Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as more than class projects.   These technical innovations, which relate to the BofA workforce and customer satisfaction, were NJIT’s first assignment with the multinational investment bank. The results were met with such high praise that continuation projects are already in the works. Phase…

GirlHacks, an annual event produced by NJIT's Women In Computing Society, partially returned to campus this spring and continued emphasizing its openness to minorities rather than only females. The event, in which most entrants develop mobile applications, was last held virtually in October 2020 when COVID was a major theme. This year's entrants returned to a wider array of applications such as environmental responsibility, self-help and social networking. Soumya Khera, a sophomore from Mount Olive, served as the event director. She studies human-computer interaction with minors in computer…

DataSourceNJ, as a startup and non-profit organization aiming to democratize access to local public data, is turning to NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing for technical expertise in data access, organization, analysis and visualization. The organization is led by entrepreneur Michael Goldstein, data analyst Greg Frank and veteran journalist Rod Hicks, who believe that clever software can give small newsrooms and the general public access to information previously limited to corporations, national-level media and people with deep pockets. "We became aware of the impact the moribund state of…

NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universities) at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards, beating out competition from the likes of Hofstra University and Boston College.  Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) judges have praised the paper for its “visuality and a creative selection of…

Sports provide an everyman's opportunity to explain statistical analysis, and the rejuvenated NJIT Data Science Club is all-in. The club already has more than a dozen members and is led by action-hungry graduate students Jake Byford and Parth Patel, president and vice president respectively, who both stepped up when most members of the previous Machine Learning Club graduated last year. Byford and Patel will both earn M.S. degrees in data science. Byford is starting by taking math courses, while Patel will graduate in December. Their plans for the club are what you'd expect — collaboration…

NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game development program blends digital design and information technology curricula to offer students access to faculty and resources that cross disciplinary boundaries and cultivate innovation and creativity. Since 2013, Animation Career Review has published an annual game design ranking that considers…

Some might say that Sam Itman’s direction in life was preordained by his last name, as this “IT man” has had a passion for technology since childhood. He states that he became infatuated with technology because “it presents a world of opportunities to those who are willing to discover them.” As a senior B.S. in Information Technology student (with a business minor), he has already been successful in implementing phase two of his professional goals – literally – as part of an international team of interns who developed ways to optimize Optum Technology’s pharmacy benefit and health care…

An NJIT computer scientist studied COVID vaccine data from Minnesota to design equitable methods of distributing vital resources during any widespread emergency. The resulting algorithm showed that giving everyone equal access to vital resources isn't necessarily the best approach, depending on the methods and desires of emergency authorities, explained Pan Xu, assistant professor in Ying Wu College of Computing. For example, if an emergency disproportionately impacted people of certain ages, ethnicities, incomes, locations or races, then those communities should get greater percentages of…

Imagine designing an inexpensive, flat and strong structure that bends perfectly into Spaceship Earth from Disney's EPCOT theme park. NJIT's Przemyslaw Musialski, associate professor of computer science, believes his latest research is a step in the right direction, sitting at the intersection of architecture, computing and geometry. Musialski calls this Generalized Deployable Elastic Geodesic Grids in a paper he presented with co-author Stefan Pillwein, at Vienna University of Technology, at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 conference last month in Tokyo.  "I am passionate about geometry and I…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification. First published in 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is the primary measure used by rating organizations and governmental agencies to describe colleges and universities. Institutions that grant doctoral degrees are divided into three tiers that represent their level of research activity in terms of research and development…