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Kamalika Sandell has been appointed as NJIT’s vice provost and chief information officer, effective July 27, Provost Fadi Deek announced in an email to the campus community.

Sandell, previously deputy CIO at American University, replaces interim CIO Gregg Chottiner.

Community and urban planners throughout North Jersey will soon have a thorough digital inventory of their sidewalks, based on a unique use of geospatial intelligence software led by Ying Wu College of Computing Associate Professor Xinyue Ye and his Ph.D. student Huan Ning, on behalf of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA).

Planners can use such databases to help guide their decisions about where and how to invest in construction and infrastructure projects.

David Michaelson is the latest Ying Wu College of Computing graduate to enter Google's software engineering residency program.

Michaelson finished his computer science degree in May with plenty of experience. Besides studying, he worked 20 hours per week for several semesters starting in 2018 as an applications development intern at Broadridge Financial Solutions, riding his electric scooter back and forth between NJIT and downtown Newark.

Through the university’s partnership with Strive for College, an online college mentoring platform, NJIT students are invited to participate in a free pilot program over the next year aimed at helping them complete their courses, earn a degree and prepare for living-wage careers after college.

A recent graduate in computer science played a small but important role in fixing the city of Newark's problem of lead in its public water supply.

The student, Sammy Faraj, did his part by developing a database and mobile application for Newark-based Roman E&G Corp., which needed to organize photographs of where its workers were replacing outdated lead pipes with modern copper ones for the city government’s remediation project.

Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps program.

Class of 2020 graduates have until this Tuesday, May 5, to order their Commencement regalia and have it shipped to them. Wearing Commencement regalia is necessary to participate in NJIT’s virtual Commencement ceremony, to be held Friday, June 12.

Students are urged to visit the Commencement website for details on ordering Commencement regalia. The website provides additional important information, including the deadlines for students to submit the correct pronunciation of their name, as well as photos and videos.

Informatics department Assistant Professor Hai Phan is studying how to protect privacy in mobile applications that track a user's behavior.

Phan received a $100,000 grant from a major technology company for the project, Detecting Human Behaviors from Smartphones Using Federated Machine Learning in the Wild.

NJIT's Senjuti Basu Roy, assistant professor of computer science, received a prestigious National Science Foundation award announced this month for her research addressing inefficiencies of deploying tasks in crowdsourced labor services. 

A team of teachers in Morris and Essex counties, looking to do their part to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has produced almost 500 face masks, 700 face shields and 1,400 ear guards, led by NJIT alumna Jessica Liatys of the class of 2010.

Liatys teaches technology education at Chatham Middle School. She honed her STEM chops with a bachelor's degree in information technology, following that up with a master's in network security in 2016.