“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.The winning team, announced Dec. 5, proposed an online, interactive wayfinding application to help visitors locate rooms and resources. Team members were Aayush Chitransh, Emily Koscielniak, Hannah Repuyan and Haylie Repuyan — Chitransh is a doctoral student in engineering science, and his teammates are all undergraduates…

Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. Several NJIT delegates joined city and state educators and politicians, along with a celebrity or two, at a recent Newark Board of Education partnership meeting, including YWCC Dean Jamie Payton, Chief of Public & Community Affairs Angela Garretson and B.S. in Information Technology student Delali Kumapley…

The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club has proven once again that they are formidable competitors to some of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region at the 2025 ICPC North America Greater New York Regional Contest held at Columbia University, with one team scoring in the top 20 among the likes of Princeton, Cornell and Columbia. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) invites university teams to compete in what is considered the top algorithmic programming contest for college students in the world. Those that win at the regional and national level…

Pritam Sen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at NJIT in May 2025, and has achieved what in horse racing is called the triple crown.He most recently had a first-author paper at the highly competitive ACM CCS conference with his Ph.D. advisor, Professor Cristian Borcea. The paper presented CryptGNN, a security solution for third-party graph neural network models in the cloud. Prior to this, he was part of a research team led by Borcea that earned a U.S. patent in collaboration with AT&T. Now, his dream job as a research scientist with Meta has him working on recommendation models for…

The increasing need to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) pervades every aspect of daily life and has created new opportunities for students across all levels to learn about what is becoming fundamental to transforming the modern business infrastructure. Thanks to several recent additions to the faculty who bring the latest in leading-edge expertise in AI, the department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has designed a series of AI courses that will provide a foundation for students from bachelor’s to Ph.D. level with or without a background to…

Art is rooted in thought and emotion. The greatest music and drama allow viewers and performers alike to feel joy, anger or sadness as a shared communicative experience. But how does someone with no voice “sing” in an opera? Assistant Professor Mark Cartwright, who leads the Sound Interaction and Computing (SinC) Lab in the Ying Wu College of Computing, and a collaborative team of researchers have innovated a breakthrough in text-to-speech technology that not only gives voice to a non-verbal character and the performer playing him but allows him to sound fully and expressively human. An…

Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect tracker that earned third place at the 2025 Pfizer Digital Hackathon. The app aids in making side effect tracking simple, reliable and accessible, with a goal of reducing medication dropout, improving adherence, empowering patients and promoting equity in health outcomes for all communities. The team cites many reasons for why…

Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers. Truesdell works on the technical challenges inherent in multiple people trying to simultaneously interact through virtual reality. She previously worked with VR gaming and pediatric cancer specialists at Drexel University and Yale University School of Medicine, so she signed on again to help them study how simulations can help patients understand what will happen…

In a new article featured in Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis explores how cyberpsychology — the study of the two-way relationship between people and technology — is reshaping modern computing. Presenting more than a single experiment or dataset, Ancis offers a sweeping synthesis that pulls together decades of behavioral and computing research. Her article, “Cyberpsychology’s Influence on Modern Computing,” argues that understanding the human mind is no longer optional in the digital age — it’s the missing half of…

New Jersey Institute of Technology's newly-announced Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Enterprise AI will be available to students beginning in fall 2026, with the intention of developing next-level professionals that extends beyond a traditional technical degree. Offered by NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and rooted in the foundations of traditional Information Systems, the B.S. in Enterprise AI is designed to directly address the shortage of tech talent needed to meet the critical demands of the evolving AI-driven industry ecosystem. By transforming the gap between AI innovation and…