Alumni News

A contingent from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), which included new dean Oya Tukel, crossed the country in June to attend the Avanade FUEL Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Conference in Pomona, Calif. Among those invited to the prestigious event were 30 Avanade Scholars from three North American universities.

Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe.

Jason Baynes says he was fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of a pre-college program that exposed him to science and math in many more ways than his school did. In summer 1989, before he entered eighth grade, his mother — then a math supervisor in Teaneck who was always on the lookout for summer programs for her students — enrolled him in a program at NJIT called the Junior High School Urban Engineering Program (JHSUEP).

It’s a Thursday morning and Naomi Adjei is a bit tired, having recently finished another 13-hour shift as an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It’s hard!” she said with a laugh. “The hours are hard. … [But] I’m learning clinical skills. I’m learning surgical skills. … You’re learning content, but also how to be a professional.”

Four years ago, David Isbitski ’98 was the first person hired by Amazon for its newly created Alexa skills kit group. Today – tens of thousands of skills later – he is the voice-activated technology’s chief evangelist, and one of the keynote speakers at the VOICE 2019 Conference. Held on NJIT’s campus for the second year in a row, the conference is the world’s largest annual gathering of voice technologists, developers and executives.

This year marks four decades of NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) providing STEM education and college preparedness to rising fourth- through 11th-grade students in New Jersey. With NJIT Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus Howard Kimmel as a lead figure in its development, CPCP was founded with the aim to “increase access to scientific and technological fields among traditionally underrepresented populations and to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in secondary and elementary schools.”

Ensuring the security of the software is of paramount importance to any company, and more so for the companies who develop and supply the software. With opportunities for an infection of malware at each step of the software supply chain, securing the chain has become a key concern in a world controlled by interacting software systems.

Continuing its mission to lead in computing technologies, NJIT announced today that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity together with new research centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence, cutting across all NJIT colleges and schools, and conduct both basic and applied research.

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $7,996,530 grant to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Pennsylvania College of Technology to develop industry-driven strategies for apprenticeships in advanced manufacturing fields. The funding is part of the U.S. Department of Labor's awarding of $183.8 million in grants to 23 academic institutions and consortia nationwide. The ultimate aim is to satisfy industry's enormous demand for trained American workers.