Ying Wu College of Computing

Tejveer "T.J." Singh lives a double life that might be the envy of many other college students. By day, Singh is an unassuming data engineer, armed with an NJIT bachelor's degree in computer science and working from home in Milltown, N.J. for a San Francisco startup company, while also still enrolled at NJIT for an online master's degree in data science. But he rarely tells classmates or faculty that, by night, he's an acclaimed alternative hip-hop artist who played the Indian dilruba at Lincoln Center, shares a producer with mainstream singer Post Malone and plans to release his first...

Just two months after earning a bachelor’s at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Lorraine Nunes '20 landed her first big job, as a software architect analyst at Accenture.  Nunes, who majored in business and information systems, graduated in December after transferring from Hudson County Community College and enriching her studies with real-world experiences, including jobs as a technician and office manager and an internship at a nonprofit. She credits a NJIT counselor and professor for guiding her toward a business-focused major that ultimately helped open the door to Accenture....

NJIT alumna Dayrene Martinez, who earned her electrical engineering degree in 2018, recently published a textbook of Python computer programming after mastering the language as a systems engineer for defense contractor Raytheon. Martinez co-authored the 420-page book, Applied computational thinking with Python: Design algorithmic solutions for complex and challenging real-world problems, with Sofía De Jesús. They met through a professional organization called Latinas in STEM Foundation. "This book is written by two Latina women in STEM which is something you don't see too often," Martinez...

Last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began its inexorable march across the country, NJIT, along with higher education institutions nationwide, faced an unprecedented challenge: how to best move to fully remote instruction, both quickly and safely. Immediately, the university drew upon its technological resources and know-how to provide a virtual learning experience for its more than 11,000 students while completing the spring 2020 semester as scheduled. Within a span of two weeks, the Digital Learning and Technology Support team at NJIT helped prepare faculty to teach online effectively and...