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Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success. The course, IS-485, catered to students from Albert Dorman Honors College and emphasized real-world projects that apply digital solutions to problems faced by local communities and non-profit organizations. It's an area of emphasis for Lee, who is the Dr. Joel & Dr. Diane Bloom Honors Faculty Fellow in…

About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey . David Bader, director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science, said he is excited to host such prestigious guest speakers representing academia, government and industry. While the Institute hosted several guest speakers in the past year, such as the chief data scientist from The New York Times last spring, the broad scope of this year’s series covers more real-life…

Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students. “I am delighted to welcome our newest faculty members to Ying Wu College of Computing,” said Dean Craig Gotsman. “Even with the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, our enrollment for the current academic year is up and we are blessed with an enthusiastic and diverse student body. We are…

Yiannis Koutis wants to know if a method inspired by electrical laws could lead to a faster and more insightful way of comparing seemingly disparate networks. Koutis, an associate professor of computer science in NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, will study this question for his $150,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation program known as EAGER — EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research — which supports research that is unproven yet potentially transformative. "Suppose one wants to understand the similarities between two, very large unknown networks from an…

In a lab dedicated to developing novel technologies for positive social interaction and trying to understand how people use social technologies, such as social media, mobile phones, and multiplayer games, it is the face-to-face, in-person relationships that students have with each other, faculty, and researchers that attracts them and brings them back year after year. Ask Dr. Yvette Wohn what she thinks about that, and she will tell you that she would have it no other way. Wohn launched the Social Interaction Lab, also known as the Social X Lab, seven years ago when she saw an…

NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery dates back to the 1970s but they've had no semester quite like fall 2020 with all events being virtual. Their annual HackNJIT event (November 7-8), along with the NJIT Women in Computing Society's GirlHacks (October 10-11), are both exclusively online this fall. For the HackNJIT event, "We're still working out the final exact details," explained ACM Chapter President Evan Markowitz, a fourth-year student from Hackettstown majoring in computer science. "Our plan is to have a 24-hour Twitch livestream. We're…

The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More than 115 companies, government agencies and nonprofits are participating in the fair, which will take place Sept. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Among the participants are Facebook, Colgate-Palmolive, Merck, CenturyLink, the FBI, General Dynamics, Turner Construction, the New York State Department…

The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu College of Computing’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program.  CyberCorps, part of NJIT’s Secure Computing Initiative, is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Students pursue an M.S. in cybersecurity and privacy, supported with full tuition and a stipend. In return, students are…

As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate it all because, at the end of the day, the goal is to just stay healthy,” said Emmanuel Odekunle, a biology major and student in the Albert Dorman Honors College. The challenge, he added, is to stay focused amid the necessary changes. Or as he put it, to “make sure that I don’t relent, that I…

Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year as a Fulbright Research Award Scholar. The Ying Wu College of Computing alumnus and future graduate student will travel to Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt, to spend several months at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Working with a team led by prominent Internet security expert Prof. Marc…