Research from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) addresses a critical issue in AI-powered code generation: the prevalence of security vulnerabilities. Ph.D. student Khiem Ton and his colleagues have developed SGCode, a system that combines advanced AI techniques with security analysis tools to detect and fix potential security flaws as code is being created.

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list.

The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajectory — climbing 19 spots since 2022 — and supports the findings of other publications that rank U.S. universities, which emphasize value and return on investment.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million.

Assistant Professor Pan Xu in the Department of Computer Science has been honored with having two of his papers selected by the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The co- authored paper on Promoting External and Internal Equities Under Ex-Ante/Ex-Post Metrics in Online Resource Allocation was one of only 3.5% accepted in the highly competitive Spotlight category.

Distinguished Professor Guiling (Grace) Wang in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) recently co-organized a special event, Finance Day, under the theme of “Finance” as part of KDD 2024 held in Barcelona Spain with her collaborator, Daniel Barraio, AI research director at JP Morgan Chase. Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy, along with MD Mouinul Ph.D. ’23, and Ph.D.