Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in spring 2024 while interviewing for a summer internship at Google-funded Osmo Labs, ahead of her senior year as a computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology. After graduating in May 2025, she became a full-time software engineer there. “I have kind of an untraditional journey in…

Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an already impressive list of achievements when they graduate in May. The Codeathon challenges BOA student interns to bring an idea for improving the company’s infrastructure to life before a panel of remote judges across the country. Each team is tasked with presenting their projects in 15 minutes…

Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and utilized, thanks to research conducted by recent graduate Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor Tomer Weiss from NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. The two earned a best presentation award for their research paper titled “Simulating Ant Swarm Aggregations Dynamics” at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium for Computer Animation (SCA), and a qualifying poster nomination for the undergraduate research…

Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before. The best-known ones happened in the mid-1980s after the PC boom and in the early-2000s after the dot-com boom. There are reasons to believe that computing in general will recover from the current bust, but there might be a shift away from basic computer science to data science and artificial intelligence (two closely related fields). One needs to remember, however, that in order to be an effective data scientist or AI engineer, a basic understanding of computer science is essential. The idea that programmers will not…

NJIT is pioneering a safer, more secure campus infrastructure through a partnership with Splunk, a leader in enterprise security, and TekStream Solutions, experts in digital transformation. Together, they are strengthening vital internal campus systems and creating a model for other colleges and universities — all while students are provided with real-world, experiential learning. The Highland Watch Security Operations Center (SOC) will be staffed by student team members, which include Amreen Kaur Bhatia, David Bode-Disu, Jesse Gonnerman, Jacob Oniszk, Adhavan Swaminathan, Lea Schaar and…

A cornerstone of NJIT’s annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at the university. These awards honor individuals for their exceptional accomplishments in fields ranging from technology and finance to community service and entrepreneurship — contributions that bring distinction to NJIT while advancing society in meaningful ways. This year’s honorees include leaders in financial services, health care technology, global investment, energy transformation, leadership…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the second-highest rating in Money’s 2025 list of the best universities in the U.S. At 4 ½ stars, NJIT is tied for the highest rated public institution and trails only Princeton University in New Jersey. NJIT is also featured in Money’s national list of the Best Public Colleges. In its profile of NJIT, Money describes the university as a “launchpad for future engineers and architects” with a diverse study body and undergraduates who “primarily attend for the stellar technical education,” adding: Most classes are small (particularly for…

The Princeton Review continues to recognize New Jersey Institute of Technology as one of the best universities in the U.S. NJIT is featured in this year’s edition of the educational services company’s guide, The Best 391 Colleges. Just 15% of all four-year colleges and universities made the guide, which NJIT has been in since its inception in 1992. The selections are listed alphabetically. The Princeton Review also recognizes NJIT in a string of national ”best” lists, including Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Public Schools), Top 20 Best Career Placement (Public Schools), Top 50 Game Design:…

Words have meaning – and so do sounds. They can signal danger, establish a setting or create a mood. But what if you have a complete or partial hearing loss? Accessibility technology has thus far made great strides in captioning words when viewing video content but overlooks the nuances of visualizing elements of environmental sounds, music or speaking style. Even then, how these subtle audio cues are communicated is dependent on the preferences and needs of the individual. Now, through an NSF (National Science Foundation) research grant, Assistant Professors Mark Cartwright and Sooyeon Lee…

New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference — Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing and Technology — organized in part by NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing dean Jamie Payton along with informatics faculty Mike Lee and Alisha Pradhan. Payton, Lee and Pradhan all care deeply about expanding access to computing — Payton is principal investigator of the STARS Computing Corps, Lee is researching code instruction for senior citizens and Pradhan is developing computing resources for dementia patients. More…