That’s an improvement of 13 places from NJIT’s last ranking. Regionally, NJIT also stands out, at No. 10 in the Northeast. The high marks support the latest findings of Animation Career Review, which ranks NJIT at No. 15 on the East Coast and No. 1 in New Jersey.

Former NJIT President Saul Fenster Passes Away at 91

NJIT mourns the passing of Saul K. Fenster, the university's sixth president, who died peacefully at his home in Long Branch, New Jersey, on March 15, 2025. He was 91 years old.

Highlanders Break out Bats in Win at Villanova, 13-3

Four Highlanders crushed home runs and MT Morrissey punched out a career-high eight batters as NJIT flexed its muscles in a 13-3 victory on Saturday afternoon over Villanova. How it Happened

Roubalio Earns Bid to the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championships

Niels Roubailo has earned a bid to the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championships announced by the organization on Tuesday. His selection was an at-large bid after finishing ninth out of 47 fencers in the men's epee competition at the 2025 NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional on March 8.

NJIT's Wulver supercomputer, like most of its type, has familiar hardware and the Linux operating system

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

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.

SIGCHI Design Jam Showcases the Fruits of Mixing Computing with Creativity

The annual SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) Design Jam happened during an inspired nine-hour designathon beginning on Saturday, March 8 at 9 a.m. and finishing at 1 p.m. the following day. The event invites students studying human-computer interaction, digital design, web and information systems and cyberpsychology to form teams of four to create an interactive prototype (Figma, front-end code, paper prototype, etc.) that will solve a real user problem.

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