Ying Wu College of Computing

Anuja Badeti started interning at Bloomberg in high school, kept working there during summer breaks from college and will accept a full-time role upon her graduation from the joint B.S./M.S. program in computer science this spring.  It's a strikingly logical career path, considering her childhood dream of being a farmer — "I really liked the idea of being able to grow food and eat it," she said — and then her move into campus politics, where she served as president of the NJIT Student Senate after not being involved until her junior year. Badeti was born in California, moved to New...

Information technology student Sam Itman has long believed that knowledge and passion for technology can open doors as “it presents a world of opportunities to those who are willing to discover them.” For Itman, these opportunities have led to an impactful internship at Optum and a cybersecurity position with the federal government. Itman is a dean’s list student in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing and member of the National Science Foundation’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, part of the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative. The competitive scholarship program provides him the...

Business publication ROI-NJ included several NJIT executives and faculty among its annual list of New Jersey's top technology influencers. "Innovating: If your company isn’t doing it, it probably will not be around for very long," the publication stated. "Our goal was to select those who are having the most impact in the technology and innovation sectors. … We’re overwhelmed with the quality of honorees on the list — and humbled to know that there are many others out there deserving of the recognition." The editors selected President Joel S. Bloom as the fourth-most influential...

Assistant Professor Hua Wei is studying how to build more realistic models for traffic simulation, with the goal of improving predictions by closing the gap between just following traffic laws vs. how people actually drive. That gap can be significant, so Wei is using the latest in artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning to help his cause, supported by  a $175,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation. Wei explained that reinforcement learning has seen success in artificial intelligence domains such as virtual gaming where simulations are constructed...