Ying Wu College of Computing

Ying Wu College of Computing and Ben-Gurion University Partnership Presents at VLDB in China

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy from the Ying Wu College of Computing and Assistant Professor Nimrod Talmon from Ben-Gurion University presented a tutorial at the 50th International conference on Very Large databases (VLDB 2024), a flagship data management conference, in Guangzhou, China. The title, Fairness in Preference Queries: Social Choice Theories Meet Data Management, aims to adapt different preference aggregation methods from social choice theories, summarize how existing research has handled fairness over these methods, identify their limitations...

NJIT Ranks No. 84, Continues Rise in US News and World Report National Rankings

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list. The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajectory — climbing 19 spots since 2022 — and supports the findings of other publications that rank U.S. universities, which emphasize value and return on investment. This year U.S. News revised its criteria to place greater emphasis on student outcomes, like social mobility, and includes other...

NJIT Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Develop AI-Powered Solar Eruption Forecasting System

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) researchers harness artificial intelligence for unprecedented insights into conditions in the Sun’s lower atmosphere driving some of the solar system’s most powerful explosions, capable of disrupting critical infrastructure on Earth. NJIT researchers have been awarded a $593,864 National Science Foundation grant to develop a new AI system for more quickly and accurately predicting when explosive space weather events on the Sun will strike, from solar flares to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The three-year project, led by Yan Xu at NJIT's...

NJIT Computing Student Part of Winning Team in International Competition

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sophomore computer science major Hari Sah was on the gold medal team at this year’s Project/Problem-Based Learning competition, hosted by National Taipei University of Technology, where students from New Jersey Institute of Technology brandished their skills against peers from around the world. Sah and three fellow Highlanders from the Albert Dorman Honors College— data science major Haripriya Kemisetti, biomedical engineering major Aliza Mujahid and mechanical engineering technology major An’Jolae Seabrooks — were each assigned to different teams, composed of international students who...

NJIT Devotes Over $10 Million in New Funds for Push in Artificial Intelligence

Monday, September 16, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million. This new effort will leverage the university’s extensive expertise in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and...

Pan Xu Has Two Papers Accepted to Highly Competitive ICML Conference in Vienna, Austria

Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Assistant Professor Pan Xu in the Department of Computer Science has been honored with having two of his papers selected by the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The co- authored paper on Promoting External and Internal Equities Under Ex-Ante/Ex-Post Metrics in Online Resource Allocation was one of only 3.5% accepted in the highly competitive Spotlight category. His single authored paper, Parameter-Dependent Competitive Analysis for Online Capacitated Coverage Maximization...

Several YWCC Researchers Contribute to KDD 2024

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Distinguished Professor Guiling (Grace) Wang in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) recently co-organized a special event, Finance Day, under the theme of “Finance” as part of KDD 2024 held in Barcelona Spain with her collaborator, Daniel Barraio, AI research director at JP Morgan Chase. Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy, along with MD Mouinul Ph.D. ’23, and Ph.D. candidate Soroush Vahidi, also published a paper at the research track of the conference titled Promoting Fairness and Priority in k-Winners Selection Using IRV. All are from the Department of...

NJIT Celebrates Enrollment Milestone After Revamped Convocation Ceremony

Friday, September 6, 2024
The 2024 academic year kicked off with a Convocation that had a different spin. With the participation of DJ Ricky Bonds, NJIT’s Jazz Band ‘Elementals,’ Highland Dancers and bagpipers and even a special edition of Family Feud NJIT-style, the university’s incoming class received an upbeat welcome. The Class of 2028 is already making a historical impact at NJIT. Projected enrollment for the fall semester stands at more than 12,800, including the largest-ever undergraduate cohort at over 9,800 students. The incoming class is also among the most diverse in history, with 46% identifying as an...

NJIT and Illinois Research on Data Analytics Will Measure Impact of Scientific Literature

Monday, August 26, 2024
Three distinct problems in data science — trend identification in graphs, the quantitative study of scientific literature and evaluation of single-cell genomics — will all be addressed by new research in large-scale network analytics, jointly led by Distinguished Professor David Bader at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The problems have a common challenge of finding patterns, known as community detection, from inside incredibly large datasets. Work is funded by a $648,000 National Science Foundation grant, Cyber-Infrastructure for Community Detection, Extraction, and Search in Large...

Trang Dang Wins Murray Center's Anne Wiley Scholarship

Friday, August 23, 2024
Trang Dang, a senior computer science major in the Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the 2024 Anne Wiley Scholarship by NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology. The award is given through nomination by deans or department chairs for exemplary service in support of advancing the representation of women in STEM fields. Throughout her time at NJIT, Dang sought to use the opportunities afforded to her to find her fit and pursue a personal and professional career trajectory that would match an aptitude for excellence with a passion for making a difference. She recognized...

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