Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT Educates Next Generation of Tech Entrepreneurs

Thursday, May 17, 2018
Found your own company and be your own boss upon graduation? Unthinkable? Not any more.  In this day and age, founding a startup is a viable alternative to working as an employee in an existing company. Especially in the burgeoning tech sector. Especially in the exciting New York region. All you need is a sound business idea, some good technology to support it, a talented team and a small pot of money to get you to that first prototype. Is it really that easy? Not quite. What does it take?  Focus. Drive. Ambition. Passion. Creativity. These are the character traits of a...

Graduates Encouraged to Sustain Hard Work, Passion and Kindness at NJIT's 102nd Commencement

Tuesday, May 15, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) conferred 2,885 bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the 102nd commencement ceremony May 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark. Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Engineering Education, and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering at Purdue University, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Science and delivered the commencement address in which she shared her perspective as a first-generation college student from Trenton, N.J. who attended graduate school at Princeton...

Cid Khode Will Put His Computer Science Degree to Use as a Developer for UBS

Tuesday, May 15, 2018
When Chidanand “Cid” Khode ’18 walked across the stage at graduation, he was able to check off a few things on his to-do list: make new friends, graduate with a degree in computer science and find a good job.  But his biggest accomplishment, he says, was honoring a personal commitment to leave a contribution to the next generation of Highlanders. “I’ve always wanted to give back to my college, to give back to people in general,”says Khode, who lives in Matawan and moved to the United States from India at 5 years old. His voluntary nature dates back to an AP computer science class...

Past, Present, Future: Reflections From the NJIT Class of 2018

Monday, May 14, 2018
Meet the 2018 Gonfalon Carriers   Julia Garcia Gonfalon: Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) Major: Finance Hometown: Madrid, Spain Next up: Moving to Salt Lake City, Utah to work as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Garcia, a former member of Spain’s national fencing team, chose NJIT in part for its Division 1 program, but quickly found her stride in NJIT’s emerging investment community. “I’ve always been obsessed with stocks. I was reading the financial pages by 10 or 11, which my parents thought was so odd! When I got here, I was ready to take...

NJIT Commencement Exercises May 15, May 17 and May 18, 2018

Wednesday, May 9, 2018
MEDIA ADVISORY: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to Confer More than 3,100 Degrees at 102nd Commencement Exercises May 15, May 17 and May 18, 2018 Engineering Educator Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Science                                                     ...

Computer Science Professor Wins Adobe Digital Experience Award

Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Zhi Wei, associate professor of computer science at Ying Wu College of Computing, developed a research proposal that earned him a $50,000 Adobe Digital Experience Research Award.  A prestigious and competitive prize in the field of data science, the Adobe Digital Experience Research Award is given to faculty members from top schools, like Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and the University of Michigan.  Wei’s proposal, “KPI-Driven Content Understanding and Generation With Applications to Digital Marketing,” presents a strategy to...

Ying Wu College of Computing Capstone Showcase May 2

Friday, April 27, 2018
  The Spring 2018 Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Capstone and Real World Connections (RWC) Showcase will take place Wednesday, May 2, in the Campus Center Ballroom 2-5 p.m. The biannual showcase will feature the work of 27 YWCC capstone industry teams and 16 entrepreneurship teams made up of NJIT students, demonstrating their accomplishments working on projects for leading industry organizations like UPS, ManufactureNJ and the New Jersey judiciary system. For the first time, the showcase will also double as an emerging tech conference ledby the New Jersey Chapter...

NJIT's Top Student Researchers Take Center Stage at Dana Knox Student Research Showcase

Friday, April 20, 2018
This month, the work of NJIT’s top student researchers was put on display at the 2018 Knox Student Research Showcase, “A Glimpse Into the Future”.  The showcase, which annually honors outstanding research done at NJIT by its graduate and undergraduate students, awarded Najmaddin Akhundov first place among this year’s graduate researchers for developing a computational model to track and control invasive species that threaten the environment. Akhundov, a mechanical and industrial engineering Ph.D. student, gave a presentation that demonstrated his model’s ability to successfully...

NJIT Launches Program to Expand Access to M.S. Degrees in Computing

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
NJIT, one of the nation’s leading public technological universities, will offer a new program this fall that puts students on the fast track to earn a master’s degree in one of six graduate programs offered by the Department of Computer Science at Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC). Designed for working professionals and college graduates who hold a bachelor’s degree in the mathematical sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences or engineering, the “Fast Track to Computing” program offers access to the following graduate computing degree programs: Master of Science in...

NJIT Gives Back With Nearly 60,000 Hours of Community Service

Monday, April 16, 2018
Volunteerism is a mainstay at NJIT, with students and faculty engaged in a range of initiatives to better the community. Such efforts, amounting to more than 59,000 hours of community service over the past year alone, have been recognized both nationally and locally.   The university has made the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, “one of the highest recognitions a university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement,” six times. And just recently, NJIT received another nod with a Commerce and Industry Association of...

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