Department of Informatics

NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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...

YWCC Student Angel Cazares Awarded Prestigious 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship

Monday, November 4, 2024
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship. This recognition celebrates Cazares' academic dedication and leadership in technology and innovation, marking a significant milestone in his journey and reinforcing NJIT’s growing reputation for developing young leaders and problem-solvers. Cazares recently represented NJIT at the renowned HSI Battle of the Brains competition, a 16-hour event where teams from Hispanic-Serving...

Women of Ying Wu College of Computing Study Bias in AI at Annual Grace Hopper Conference

Friday, November 1, 2024
Members of NJIT’s undergraduate and graduate Women in Computing Society groups attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia took full advantage of opportunities for professional development, networking and industry insights that support their growth in technology fields.  The GHC, hosted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists, with a mission to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. From engaging with industry experts on emerging AI trends...

7 NJIT Students Awarded Through NSF's CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service

Thursday, October 24, 2024
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected seven high-caliber students to join the fall 2024 cohort of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program (SFS). The competitive scholarship is awarded following a rigorous application and interview process where faculty evaluate candidates based upon a unique combination of their academic standing, strong social skills, self-motivation, excellence in teamwork, passion and commitment to embracing and comprehending the initiative, and dedication to serving the country....

Panel Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Can Only Guess, Not Reason for Itself

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Expert panelists took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence, at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month. The panel moderator was institute director David Bader, who is also a distinguished professor in NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing and who shared his own thoughts on AI in a separate Q&A recently. The panel members were Kevin Coulter, field CTO for AI, Dell Technologies; Grace Wang, distinguished professor and director of NJIT’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research; and Mengjia Xu, assistant...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-2025

Monday, October 7, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to formally announce the appointments of four new assistant professors who will lead research and education initiatives in the departments of Data Science and Informatics during the 2024-2025 academic year. These new faculty members have collectively contributed pioneering research in areas of machine and contributed learning (distributed and federated learning) and creative, novel applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) as well as gaming. Their innovations have influenced healthcare related to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s...

NJIT Ranks No. 84, Continues Rise in US News and World Report National Rankings

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list. The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajectory — climbing 19 spots since 2022 — and supports the findings of other publications that rank U.S. universities, which emphasize value and return on investment. This year U.S. News revised its criteria to place greater emphasis on student outcomes, like social mobility, and includes other...

NJIT Computing Student Part of Winning Team in International Competition

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sophomore computer science major Hari Sah was on the gold medal team at this year’s Project/Problem-Based Learning competition, hosted by National Taipei University of Technology, where students from New Jersey Institute of Technology brandished their skills against peers from around the world. Sah and three fellow Highlanders from the Albert Dorman Honors College— data science major Haripriya Kemisetti, biomedical engineering major Aliza Mujahid and mechanical engineering technology major An’Jolae Seabrooks — were each assigned to different teams, composed of international students who...

NJIT Devotes Over $10 Million in New Funds for Push in Artificial Intelligence

Monday, September 16, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million. This new effort will leverage the university’s extensive expertise in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and...

NJIT and Illinois Research on Data Analytics Will Measure Impact of Scientific Literature

Monday, August 26, 2024
Three distinct problems in data science — trend identification in graphs, the quantitative study of scientific literature and evaluation of single-cell genomics — will all be addressed by new research in large-scale network analytics, jointly led by Distinguished Professor David Bader at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The problems have a common challenge of finding patterns, known as community detection, from inside incredibly large datasets. Work is funded by a $648,000 National Science Foundation grant, Cyber-Infrastructure for Community Detection, Extraction, and Search in Large...

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