Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a microcontroller to gauge its wearer’s posture and report their status to a mobile phone application. It learns about each individual wearer, building a custom dataset. Its developers were NJIT students Matthew Tujague and Ricardo Vergara, Victor Jiminez from NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and...

YWCC Student Angel Cazares Awarded Prestigious 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship

Monday, November 4, 2024
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship. This recognition celebrates Cazares' academic dedication and leadership in technology and innovation, marking a significant milestone in his journey and reinforcing NJIT’s growing reputation for developing young leaders and problem-solvers. Cazares recently represented NJIT at the renowned HSI Battle of the Brains competition, a 16-hour event where teams from Hispanic-Serving...

Women of Ying Wu College of Computing Study Bias in AI at Annual Grace Hopper Conference

Friday, November 1, 2024
Members of NJIT’s undergraduate and graduate Women in Computing Society groups attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia took full advantage of opportunities for professional development, networking and industry insights that support their growth in technology fields. The GHC, hosted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists, with a mission to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. From engaging with industry experts on emerging AI trends and...

NJIT Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
An NJIT computational research team made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Teams were tasked to solve a highly complex problem: analyzing the intricate network of neurons in the brain of a Drosophila melanogaster — commonly known as the fruit fly. Teams had to treat this neural network as a massive, interconnected graph and work to determine the best possible ordering of neurons. The goal was to maximize the efficiency of the brain's neural pathways, creating an optimal flow of information within this tiny but surprisingly complex system. NJIT’s team was led...

7 NJIT Students Awarded Through NSF's CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service

Thursday, October 24, 2024
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected seven high-caliber students to join the fall 2024 cohort of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program (SFS). The competitive scholarship is awarded following a rigorous application and interview process where faculty evaluate candidates based upon a unique combination of their academic standing, strong social skills, self-motivation, excellence in teamwork, passion and commitment to embracing and comprehending the initiative, and dedication to serving the country....

Panel Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Can Only Guess, Not Reason for Itself

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Expert panelists took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence, at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month. The panel moderator was institute director David Bader, who is also a distinguished professor in NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing and who shared his own thoughts on AI in a separate Q&A recently. The panel members were Kevin Coulter, field CTO for AI, Dell Technologies; Grace Wang, distinguished professor and director of NJIT’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research; and Mengjia Xu, assistant...

NJIT Nationally Recognized for Serving Students Connected to the Military

Monday, October 7, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned national recognition for how it serves students connected to the military, be they active members or veterans. NJIT is featured in G.I. Jobs’ list of 2024-25 Military Friendly Schools, earning a silver distinction. More than 1,800 schools participated in the survey, with only 537 making the list for going above and beyond. G.I. Jobs considers performance from the survey, along with data available from state and federal agencies, and focuses on institutions' ability to meet thresholds in: student retention, graduation, job placement, loan...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-2025

Monday, October 7, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to formally announce the appointments of four new assistant professors who will lead research and education initiatives in the departments of Data Science and Informatics during the 2024-2025 academic year. These new faculty members have collectively contributed pioneering research in areas of machine and contributed learning (distributed and federated learning) and creative, novel applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) as well as gaming. Their innovations have influenced healthcare related to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s...

NJIT PhD Researcher Develops Secure Code Generation System, Achieves Early Conference Acceptance

Friday, September 27, 2024
Research from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) addresses a critical issue in AI-powered code generation: the prevalence of security vulnerabilities. Ph.D. student Khiem Ton and his colleagues have developed SGCode, a system that combines advanced AI techniques with security analysis tools to detect and fix potential security flaws as code is being created. In a remarkable achievement, Ton's paper on SGCode has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '24), only one week into his Ph.D. program. This...

NJIT Celebrates Innovation and Excellence at 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards

Friday, September 27, 2024
A cornerstone of NJIT's annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at NJIT. The 2024 awardees include pioneers in green technology, public health, architecture and entrepreneurship. Collectively, they represent NJIT's dedication to driving progress across industries through innovation, community service and thought leadership. Their contributions are felt locally and globally, as they solve pressing challenges in environmental sustainability, public health, food safety...

Pages