The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Capstone Program has been a defining benchmark in NJIT’s signature experiential learning approach for senior and select master’s students for over two decades. This graduation requirement tasks students with providing solutions to real-world challenges as entrepreneurs or in collaboration with sponsor companies.

Research on how large language models portray aging, conducted entirely by undergraduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing, was published and accepted to ACM ASSETS, a top venue for computing and accessibility, with recent alumna Sherwin Dewan ’25 (Human-Computer Interaction) as lead author. She credits the opportunity to explore the boundaries beyond her intended major while at NJIT for developing the interest in data analytics that ultimately led to her becoming a first-time published principal investigator. 

Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. 

The increasing need to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) pervades every aspect of daily life and has created new opportunities for students across all levels to learn about what is becoming fundamental to transforming the modern business infrastructure.