New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Bloom Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies. The 2025 master’s and doctoral class exemplifies the institution’s commitment to research and scholarship across a diverse range of disciplines.
Taylor Pape presents an interesting mix: honors scholar, year-round researcher, soccer defender, intern and budding educator.
Even her major and minor at New Jersey Institute of Technology — biology and computer science — represents an intriguing hybrid.
Alexander Chen, a sophomore at Morris Hill High School, and Assistant Professor Tomer Weiss in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s (YWCC) Department of Informatics will present their research at the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH conference (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques), August 10-14 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The conference is considered the most prestigious in the areas of computer graphics, visualization and AI.
At the 2nd Annual Bank of America Code-a-Thon, NJIT students made an impression that resonated beyond the competition floor.
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase returned in 2025 to once again highlight the innovative and impactful work of students across disciplines. The event celebrated undergraduate and graduate researchers tackling real-world challenges with creative, technical solutions.
Now in its 20th year, the showcase was also its largest — over 150 presentations by 200+ students spanned all six of NJIT’s colleges.
“Fake it 'til you make it” won’t cut it when defending against cybersecurity attacks, especially when the “bad actors” are some of the best in the industry.
However, if there has ever been a model for “practice makes perfect,” three NJIT student teams are prime examples for their outcomes in the Northeast 2 division of the National Centers of Academic Excellence (NCAE) Cyber Games. This includes the Highlanders-1 team, which not only scored first place in the region but advanced to third place nationally and became the highest-ranked school in the Northeast region.
Git, the most common protocol for computer programmers to keep track of their code, is becoming more secure because of software jointly developed by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York University.
Git underpins services such as GitHub, which alone has more than 100 million active users worldwide. But there have been security concerns over the years, and one problem is that Git-based systems rely on centralized administration requiring users to trust without the ability to verify, NJIT computer science professor Reza Curtmola explained.
A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon.
The clockmakers earned third place overall among 47 teams from several universities. Members of Team Daniel knew that many tinkerers have built such devices, but they designed their own version just for the fun and education of it.
The NJIT JerseyCTF competition is now in its fifth year and has continued to draw competitors on-campus and around the world in a quest to hack their way through a series of information security style puzzles to “capture the flag” and win an impressive array of prizes — along with bragging rights as placeholders among what has become a global phenomenon in CTF competitions.
Graduating NJIT senior Danielle Grunwald and her employer as of this summer, Axtria Inc., are made for each other — Grunwald loves digging into life sciences data to extract useful insights, and that’s the gist of what Axtria does.
Grunwald is wrapping up her studies with a B.S. in data science from Ying Wu College of Computing. She was also an Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, the only female member of the NJIT bowling team (personal high score 268), active with the Nucleus yearbook and an event coordinator for the Student Activities Council.
