Alumni News

Four NJIT Highlanders are featured in NJBIZ’s Power 100 list for 2024, including President Teik C. Lim. The others are Luis De La Hoz, who serves on NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council, and two members of the Board of Directors of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute: Debbie Hart and Michele Siekerka. In its entry for Lim, the business publication cited the high rank that NJIT achieved from The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse last year: No. 19 in the U.S. — the second highest ranking for a public university.

The NJIT women's tennis team extended its winning streak to five matches with a 6-1 victory over the Hofstra Pride Sunday evening at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility.

David Rothenberg, distinguished professor of philosophy and music at New Jersey Institute of Technology, presented his new book “The Secret Sounds of Ponds”, a book, music and performance initiative.  Rothenberg started this project during the pandemic. When everybody was home, he decided to visit a nearby pond. After “tossing a microphone in,” he was able to capture an entirely new realm: the unexpected and stirring rhythms of some of the smallest and loudest creatures on Earth.

They all came to NJIT for their education, but wound up moving on with more than their degree. While some knew they had met “the one” during their time at the university, others came to this life-changing realization soon after graduating. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, these alumni couples share their stories of meeting and matrimony. Alexandra Carreras '08 and Kevin Carreras '11

The Vermont men's basketball team came into the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center with a 23-game America East Conference win streak, but Tariq Francis and the NJIT Highlanders defended their home court on Thursday and put an end to the nation's longest conference winning streak.

Isabella Gil ’24 siempre ha intentado aprovechar cada oportunidad que se le ha presentado. Después de dejar su Venezuela natal, llegó a Estados Unidos y buscó diferentes formas para integrarse en su nueva comunidad. Llegar al New Jersey Institute of Technology requirió mucho esfuerzo, pero ahora que está aquí, se siente orgullosa de todo lo logrado y lo que todavía le falta por cumplir.  La arquitectura siempre le interesó como profesión, como también el diseño gráfico, diseño de interiores y diseño de modas. 

The NJIT men's tennis team remained unbeaten with its first road win of the season on Sunday as the Highlanders defeated host Binghamton 5-2 for their second win in as many days after Saturday's victory over Bucknell. Box Score

New Jersey Institute of Technology continues to be recognized nationally by U.S. News & World Report for its online master’s offerings in information technology, engineering and business. For 2024, NJIT earned two rankings inside the top 100: No. 31 for its online master’s in information technology and No. 61 for its online master’s in engineering. In addition, the university saw two other online programs make lists for the best in the U.S.: its master’s in business and its MBA.

Mingrui Yin is a second year Ph.D. student at UNICS Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT, advised by Dr. Tao Han. His research interests include machine learning (ML) in 5G network resource allocation, end-to-end live 3D human mixed reality (MR) systems and large language model (LLM) in mixed MR system.