Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT Intern for Cisco Systems Left Her Mark in Silicon Valley, Virtually

Friday, October 23, 2020
Aarati Srikumar, a junior computer science major from Edison and honors student at NJIT, made the best of her summer internship with networking giant Cisco Systems despite the pandemic changing her plans to experience Silicon Valley in person. Cisco adjusted their program to be fully remote, giving Aarati and her fellow interns a unique and rewarding learning opportunity to work on the company's software updating processes. Working on a team in Cisco’s developer operations group, Aarati and her peers were tasked with automating the process of creating software maintenance upgrades, or...

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

Tuesday, October 20, 2020
GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which was hosted Oct. 10-11 by NJIT's Women in Computing Society, had almost 80 entrants spanning 28 projects from colleges and even high schools across the U.S. and beyond. "I think we had a lot of engagement considering the fact that this was in a pandemic. People worked an entire weekend building their projects. It was very inspiring to me. … No one would have thought this event would have been possible completely virtually when the...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Martin Tuchman School of Management, Newark College of Engineering and Ying Wu College of Computing each year who desire the rigor of an honors education within their academic discipline. Dean's Scholars pursue a minimum of three honors-only courses within their degree-...

Honors Students Learn to Merge Information Tech and Social Consciousness

Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success. The course, IS-485, catered to students from Albert Dorman Honors College and emphasized real-world projects that apply digital solutions to problems faced by local communities and non-profit organizations. It's an area of emphasis for Lee, who is the Dr. Joel & Dr. Diane Bloom Honors Faculty Fellow...

Institute for Data Science Unveils 2020-2021 Talks, Many to Discuss COVID-19

Monday, October 12, 2020
About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey . David Bader, director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science, said he is excited to host such prestigious guest speakers representing academia, government and industry. While the Institute hosted several guest speakers in the past year, such as the chief data scientist from The New York Times last spring, the broad scope of this year’s series covers more real-life...

College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty in AI, Databases, Networking

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students. “I am delighted to welcome our newest faculty members to Ying Wu College of Computing,” said Dean Craig Gotsman. “Even with the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, our enrollment for the current academic year is up and we are blessed with an enthusiastic and diverse student body. We are...

Electrical Laws Can Help Break Network Graph Comparison Bottleneck

Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Yiannis Koutis wants to know if a method inspired by electrical laws could lead to a faster and more insightful way of comparing seemingly disparate networks. Koutis, an associate professor of computer science in NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, will study this question for his $150,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation program known as EAGER — EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research — which supports research that is unproven yet potentially transformative. "Suppose one wants to understand the similarities between two, very large unknown networks from an...

Wohn Awarded for Mentoring Women and Minorities in Computing

Tuesday, September 22, 2020
In a lab dedicated to developing novel technologies for positive social interaction and trying to understand how people use social technologies, such as social media, mobile phones, and multiplayer games, it is the face-to-face, in-person relationships that students have with each other, faculty, and researchers that attracts them and brings them back year after year. Ask Dr. Yvette Wohn what she thinks about that, and she will tell you that she would have it no other way. Wohn launched the Social Interaction Lab, also known as the Social X Lab, seven years ago when she saw an...

ACM Chapter Plans Virtual HackNJIT Event, New Special-Interest Groups

Friday, September 18, 2020
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery dates back to the 1970s but they've had no semester quite like fall 2020 with all events being virtual. Their annual HackNJIT event (November 7-8), along with the NJIT Women in Computing Society's GirlHacks (October 10-11), are both exclusively online this fall. For the HackNJIT event, "We're still working out the final exact details," explained ACM Chapter President Evan Markowitz, a fourth-year student from Hackettstown majoring in computer science. "Our plan is to have a 24-hour Twitch livestream. We're...

NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More than 115 companies, government agencies and nonprofits are participating in the fair, which will take place Sept. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Among the participants are Facebook, Colgate-Palmolive, Merck, CenturyLink, the FBI, General Dynamics, Turner Construction, the New York State...

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