Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT Partnership with Prudential Addresses Tech Challenges

Monday, July 10, 2023
Longtime Newark neighbors, Prudential and New Jersey Institute of Technology, have joined forces to help Prudential solve technological challenges while providing exciting opportunities for NJIT students. Like many leading financial organizations, Prudential has introduced cutting-edge digital technologies into its daily operations, increasing internal efficiency and productivity, and improving customer experience and satisfaction. With the obvious benefit comes the organizational challenge of acquiring and maintaining a workforce capable of developing and integrating the relevant...

Hispanic Association of Computing College Students Takes Off at NJIT

Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Hispanic Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing has taken off and is already seeing a great turnout in their inaugural meetings.  This Hispanic-oriented club seeks to cater to the needs of Hispanic computing students and create a group that will allow them to support each other with computing coursework and make ties that create a homelike atmosphere at NJIT. Michelle Bautista ’24, the president of HACCS, feels proud to take on the responsibility of starting this club from the ground up, but gives special thanks to James Geller...

NJIT's Suresh Kumar, Lecturer & Entrepreneurial Director, Elected President of TiE NJ

Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Suresh U. Kumar, senior university lecturer and director of entrepreneurial programs in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), has been elected by the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) as the next president of the New Jersey chapter, effective July 1, 2023. TiE is one of the world’s largest entrepreneurship support organizations with over 30,000 members in 14 countries helping 25,000 startups with an economic impact of over $1 trillion, according to KPMG. A serial entrepreneur, professor, mentor, angel investor, nonprofit leader, county elected official and author...

How Video Games, a Support System and Becoming a Leader at NJIT Helped Me Manage My Mental Health

Monday, June 19, 2023
Growing up, I was very quiet, shy and introverted. As I started to discover myself in my teenage years, I began coming out of the closet at age 12. Because of this, I felt isolated at the time and so I found solace in video games and online forums and communities. I have always struggled with my mental health and it's taken me many years and a lot of work to be able to talk about it so openly. I used to try to hide it or make light of it, but it's been very painful and tough. I cannot emphasize enough that if it were not for video games, I do not think I would have survived high school....

Ying Wu College of Computing Graduates 15% More Students Than Last Year

Thursday, May 25, 2023
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) awarded a total of 1,159 degrees at all levels during combined May 2023 graduation ceremonies at Newark’s Prudential Center and NJIT’s WEC arena. This marks a 15% increase in graduating students from the previous year. Of this, 528 undergraduates received a bachelor of science (B.S.), 619 graduate students received a master of science (M.S.), and 12 doctoral candidates earned their Ph.D. It is notable that, for the first time, YWCC has graduated more M.S. than B.S. students despite undergraduate enrollment increasing from 1,800 to 2,500 during the...

For NJIT Faculty, Artificial Intelligence is a Learning Opportunity

Thursday, May 25, 2023
Public artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are being embraced by faculty across New Jersey Institute of Technology as the latest classroom tool, just like the introductions of videoconferencing, laptops, computer-aided drafting and pocket calculators that came before. AI itself is an established technology that emerged from research labs in the 1950s — here's a Newark College of Engineering chemical engineering dissertation using AI techniques in 1974. AI also makes periodic dalliances into consumer life, such as computer chess games in the 1980s and IBM's Jeopardy-dominating...

PSE&G President Tells NJIT Class of 2023 to 'Move Forward with Purpose'

Friday, May 19, 2023
The head of New Jersey’s largest utility urged the Class of 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to embrace change and remain positive in the face of challenges ranging from climate change and social inequity to artificial intelligence. “Finding solutions will require new faces and perspectives and for us to reject the status quo,” said Kim Hanemann, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. “I encourage you to stay hopeful and press on even when things seem scary. What the world needs now is creative thinking and for the next generation of leaders — for all of you — to...

NJIT and Fulbright University, Vietnam Partner in Master's Pathway Program

Thursday, May 18, 2023
The increasing interest in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) as an educational destination for Vietnamese students has inspired a partnership between NJIT and Fulbright University, Vietnam (FUV). The partnership will offer FUV undergraduate students a unique opportunity for a U.S. educational experience in the global tech hub of the New York metro region, and credit towards an accelerated master’s degree.  Success stories of students such as Hang Nguyen ’22, currently a software engineer at Google, and Phung Lai, Ph.D. ’22, who will soon join the faculty at the University of...

NJIT Computing Dean, Craig Gotsman, Awarded Patent for Location Privacy

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Anyone who downloaded a contact tracing app for the COVID pandemic may have had concerns about privacy risks of location tracking, but such concerns are now addressed in a unique way through a patent recently awarded to Craig Gotsman, dean of NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Location data could easily fall into the wrong hands, making people nervous about using certain kinds of applications such as COVID tracing. To help, Gotsman and longtime collaborator Kai Hormann of Universita della Svizerra Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, invented a method to easily hide the location data in a...

With Encouragement, NJIT Honors Scholar Pursues a Master's at NYU

Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Samara Augustin arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology as one of the first Mayor’s Honors Scholars and leaves as an Albert Dorman Honors Scholar and GEM Fellow. In her years in University Heights, Augustin — who’s from Newark and attended NJIT with her twin sister, Samantha — helped younger students as a member of the STEMentors Club and made the Dean’s List, among other accomplishments. And through it all, she had the support of the university’s Educational Opportunity Program. Now, the Class of 2023 scholar is off to New York University to build on her bachelor’s in computer...

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