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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.

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 25^th Annual International Conference on Digital Gove

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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). 

Materium Technologies, a startup company with deep NJIT roots, is bringing data science innovations into the slowly evolving field of solar energy panels.

Startups are always a gamble, but the Materium team has a good hand, with two pair of Highlanders — recent alumni Sheldon Fereira (M.S. ‘23) and Scott Daniel (M.S. ‘24), advised by Professor Nuggehalli Ravindra and Adjunct Instructor Michael Jaffe. Their collective scientific expertise spans the worlds of artificial intelligence, applied physics, biomedical engineering, and semiconductors.

Fernanda Somohano Ortega ‘27 is eyeing cybersecurity jobs in the sports world, or better yet an opportunity to work in Barcelona and support her favorite soccer club. With the help of the Innovation Fellow of The Knowledge House (TKH), the NJIT computer science major is closing in fulfilling her career aspirations.