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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Student Survey Finds Surprising Opposition to Remote Work in Labor Jobs

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.

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

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.

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

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

NJIT Hosts Symposium on Boosting Safety Culture Into Undergraduate Education

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.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Ranked #9 in Nation

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.