Department of Informatics

Imagine the ability to leverage sensitive data with full-fledged compliance and security. Encryptech, a cloud computing service focused on handling sensitive data securely, was created by sophomore S-STEM scholar Jonathan Kozlik and his collaborator with a goal to make the training of regulatory-compliant AI models on sensitive data both affordable and scalable. Their innovative pitch for Encryptech at HackMIT caught the attention of Avalanche, a renowned platform for decentralized finance and enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. Impressed by their vision, Avalanche invited the team...

Distinguished Professors David Bader and Guiling “Grace” Wang and Professors Cristian Borcea and Vincent Oria in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) served as part of Governor Phil Murphy’s AI Task Force for the state of New Jersey, a team comprised of industry leaders, academic experts, consumer advocates, and government innovators tasked with establishing programs, trainings and tools that advance the state’s leadership in AI. Recommendations by the Task Force were recently published in The Report to the Governor on Artificial Intelligence, which aims to create economic opportunities...

Potentially deadly mathematical errors are prevalent among mobile applications used in clinical and emergency room settings, but a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Ying Wu College of Computing has found provable solutions that may save lives. The applications, known as medical score calculators, can be downloaded by anyone and are popular among less experienced health care staff. But the apps are rife with errors, sometimes because of flawed source data from medical reference tables and other times due to bad implementations from developers who don’t understand...

Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a microcontroller to gauge its wearer’s posture and report their status to a mobile phone application. It learns about each individual wearer, building a custom dataset. Its developers were NJIT students Matthew Tujague and Ricardo Vergara, Victor Jiminez from NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and...