Ying Wu College of Computing

COVID-19 Vaccines Breathe Life into Research Done 20 Years Ago

Thursday, December 17, 2020
Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Barry Cohen,  who was an associate dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, worked on the algorithm for bioengineering stable messenger RNA (mRNA), a key ingredient of the vaccine recently approved for emergency use by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration. For his doctoral thesis at SUNY Stony Brook in the early 2000s, Cohen wanted to use computers to study evolution. He believed an opportunity could be found in mRNA, single-...

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

Monday, December 7, 2020
This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses with the goal of making computer science education more equitable, inclusive and effective.  The course will be taught by three students — Reynaldo Barte, a computer science major from Jersey City; Samuel Carlos, a computer science and...

NJIT Team Wins Award at International Entrepreneurship Competition

Monday, November 30, 2020
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Israel, UAE, Israel, the U.S. and Canada.  The NJIT team, Volant, founded by three College of Computing students, Daniel Salib, Jay Rana and Irving Guzman, had previously won the TiE New Jersey chapter’s pitch competition. Volant’s local chapter success made the team eligible to compete on an...

NJIT Software May Help Scientists Communicate About COVID

Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Every complex scientific field needs an ontology, and soon the primary one that covers COVID-19 will be easier for medication and vaccination researchers to understand, using new interpretive methods and software developed by experts at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Ontologies are essentially dictionaries and maps of medical terms. Terms with the same meaning, such as cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction, are grouped together. Each group is called a concept. Concepts in turn are connected to each other using arrows and boxes to indicate which are general and which are specific....

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays. The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends to mean fewer hardware hacks, as those require in-person work, and instead focused more on software in the form of mobile and web applications. There were 22 projects submitted by 42 individual hackers along with overall attendance of more than 200 people, despite 15 other hackathons happening...

NJIT Plans New B.S. in Data Science Degree Program in Fall 2021

Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Responding to the surge in demand for technical skills in data science, NJIT plans to launch in fall 2021 a new Bachelor of Science in Data Science undergraduate degree, co-managed by the Ying Wu College of Computing Department of Computer Science and College of Science and Liberal Arts Department of Mathematical Sciences.  The program’s two tracks — computing and statistics -- will prepare students for careers in the burgeoning field of data science, which is the theory and practice of extracting information and structure from data, and then using it for adding value to the solution...

2020 Research Report Highlights Innovative Computing Research from YWCC Faculty

Friday, October 30, 2020
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT has published its 2020 Research Report, showcasing the diverse research activities conducted by Ying Wu faculty over the past year. Research topics span a wide spectrum of interests, from human-computer interaction to cybersecurity, data science and virtual reality. Researchers have developed deep mathematical theories, as well as very practical applications that address daily challenges such as traffic congestion, securing personal health information, and improving the speed and efficiency of cloud-based computing.  “The 2020...

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

Friday, October 30, 2020
TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to wide swaths of cutting-edge technology research, advise their clients and employers about what directions to follow for commercialization and investment opportunities. The visit of 58 thought leaders from academia, corporations and government agencies — including Internet pioneer Leonard...

NJIT Honors Exceptional Donors at Launch of the Colton Society

Thursday, October 29, 2020
NJIT’s inaugural inductees into its new Colton Society represent an array of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, finance, education and technology. Each, however, shares something remarkable in common: lifetime contributions to the university that exceed half a million dollars. In tribute to such exceptional generosity, NJIT honored the 63 benefactors during an online event that featured the unveiling of a plaque bearing their names in Eberhardt Hall. President Joel S. Bloom personally thanked each by name, noting how their contributions fuel the development of those who...

Researching the Effects of Online Misinformation and Realities of the Coronavirus

Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Assistant Professor Cody Buntain, NJIT's expert on the science of understanding social media, is turning his trained eyes to the connections between online misinformation and public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using software that he co-developed in 2017 with University of Waterloo Professor Jimmy Lin, which identifies high-impact moments on Twitter, Buntain will compare relevant tweets about the coronavirus to actions among the people of countries including Brazil, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. His research is supported by a six-month, $138,000 grant from...

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