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Rafael Abreu ’25 (Computer Science) came to the U.S. alone as a high school student from the Dominican Republic because he believed in the American dream: work hard, confront obstacles with grit and determination and create your destiny. He knew it would not be easy. But without risk there is no reward. Thanks to the S-STEM scholarship program and other forms of support he received while at NJIT, he was able to transform his ideas and ingenuity into a new — and better — reality. 

Assistant Professors Yingcong Li, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Lingxiao Wang and Shuai Zhang, four recent additions to the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), had the honor of presenting their research papers at the 2025 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS), one of three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research. 

While ordinary people around the world are waking up to large language models on the cloud, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology want you to know about the power of small models on your own hardware.

It’s not unlike fifty years ago, when people were becoming aware of business computers the size and cost of a car, unaware of the imminent personal computing revolution.

Online education programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) rank among the top 100 in the country, according to the U.S. News & World Report. NJIT earned high marks across degree-granting programs in business, engineering and information technology. 

From Leonardo da Vinci to Nam Jun Paik to Lillian Schwartz, art and technology have a long and intertwined relationship. Beginning in spring 2026, all NJIT students will have the opportunity to explore this productive feedback loop.

The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Capstone Program has been a defining benchmark in NJIT’s signature experiential learning approach for senior and select master’s students for over two decades. This graduation requirement tasks students with providing solutions to real-world challenges as entrepreneurs or in collaboration with sponsor companies.

Research on how large language models portray aging, conducted entirely by undergraduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing, was published and accepted to ACM ASSETS, a top venue for computing and accessibility, with recent alumna Sherwin Dewan ’25 (Human-Computer Interaction) as lead author. She credits the opportunity to explore the boundaries beyond her intended major while at NJIT for developing the interest in data analytics that ultimately led to her becoming a first-time published principal investigator. 

New research shows that AI-enhanced augmented reality, when used for supporting computational thinking skills in K-12 education, can be more effective than simply letting children passively consume content built on the same technologies.

Sixth-generation mobile networks arriving in the 2030s will connect your smart devices by dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the data rates of today, and those networks might employ important research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and the State University of New York - Buffalo to make their promises into reality.

“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.