As data from the Anti-Defamation League shows antisemitism growing on college campuses in recent years and spiking after the Hamas-Israel conflict, a New Jersey Institute of Technology researcher is doing her part to combat the trend by developing a training model that will help prepare mental health professionals who work with Jewish students. Modern students are hearing people chant slogans without understanding the intentions behind the words, or finding swastikas and other anti-Jewish graffiti on their campuses, but they are not encountering suitably trained counselors and psychologists…

Professor Jim Geller, chair of the department of Data Science, attended a January conference hosted by the Computing Research Initiative’s (CRA) LEVEL UP program, whose mission is to build a nation-wide consensus of best practices among computing departments to increase diversity through inclusive recruitment and course offerings. CRA leads the effort in collaboration with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society and National Science Foundation (NSF), along with diversity-focused organizations such as the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI),…

Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and the department of Computer Science are proud to count Fulbright Scholar Fernando Vera Buschmann as a member of its Ph.D. candidate team of researchers, one of a growing number of Fulbright award recipients who have chosen NJIT as an incubator for their professional goals and objectives. He came to NJIT from Osorno, a small town in Patagonia, far south of Santiago, Chile, with a background in physics and pedagogy having obtained his M.Sc. at the University of Chile. His fascination with better understanding the human brain inspired him to pursue…

Hrishi Sidhartha ’15, has turned an elective into a career to envy. As a game designer with Grinding Gear Games, he spends his day shaping Path of Exile 2, one of the most anticipated action role-playing games on the market. He had to relocate to the other side of the world — or at least down under — to join the Auckland, New Zealand-based company, but making necessary life adjustments was literally in the name of the game when offered a once-in-lifetime opportunity. Sidhartha returned to New Jersey and NJIT for the first time since moving seven years ago as a special guest speaker for…

Professor Cristian Borcea from the Department of Computer Science recently returned from a brief tour of China and Japan where he presented research papers on his continuing work with federated learning for mobile devices as well as a novel approach for improving the revenue of online publishers in real-time Ad auctions. His paper on Ad auctions, done in collaboration with Forbes, was among 93 accepted out of over 1,000 submissions that were selected for presentation at the premiere research conference on Data Mining, the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023), in…

You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov. A paper on their Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM) system was recently presented at the 2023 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium in New Orleans, along with a demo of the solution. Geller, along with co-principal investigators Ph.D. candidate Navya…

New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are still learning about, and while it holds the potential for great opportunities, it can also create significant challenges within the legal community,” State Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner stated. The committee will “examine potential policies and practices in numerous areas, including the…

Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startup and entrepreneurial support to the masses, he primarily relied upon sheer will and the conviction to settle for nothing less than 100%... the rest would be learned over time.  Now, after his company was acquired by the market leader in startup ecosystem building, Mehta at 26 runs by the…

Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pascual and Joshua Quizon — was the top NJIT finisher, second overall, for their treasure-hunting software where anyone can upload an image and its GPS coordinates, and then players must find the same location, take a picture and upload it themselves. If the location and image are a match, then you…

Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large language models and how they’re used in the business world. "Data science is a new discipline that enables data-driven decisions across real-world problems in areas such as healthcare, security, retail and advertising, human resources, urban sustainability and entertainment," said NJIT’s David Bader,…