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

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from 118 to 103 to 97 and now 86 — and supports the findings of other publications that rate U.S. universities, including Money and The Wall Street Journal, which placed NJIT as the second-highest ranked public institution nationally. In key areas like student social mobility and...

Yongjie Guan - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2023

Friday, September 1, 2023
Yongjie Guan is a fifth-year Ph.D. student whose passion lies at the intersection of technology, research, and real-world problem solving. With a background that spans both academia and practical application. He is deeply invested in designing and deploying real systems such as Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems, and distributed machine learning systems. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? I believe that generated models could become a game-changer in the field of AR/MR. Currently, sending and...

Army Supports Summer Interns, Designing New Robots at NJIT Research Center

Thursday, August 31, 2023
A little-known R&D facility, operated by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute with the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal for its primary client, is beginning to thrive one year after moving off-campus. The facility is called COMET — Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering and Training — located about 30 miles northwest of NJIT’s Newark campus, close to Picatinny, which is the Army headquarters for conventional weapons development. COMET hosts students and faculty throughout the year, not just from NJIT but from various institutions, who all share civic and scientific...

NJIT Earns National Distinction for 'Best Value' From Niche

Thursday, August 31, 2023
Economic mobility was a new factor in Niche ranking New Jersey Institute of Technology No. 45 among all U.S. institutions for “Best Value,” reaffirming the university’s return on investment to its students and alumni. NJIT earned the No. 1 spot for “Best Value” among New Jersey public institutions. Niche, a college ranking and review platform, evaluated 4,048 public and private four-year colleges nationwide and developed separate lists for the best academics, value, food, dorms and college life. NJIT also received national accolades for its academic programs, earning “Best College”...

NJIT Showcases the Most Impactful Research and Innovation from Students

Monday, August 21, 2023
Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of a subject. Mohan’s research area in the Sensorimotor Quantification and Rehabilitation Lab (SQRL) is the ongoing pursuit of improving concussion management.  “Concussion management can be a pretty subjective process. We are leveraging objective approaches like sensorimotor quantification...

Yuan Zhao - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2023

Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Yuan Zhao is in his third year of pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Under the advisement of Dr. Ali Abdi at the Center for Wireless Information Processing, his research focuses on developing engineering-oriented methods to model decision making processes with rational inattention in economics and financial markets. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? The rational inattention model was introduced by Christopher A. Sims, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. It has been a center of study over a couple of...

For Sam Sabet, Transferring to NJIT Led to Triple Degrees and a Dream Job

Monday, July 24, 2023
Sam Sabet, the new Chief Technology Officer of industrial audio firm Shure Inc., has an NJIT degree for every season of his career. After transferring from American University in Cairo, Sabet arrived in Newark in 1995 and earned a B.S. in what was then called computer information systems. He returned for an M.S. in electrical engineering to help with his unexpected career in underwater telecommunications at AT&T, and then opted for a Ph.D. in information systems and management, aiding his career evolution into leadership at Crestron Electronics. Shure recruited him in June and Sabet...

Mohammad Mostafa Al Mahfuz - ECE PhD Student of the Month - July 2023

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Mohammad Mostafa Al Mahfuz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is currently working in the Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices Lab (NMD) under the supervision of Professor Dong-Kyun Ko. His research focuses on colloidal quantum dots for infrared detectors and vertical thin film transistors. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? Quantum dots are intriguing due to their tunable optical and electronic properties, opening up potential...

Zhenlu Qin - ECE PhD Student of the Month - June 2023

Friday, June 2, 2023
Zhenlu Qin 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 Prof. Qing Liu of the HPC Lab. His research interests are in HPC computing, data reduction and data compression. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? I think the combination of HPC with emerging applications and new architectures will become a big thing. Notably, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into HPC applications has...

PSE&G President Tells NJIT Class of 2023 to 'Move Forward with Purpose'

Friday, May 19, 2023
The head of New Jersey’s largest utility urged the Class of 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to embrace change and remain positive in the face of challenges ranging from climate change and social inequity to artificial intelligence. “Finding solutions will require new faces and perspectives and for us to reject the status quo,” said Kim Hanemann, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. “I encourage you to stay hopeful and press on even when things seem scary. What the world needs now is creative thinking and for the next generation of leaders — for all of you — to...

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