Helen and john c hartmann department electrical and computer engineering
2022 Hashimoto Prize Winner - Shihab Hafiz
Shihab Bin Hafiz was born in Bogura, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in July 2014. He completed his Master of Science in Nanoengineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in May 2017. He started his doctoral study at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in September 2017, where he joined Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices lab for his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Dong-Kyun Ko.
Sara Obead - ECE PhD Student of the Month - May 2022
Sarah Obead is a soon-to-be-hooded Ph.D. from the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Ms. Obead worked under the advisement of Professor Joerg Kliewer and has successfully defended her dissertation on April 27, 2022. She also completed her M.Sc. in Telecommunications from NJIT in 2016.
Senior Success: Computer Engineer Suraj Ghumwala Joins U.S. Space Force
Suraj Ghumwala will soon be the first cadet from NJIT's ROTC detachment commissioned into the U.S. Space Force.
The computer engineering major from Rochelle Park said his childhood dream was to be an astronaut, and as the first person in his family born in the U.S. he felt a sense of service to the community, influenced by friends who also joined the military.
Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country.
Sara Ghasvarianjahromi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2022
Sara Ghasvarianjahromi is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT. She is working as a member of the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP) under the supervision of Professor
Joerg Kliewer. Her research focuses on Authentication and Federated learning.
NJIT Ranked Top 100 Engineering Grad School by US News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003. The 2023 rankings mark the seventh consecutive year NJIT has appeared in the top 100.
Engineering Professor Helps Invent New Methods of Data Management
Reflect for a moment on how you'd manage your terabyte-scale hard drive if the data were literally one million times bigger.
Then you'd be working with exabytes, which is the reality for supercomputer users at federal laboratories across the country, one of which is relying on Assistant Professor Qing Liu to mitigate their information storage problems by studying new methods of data reduction.
Ali Emadi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2022
Ali Emadi 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). He works under the supervision of Professor Ali Abdi. His research focuses on systems biology and is cross disciplinary at the intersection of molecular biology, neuroscience, and signal processing. His leisure time is primarily spent working out and amateur modeling.
Jorge Medina - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 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.
Qi Kang - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 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.