Ying Wu College of Computing

CyberCorps Graduate Student Offers Insight to Security of Video Chat Apps

Tuesday, September 8, 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu College of Computing’s CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program.  CyberCorps, part of NJIT’s Secure Computing Initiative, is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Students pursue an M.S. in cybersecurity and privacy, supported with full tuition and a stipend. In return, students are...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate it all because, at the end of the day, the goal is to just stay healthy,” said Emmanuel Odekunle, a biology major and student in the Albert Dorman Honors College. The challenge, he added, is to stay focused amid the necessary changes. Or as he put it, to “make sure that I don’t relent, that...

Computing Student Wins Fulbright Award for Security Research

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year as a Fulbright Research Award Scholar. The Ying Wu College of Computing alumnus and future graduate student will travel to Darmstadt, just south of Frankfurt, to spend several months at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Working with a team led by prominent Internet security expert Prof....

WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024

Monday, August 31, 2020
Virtual University Convocation Program  WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 3 p.m WHERE: The Convocation ceremony will take place virtually and will be streamed starting at 3 p.m. It can be viewed here once it begins.  WHO: NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek will preside over...

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

Thursday, August 27, 2020
As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques deployed at NJIT is converged learning, where only a fraction of the students enrolled in a course are physically present in a classroom while the remainder participate online. While seemingly a simple idea, coordinating this process for thousands of students across hundreds of course sections,...

Design It, Build It, Ship It: Solutions For Global Health Care Needs

Tuesday, August 25, 2020
The M2CU, a mobile medical care unit designed from a shipping container, is standalone, fast to build and easy to deploy throughout the existing global shipping container infrastructure.  The collaboration between NJIT, The Tuchman Foundation, and University Hospital in Newark produced what may be the next piece of a solution to meeting global health care needs. The partnership represents a multidimensional approach to solving a complex issue requiring several types of expertise, as well the ability to problem solve together.  The “problem” is that with few exceptions, health...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college. Additionally, NJIT appears as a Top 50 College for Undergraduate Game Design and Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Studies. The Princeton Review chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from administrators at hundreds of...

Graduate from NJIT@JerseyCity First Cohort Shares His Experience

Thursday, August 13, 2020
Voluminous amounts of data can be overwhelming to even the most experienced professional. That was the experience of Roberto Rivera, a senior research analyst with NJ TRANSIT. Spending his days immersed in large data sets, Roberto realized that continuing his education would provide him with additional skills and training to help him manage the increasingly data-intensive nature of his work. In May 2020, Roberto graduated with a certificate in data mining; one of the first six graduates from NJIT@JerseyCity. Launched in the fall of 2019 and focused on the needs of professionals interested...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Advanced Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory, in NJIT’s Center for Wireless Information Processing. But sound has long been used to send data — the noise a fax machine makes when it’s connecting is evidence of one easy-to-understand example...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure – and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods. The paper was published online by the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. DNA methylation is involved in many key cellular processes and is an important component in gene...

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