Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jorge Medina - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2022

Thursday, February 17, 2022
Jorge Medina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research focus is on the optimization of networked communications systems, network programmability, and blockchain under the advisement of Professor Roberto Rojas-Cessa. Jorge is passionate about coding and learning about innovating technology. During his free time, he enjoys cooking, going to the gym, and watching movies and documentaries. What attracted you to NJIT? I worked in the telecommunication sector acquiring...

Qi Kang - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022
Qi Kang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His advisor is Professor Mengchu Zhou and his Co-advisor is Professor Mesut Sahin from Biomedical department. His research is about Neural Modulation. This includes focused ultrasound stimulation (FUS) and transcranial electrical current stimulation (tECS). He has a journal (brain stimulation) publication about focused ultrasound stimulation on an anesthetized rat. He won the first prize in ECE’s first Ph.D. Stories contest in fall...

US News and World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs Top 100 Nationally, Top 3 Statewide

Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Three of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, and in the top three for New Jersey institutions. More colleges and universities than ever before began offering distance learning options in response to COVID-19. However, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or hybrid, online degree programs as part of the university’s vision of a global campus. NJIT was recognized in 2021 for its technological innovations and digital transformation initiatives. The publication ranked...

Dina Ayman, NJIT Alum and Professor, Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Tech

Thursday, December 9, 2021
Her 20s have been a busy time for Dina Ayman: earning two degrees at NJIT in the same year, working at Intel and Microsoft, teaching at her alma mater and starting a consultancy dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Along the way, she achieved her dream of working at the intersection of engineering and technology, and became a role model for women interested in STEM. And now Forbes is recognizing all that, by naming her to its 2022 list of 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology. Ayman, a program manager at Microsoft, adjunct instructor at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and founder...

Ishani Chatterjee - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2021

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Ishani Chatterjee successfully defended her dissertation defense on December 1, 2021. She worked under the guidance of Professor Mengchu Zhou, Distinguished Professor. Her research is in Natural Language Processing, Big Data, Optimization Models, and Data Analytics. Her research topic directly relates to the Sentiment Analysis of customer reviews focusing on online retail stores like Amazon. She has published papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Entropy, etc., and a reviewer of technical papers for WF-IOT 2021, IEEE Access 2020. She completed...

Mohammad Arif Hossain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2021

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Mohammad Arif Hossain is a Ph.D. candidate at the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is currently working under the supervision of Distinguished Professor, Dr. Nirwan Ansari. His research areas include Cloud and Edge Computing, Distributed Machine Learning, Future Generation Wireless Networks, etc. Mr. Hossain has published several research articles in Q1 journals such as IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Sensors, etc., and conferences. He also contributed to several IEEE Standardizations (IEEE...

Student Wins Scholarship for Helping Reduce Electron Leakage in Blue LEDs

Thursday, October 28, 2021
Andressa Marangon, a senior electrical and computer engineering major at New Jersey Institute of Technology, won a $1,000 scholarship from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for her role in improving the brightness and power consumption of blue LEDs that technologically lag behind their red and green cousins. That might not affect your iPhone or TV anytime soon, she said, but it's important for applications such as healthcare products and industrial machinery. Red, green and blue lights are required to make all other colors, but blue LEDs tend to leak electrons because they have a...

Ludvik Alkhoury - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2021

Monday, October 18, 2021
Ludvik Alkhoury is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Alkhoury works under the advisement of Professor Moshe Kam, Dean of Newark College of Engineering, in signal and image processing, detection and estimation, physiological signals and signs, and wearable sensors and devices. Alkhoury served as the president of the NJIT’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) for the academic year 2019-2020. He shares his experience. What attracted you to NJIT? When I was...

New Methods Can Protect Data Privacy Against Quantum Computing

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
NJIT Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Joerg Kliewer is looking to help preserve privacy by busting conventional wisdom about the future of computer security, which states that today's data protection measures, especially in Internet-of-things devices, stand absolutely no chance against the hacking power that will soon be wielded by the new era of quantum computers. Quantum computers remain years away from being in the mainstream, with their promise that data can be represented by predicting the state of electrons, rather than computing by the traditional approach of flipping...

An Engineer and an Architectural Historian Win the 2021 Excellence in Research Awards

Thursday, October 7, 2021
Nirwan Ansari, an electrical and computer engineer who is a pioneer in the field of communications networks, and Gabrielle Esperdy, an architectural historian and trailblazer in the digital humanities, are the winners of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research award for 2021. Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, called the two awardees “exceptionally consequential researchers.” “Both Nirwan Ansari and Gabrielle Esperdy have made fundamental contributions – they’re both gamechangers in their distinctive ways – in very different arenas,” Dhawan said. “What links them is...

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