Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT's Murray Center for Women in Technology Holds 5th Annual Women Designing the Future Conference

Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold its fifth annual Women Designing the Future conference — “Game Changers! Technological Innovations That Will Transform Our Lives”— Friday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B. Conference participants will have the opportunity to interact with women scientists, government leaders and entrepreneurs as they discuss technological innovations that will both disrupt and improve our lives over the next 10 years. Experts will address a wide range of...

RiskVal Financial Solutions Partners with NJIT Data Scientists to Model the Bond Market

Friday, March 8, 2019
Researchers at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) have partnered with RiskVal Financial Solutions, a New York City-based global supplier of Software as a Service for pre-trade analysis and risk management. The objective is to use cutting-edge data science techniques to model fluctuations in the bond market. The project is led by NJIT Professor Zhi Wei of the Department of Computer Science at Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), whose research focuses on data analytics, statistical modeling, machine learning and data mining. Assisting was Xiurui Hou, a doctoral student of Wei’s...

Career Fair Draws Hundreds of Employers and Thousands of Jobseekers

Friday, March 1, 2019
It was a cold and windy Wednesday, but the winter weather didn’t stop the more than 2,200 students and alumni in search of internships, co-ops and full-time jobs from packing the Wellness and Events Center Feb. 13. There, 212 employers were recruiting for a range of positions — and doling out swag — at the Spring 2019 Career Fair, coordinated by NJIT’s Career Development Services. We spoke with some of the employers, many of them first-timers at NJIT, about the value career fairs hold for their talent pipelines, and how they prepared for the big event. (Above) Mark Parette ’83,...

NJIT Overwatch Esports Team Secures Spot in Collegiate National Championship Tournament

Friday, February 22, 2019
College Basketball isn’t the only tournament happening this March. Gamers will have their own March Madness as part of TESPA’s Overwatch Collegiate Championship — and NJIT has made the field. Finishing 11th in TESPA’s regular season rankings with a record of 13-2, the Highlanders have punched their ticket to the tournament. More than 400 colleges and universities take part in TESPA’s Overwatch league, where students test their skills and earn scholarship money. NJIT team captain Nicholas Abadiotakis, a junior computer engineering major, said the Highlanders have ranked as high as #1 in...

NJIT Teams Nab 1st and 2nd Place in Statewide Competition

Monday, February 18, 2019
The purpose is twofold: “tap into the creative and forward-thinking minds of young people, and at the same time, encourage students to take a more active role in understanding and shaping health care.” Indeed, the second annual Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) Health Care Transformation Challenge yielded new apps and devices designed by college students with their peers top of mind. The teams placing first and second in the statewide competition — which this year awarded $10,000 in cash prizes and addressed mental/behavioral health, disease management and...

NJIT hosts Middle School Cyber Robotics Competition

Friday, February 15, 2019
Almost 100 middle school students from more than 40 schools across New Jersey recently participated in a cyber robotics coding competition held at NJIT. They were finalists in the New Jersey Cyber Robotics Coding Competition, an exciting online event in which students used a cloud-based simulation platform featuring a virtual, 3D animated robot. The competition is the brainchild of the Intelitek STEM and CTE Education Foundation, which partnered with the Department of Education of New Jersey to hold this event. Similar competitions are held in many other states across the country...

NJIT Hosts Game Development Marathon for Global Game Jam

Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Nearly 100 budding game designers pulled all-nighters at NJIT for the Eleventh Annual Global Game Jam (GGJ) in what has become a much anticipated event for both design and information technology students. Organized in 2008, GGJ, an international nonprofit corporation based in California, is the world’s largest game-development event. This year, 47,000 participants from 113 countries gathered at 860 sites worldwide to create 9,000 games. The free annual marathon offers anyone over the age of 18 the chance to design video games in a 48-hour window. There were six sites in New Jersey...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Match Candidates to Jobs

Friday, January 25, 2019
Milad Mirghahari came up with his idea the way many entrepreneurs do, by trying to solve a real-world problem he faced daily. The difference in Mirghahari’s case is he was only 15 years old. Mirghahari’s family operated two Subway franchises and in his words — they were failing. The main problem — they could not find good talent. They lacked ambitious, committed employees who wanted to succeed. After peppering his mom with questions long enough, she told him, “you think you can fix it — do it." He did. He scoured through resumes, reached out to other Subway franchisees, gave...

The Department of Informatics Welcomes Three New Faculty Members

Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Three professors joined the Department of Informatics at the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) this Fall. Check out the Q&A below to learn a little more about Aritra Dasgupta, Margarita Vinnikov and Xinyue Ye, who hail from institutions across the country. Assistant Professor Aritra Dasgupta Your background:  I was born and grew up in Kolkata, the cultural capital of India. After receiving my undergraduate degree in Information Technology there, I received my M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC).   UNCC was a...

NJIT Unveils New Jersey's First Cyberpsychology Program

Thursday, January 10, 2019
This year, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced it will offer students a unique baccalaureate degree option in the emerging field of cyberpsychology. The new program — exploring the dynamics between modern technology and human psychology — is the first of its kind in New Jersey, and is the first academic program in the behavioral sciences to be offered at NJIT. The 120-credit degree option, now available for enrollment through the college’s Science, Technology and Society B.S. degree program, involves a combination of traditional coursework in psychology, and study...

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