Alumni News

In a significant move to align with contemporary values and foster a truly inclusive environment, the Board of Overseers of the Foundation at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) unanimously passed a resolution to change its official name. The governing body will now be known as the "Board of Directors of the Foundation at NJIT.”

Professor Cristian Borcea from the Department of Computer Science recently returned from a brief tour of China and Japan where he presented research papers on his continuing work with federated learning for mobile devices as well as a novel approach for improving the revenue of online publishers in real-time Ad auctions.

Professor Zhi Wei in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status effective Jan. 1, 2024. The appointment is in recognition of his significant contributions to knowledge discovery from biological data and in the field of bioinformatics.

From laptops to cars, society has come to rely on rechargeable batteries — and the demand is only growing. This surge means researchers are racing to figure out the most efficient ways to manage this type of energy storage.  While current designs utilize microparticle-based technology, it’s insufficient for the most affordable, safe and efficient batteries possible. Given advances in nanotechnology, Dibakar Datta, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is interested in deploying nanoparticles as battery electrodes.

The NJIT men's basketball team started its New Year's celebration early with a Block Party at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center on Sunday afternoon, blocking 14 shots en route to a 69-53 victory in its non-conference finale vs. Morgan State. Veteran big man Kjell de Graaf swatted away a career-high seven shots as the Highlanders led wire-to-wire, scoring the first 16 points of the game to build a comfortable lead early. 

You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov.

Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri now have the ears of an estimated 142 million users in the United States, but just how much we trust and listen to AI assistants for daily information may come down to how much we identify with them personality-wise. That’s the takeaway from a study led by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Penn State University examining the impact of voice assistant (VA) personalities on user engagement and decision-making.

Students from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management finished in the top quarter of 2,000 teams in the 2023 Bloomberg Trading Challenge, in turn learning how real-world trading works by earning as much profit as possible in six weeks.

NJIT track and field came away with a pair of America East weekly awards after its first meet of the campaign.