Ying Wu College of Computing

MakeNJIT, in Second Year, Focuses on Infrastructure Hardware Hacks

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
An all-freshman team, Rackify, was the top NJIT winner and third overall at this year’s MakeNJIT hardware hackathon, creating a smart bicycle rack that automatically locks your ride by activating an RFID reader and extending an arm through the spokes or frame. Rackify members Raghav Bharath, Prabhav Sharma and Tanush Tammanagoudar (electrical and computer engineering), Burhan Naveed (computer science) and Matthew Levine (mechanical engineering) came up with the idea in response to MakeNJIT’s themes of smart- and urban infrastructure. The device could be retrofitted to traditional bike...

NJIT Computer Science and Engineering Experts Talk About 'Smart' Cities

Monday, April 22, 2024
Accomplished computer science and engineering professors at New Jersey Institute of Technology were among the featured speakers at a conference about creating “smart” cities that was organized by two centers of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management: the Leir Research Institute and Hub for Creative Placemaking. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Guiling “Grace” Wang talked about her research into developing responsive traffic signals whose timing adjusts based on the volume of traffic. Artificial intelligence is central to that project. In addition, Wang, who’s also...

NJIT's Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates Future Visionary Leaders

Friday, April 19, 2024
NJIT’s annual celebration of its top student researchers kicked off at the 2024 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, which once again highlighted a stunning array of innovation and discovery from every corner of the STEM disciplines. Now in its 19th year, the showcase competition featured 68 diverse research projects presented by students from NJIT’s six colleges at the university Campus Center. As always, Dana Knox presenters had the chance to connect with the campus community to explain the significant impact of research endeavors they’ve spent their undergraduate and graduate studies...

NJIT Researcher: Neural Networks Can Mediate Between Download Size and Quality

Friday, April 19, 2024
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth has been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski. Chakareski and his team, collaborating with peers from University of Massachusetts-Amherst, devised a system to make network requests err on the side of smallness and upscale the difference through a neural network running on the receiving hardware. They call it BONES — Buffer Occupancy-based Neural-Enhanced Streaming — which will be presented at the ACM...

Navya Martin Kollapally Wins AMIA Reviewer Award

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Navya Martin Kollapally M.S. ’21 (Computer Science), and a 2024 Ph.D. candidate, has been honored with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Reviewer Award for her work in support of the 2024 AMIA Informatics Summit, held in Boston this past March. The award is given to peer reviewers based on effort, dedication and fieldwork on their subject of expertise. Her research focuses on social determinants of health through non-clinical factors. She previously co-authored a paper titled “Integrating Commercial and Social Determinants of Health: A Unified Ontology for Non-Clinical...

Scholarship Winners and Donors Come Together in Special Celebration

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The 35th annual Scholarship Brunch took place April 12, bringing together generous benefactors who have created scholarships at NJIT with the students benefiting from their support. The event humanizes and demonstrates the impact of giving back and removing a financial burden to those who need it most. In a unique opportunity, scores of scholars attended with each one proudly representing — and meeting — their donors.  Zooming out, the aggregate numbers are impressive: $40 million in financial aid was provided for the 2023-2024 academic year. With more than 90% of NJIT’s first-year...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty...

JerseyCTF 2024 IV Earns Its Place Among the Competition

Monday, April 8, 2024
The fourth edition of the annual Jersey Capture the Flag competition has become a brand standard among the global millions who depend on the dashboard CTFTime to remain informed and participate in the highly popular information security competitions. This year’s event drew many repeat visitors to the NJIT campus as well as online from around the world to brave the 24-hr. marathon and hack their way through a total of 67 challenges in cryptography, binary exploitation/reverse engineering, forensics, web exploitation and OSINT (open source intelligence). The competition drew 1,700...

Ph.D. Candidate's AR Project May Transform Physical Science Learning

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Can learning your periodic tables in chemistry class actually be fun? Kantida Nanon, a Ph.D. candidate, thinks her augmented reality (AR) solution may provide the eureka moment that every science teacher seeking to better engage students has sought for decades. Her project titled “Enhancing Chemistry Education Through AR” uses the technology to motivate better learning outcomes for students who may sometimes struggle when learning logical or fact-based information. The game-based project features an immersive experience matching atomic numbers with element names. By matching elements,...

Senior Spotlight: Ruby Kapoor and Jason Zheng

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Like many NJIT students, senior computer science majors Ruby Kapoor and Jason Zheng have made the most of their undergraduate experience. They were the recipients of an NSF mini-grant to further explore creating successful entrepreneurship startups. The $3,000 award brought them to the Professional Convention Management Association Conference (PCMA) in San Diego to network with market researchers and gather information on their minimal viable idea for building a wireframe to support local event-based businesses and vendors related to student clubs, tourism and many others, through an app...

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