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

Ranyang Zhou - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2023

Thursday, March 2, 2023
Ranyang Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Shaahin Angizi at ACAD Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Before joining NJIT, he was an M.S. student at George Washington University in D.C. His research interests include Processing-in-Memory and Row Hammer Attack Mitigation. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? Chip size is severely limited today due to physical limitations. Therefore, we must open our minds to improve performance in other directions. Processing-in-Memory is a good breakthrough for the dilemma. In addition, application...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast to the annual NJIT ACM chapter's HackNJIT, which skews to the software side. Registration is here. Student organizers are from the electrical and computer engineering department, and specifically from the NJIT IEEE chapter. But it's open to all, as there are there are bountiful hardware angles...

Anushreya Ghosh - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2023

Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Anushreya Ghosh, is a 4th-year PhD student advised by Dr. Alexander Haimovich. She completed her MS here at NJIT and continued to stay on here for her PhD. She is originally from India and have been staying in the US for the last 5 years. Her research area is Wireless Communications. She  works with non-cooperative radio frequency sources and use mixtures of these signals to perform Blind Source Separation. Currently, she is focused on frequency hopping sources and Direction of Arrival estimations. What would you say that could be the next big thing in your area of research? I...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs, Two in the Top 50 Nationally

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online graduate programs placed among the top 50 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, with another breaking into the top 100. NJIT was ranked No. 29 for its information technology programs, a two place jump from last year; and No. 47 for engineering, a 16-place rise. In addition, NJIT’s online master’s business program was ranked No. 95, and the online MBA was No. 132. All ranked programs saw improved scores over last year, according to the publication. "NJIT’s online graduate programs consistently...

Student Survey Finds Surprising Opposition to Remote Work in Labor Jobs

Friday, January 20, 2023
People with hands-on labor jobs may prefer to go to work even if their tasks could be done remotely through robotics, according to a survey of 218 students at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The survey was conducted by computer science major Matthew Nicol, a senior from Allenwood, whose research is part of a National Science Foundation grant by Cong Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. After meeting Wang through a friend in a humanities course, "I thought it was very interesting, the idea that you could have someone at the port operating the crane from...

NJIT Receives $1.3M in Federal Funding for Engineering and Manufacturing Initiatives

Wednesday, January 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $1 million for new initiatives that will bolster engineering education, as well as manufacturing and mechatronics apprenticeship training, under the federal spending bill signed by President Joe Biden. The $1.7 trillion spending package carves out $1.3 million for the two new NJIT initiatives. The community college pre-engineering network initiative will develop community college-serving programs to strengthen the pathway and readiness for traditionally underserved students to pursue a STEM degree. The advanced...

Yusuf Ozkan - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 2023

Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Yusuf Ozkan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT. He is a teaching assistant and a member of the Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP). He is working under the advisory of Professor Joerg Kliewer. His research focuses on LDPC codes and reinforcement learning. What is it like to be a member in a big group at a research center? It is awesome to be a member of a big research group. It gives me the opportunity to collaborate with other scholars. The Ph.D. program has so many...

Cem Benar - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2022

Thursday, December 15, 2022
Cem Benar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at NJIT. His doctoral research aims to develop a theoretical framework for neural networks. Neural networks have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. Most neural networks are not inherently interpretable and are created as black-box models. Their architectures are decided experimentally due to the lack of a theoretical framework. Building evidence and insights are needed to construct a theoretical framework. His team systematically analyzes the performance of a given neural network as a...

NJIT Hosts Symposium on Boosting Safety Culture Into Undergraduate Education

Thursday, December 1, 2022
NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive when they enter the workforce and understand the concept of safety in their professions. Patrick Natale ’70, ’75, executive director of the United Engineering Foundation, member of the NAC and a member of NJIT's Board of Overseers, moderated the symposium, which is in its third leg of a cross-...

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Ranked #9 in Nation

Tuesday, November 22, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.   NJIT's top-ten result in the U.S. section of the global ranking is a point of pride for Professor Durga Misra, department chairman since 2021. Misra joined the university in 1988 and said he is most proud of the department's research collaboration and student engagement. Misra's own research involves transistors and how to stop them from leaking electricity. It becomes...

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