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

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to nine months of additional post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, up to $30,000. Recipients must be enrolled in a STEM degree program or seeking a teaching certificate. Jaime Esquilin majored in information technology (IT) and minored in management information systems, with plans to pursue his master’s in IT...

Milad Shojaee - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2022

Monday, November 7, 2022
Milad Shojaee is a PhD candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT. He is currently working at Networked Controls and Intelligent Diagnostics (NCID) Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Mohsen Azizi. His research interests include decentralized control of renewable energy generation systems. What do you think would be an impactful move in your research area? Although renewable energy generation systems have had outstanding impact on the generation-load balance, they have introduced new issues and challenges in the...

Shuai Zhang - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2022

Monday, October 10, 2022
Shuai Zhang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT in 2022. Currently, he is working as a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interests include 6G wireless communications, Internet of Things, Mobile Edge Computing, optical networks, UAV-assisted communications and artificial intelligence in wireless networks. What do you think would be an impactful move in your research area? UAV-assisted heterogeneous network has attracted significant attention due to...

Students Will Design Hacking Apps, Hardware Exploits to Gain Experience

Thursday, October 6, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom. One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group of (virtual) Breaking and Entering. Leaders of both groups make it clear that they don't teach or condone illegal activities. Instead, they're devoted to educating members on how to identify system weaknesses and protect against those. NICC was inspired...

Xueyu Hou - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2022

Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Xueyu Hou a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at NJIT, advised by Dr. Tao Han. Her research interests include deep Learning acceleration in mobile and edge computing, security of machine learning, distributed machine learning on edge, mixed reality, and live volumetric streaming. Before her current Ph.D. program, she was in power electronics area where she did research on power semiconductors and microgrids. What do you think would be an impactful move in your research area? My research focuses on integrating state-of-the-art deep learning techniques into...

NJIT Research on Nanoporous Materials Would Make Electronics Stronger, Safer

Thursday, September 1, 2022
Scientists at NJIT and in Germany are working to understand how ions congregate around nanoporous materials, which could lead to safety and reliability improvements for electronic components such as supercapacitors and microscopically tiny actuators. Nanoscale porous materials are used in everyday objects such as household water filters and gas masks, but there is little research into how such surfaces behave when interacting with electrolytes, which can create internal stress that changes the material's physical properties. The electrolytes form when materials are exposed to water,...

Ph.D. Student's Research Can Reduce Wind Turbine Costs by $15M Annually

Thursday, August 18, 2022
NJIT student Akhyurna Swain has a plan to save $15 million per year in the maintenance and operational costs of New Jersey's offshore wind turbines. Swain, studying for her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, determined that non-intrusive monitoring technology controlled by magnets can be paired with machine learning software to realize the impressive cost savings for an 1,100-megawatt project which will begin construction in 2024. Windmill technology began in the first millennium of the common era, but modern high-tech turbines reach a new plane of productivity. They'll be located 15...

Akhyurna Swain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2022

Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Akhyurna Swain is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently, she works in the Sensor Research laboratory under the advisory of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research area focuses on the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks and smart sensors for online health monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance of the power system.  What do you think would be an impactful move in your research area? Production and supply of clean energy coupled with energy security...

Campus Event Inspires High School Girls to Study Electrical Engineering

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
NJIT's electrical and computer engineering department hosted 65 girls representing 40 high schools in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania last week, teaching the students about opportunities in technical fields where females are historically overlooked. The day-long conference, SHE in ECE, included a panel discussion by female faculty in Newark College of Engineering, instruction using hands-on electronics kits to teach future engineers about household technology, tours of the NJIT makerspace and opportunities to meet current female undergraduates. "The idea of this event is to bring...

Yang Deng - ECE PhD Student of the Month - July 2022

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Yang Deng is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Tao Han at UNICS Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Prior to NJIT,  he was a research assistant at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include 5G/6G network resource management, edge computing, blockchain, and machine learning. What do you think would be an impactful move in your research area? I believe that integrating machine learning methods to automate network resource management and using blockchain to build a more scalable, accessible, and secure mobile network would be some impactful moves to...

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