Payscale has released its 2019 College Salary Report and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has placed #53 out of over 4,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. in the mid-career salary rankings. In addition, NJIT is #1 for state schools in mid-career salary. “NJIT students are in high demand and our alumni enjoy remarkable success, because we specialize in preparing graduates to thrive in what is unquestionable a tech economy,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom. “Every major global industry, at its core, is driven by technological advancement. That’s why our students average…

Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The $500,000 grant that comes with the Fellowship will be used to continue to advance deployability, usability and performance of open-source libraries, such as the open-source PALISADE homomorphic encryption library developed by Rohloff and his collaborators in academia and the U.S. defense industry. This enables organizations to protect their data so that computations may be performed…

The Makerspace at NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s training-focused, rapid prototyping facility, is the winner of a $125,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to advance careers in advanced manufacturing. NJIT is one of 12 winners of the SBA’s MaTCH Pilot Competition, a program designed to help workers secure entry-level advanced manufacturing jobs and the option to pursue further training in an apprenticeship program or a college education in advanced manufacturing. The university’s makerspace secured a top-tier award designated for facilities with “…

Three times a year, NJIT’s Osama Eljabiri makes the trip to Medellin, Colombia, as part of his Real World Connections (RWC) program. RWC mirrors a program he started more than a decade ago in New Jersey for middle school and high school students, designed to help them innovate, create and gain real-world experience in computing skills. Eljabiri even received an award from the New Jersey Governor for the program in 2017. Eljabiri, a senior lecturer at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, was inspired to take the RWC program outside the U.S. because he believes education is a great equalizer…

The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research. The research aims to develop faster learning patterns to make it easier for companies to extract actionable information from extremely large data sets. Institute Director and Distinguished Professor David Bader joined NJIT last month from Georgia Tech, where he previously served as chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing. Data Science is a fast-growing area that impacts every industry. As the volume of data…

Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and stop signs with roundabouts, they wanted to be prepared for the questions that would come. They had data to support the decision: statistics from the Federal Highway Administration clearly showed that when used properly, roundabouts can decrease the number of traffic accidents and reduce traffic…

The underground culture of hardcore drug abuse is dynamic and evolves rapidly. Street names for drugs, hot spots where users go for their fix, and new, dangerous strains laced with different substances change frequently and regularly.  For nonprofits aiming to help users overcome their addiction, getting real-time, actionable information on this fast-changing landscape can be difficult.  Assistant Professor Hai Phan, of the informatics department within NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, believes that big data and machine learning could provide the answer. This would help…

Ensuring the security of the software is of paramount importance to any company, and more so for the companies who develop and supply the software. With opportunities for an infection of malware at each step of the software supply chain, securing the chain has become a key concern in a world controlled by interacting software systems. A collaborative project by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) has developed a system that helps close security gaps and provides companies with certification that their software supply chain remains free of…

Continuing its mission to lead in computing technologies, NJIT announced today that it will establish a new Institute for Data Science, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and development in all areas pertinent to digital data. The institute will bring existing research centers in big data, medical informatics and cybersecurity together with new research centers in data analytics and artificial intelligence, cutting across all NJIT colleges and schools, and conduct both basic and applied research. The Institute for Data Science will be directed by Distinguished Professor…

The focus of the event was why New Jersey is the best place for entrepreneurs and businesses in the U.S., as well for foreign firms seeking to enter the U.S. market, to invest in and grow their businesses. And the interest in doing so was indeed high, with upward of 150 people from over 40 industries — from accounting and architecture, to insurance and investment, to manufacturing and marketing and more — attending the inaugural ExploreNJ conference. A joint effort of Choose New Jersey, an economic development agency based in Princeton, and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey…