Computer Science department chairs from several New Jersey universities and community colleges met at the Ying Wu College of Computing’s (YWCC) NJIT@JerseyCity location to discuss the state of computer science education with a focus on improving access for a broader diversity of students as part of a forward-looking AI workforce.   Newly-appointed YWCC dean Jamie Payton, whose work has centered on expanding racial, ethnic and gender diversity in technology, opened the meeting by stressing the value of building a network of partnership institutions that can share information and best…

Five professors and administrators from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have been recognized as "Enterprising Women in Commerce" by Commerce Magazine, an honor that highlights outstanding achievements across a range of industries. The honorees are among the select group chosen by the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, celebrating excellence in fields including accounting, architecture, environmental services, financial services, health care, higher education, human resources, law, marketing, non-profit work and real estate. Tara Alvarez - Professor, Department of…

Spotifeel is a new computer program to help scientists evaluate the relationship between your mood and your playlist, developed by NJIT rising senior Rain Nutt for her undergraduate summer research. Existing efforts tend to evaluate all listeners by the same set of music, whether they like the songs or not, so Nutt decided to gauge them on their own choices. Any loss of objectivity in a study would be countered by an increase in the test subject’s comfort level, she asserts. “You can work from where they are, instead of them coming to you,” she stated. The method gauges a Spotify user’s 25…

Professor Jim Geller, chair of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing, and Angela Garretson, chief of public and community affairs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), along with Soon Ae Chun, professor and director of the information systems and informatics programs at the College of Staten Island campus of the City University of New York (CUNY), are co-authors on a poster describing a proposed crime prevention and response program evaluation system that has won the best poster award at the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government…

Jamie Payton is the new dean of NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. She met with NJIT News for a Q&A session about her views on computing education and questions about current events in computing. The following transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Her Roadmap to NJIT NJIT News: Northern New Jersey is incredibly dense and diverse. How do you like it here so far? Jamie Payton: I do really like it! I've lived in Philadelphia for a number of years. I really understand that style of interaction. One of the things I found — I grew up in Oklahoma — it's a very different style of…

An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her device was “all the women who can't get easy access to mammograms and try to maybe build something, or start to build something that can help improve that problem.” Her device will use piezoelectric polymers, which generate charge in response to mechanical stress, and have much potential for…

New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of its College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a former member of the university’s Board of Trustees. Hu’s contribution marks the single largest philanthropic commitment ever made by an NJIT graduate to the university, and will provide crucial funding to JHCSLA that will enhance STEM education and research across campus, and open a range of…

The legacy of Kelly O’Connor, who was an active alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology for 30 years, endures with two new scholarships that will serve female students who are interested in STEM. The Kelly A. O’Connor Pre-College Scholarship will cover the cost of summer programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students in elementary, middle and high school who need financial help. It will be awarded annually to at least three girls. The Kelly A. O’Connor Opportunity Scholarship will help first-year undergraduates who previously participated in pre-college…

Associate Professor Hai Phan in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science, and a pioneer in Trustworthy AI, has recently co-authored a handbook that will guide anyone from expert to beginner who seeks to venture into the realms of trustworthy federated learning. "Handbook of Trustworthy Federated Learning" is published by Springer Publishing, a leading source of health care books, textbooks and medical journals for medical professionals, professors and universities, is co-authored by My T. Thai, research foundation professor in the department of Computer & Information…

An international collaboration seeks to innovate the future of how a mechanical man’s best friend interacts with its owner, using a combination of AI and edge computing called edge intelligence. The project is sponsored through a one-year seed grant from the Institute for Future Technologies (IFT), a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).  Assistant Professor Kasthuri Jayarajah in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing is researching how to design a socially assistive model of her Unitree Go2 robotic dog that will…