Ying Wu College of Computing

Put Away Your Smartphone to Understand Tech's Impact on Elections

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone." Buntain joined NJIT this year to teach computer ethics and to research how computing systems can be built more resilient against misinformation campaigns. The question everyone asks him, whether it's ordinary citizens or a U.S. Senate subcommittee on intelligence, is whether the 2020 election season will suffer the same debacles of outside influence as the 2016...

Getting the Job: NJIT Students Share Their Career Fair Know-how

Monday, September 16, 2019
According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle with prospective employers and leave a lasting impression on recruiters. But vital to the mix in landing a position is preparedness. With the Fall 2019 Career Fair just around the corner — Wednesday, Oct. 2, at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center — these Highlanders, who scored internships...

NJIT Experts Lead $1.5M NSF Grant to Study Social Media Moderation

Friday, September 13, 2019
NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation. Anyone who interacts in online communities knows the pain, whether you commented on an article, calmed down friends arguing with each other on your Facebook wall, made a tough Yelp review or got censored by a forum manager. "Never read the comments" is a mantra of news writers in the 21st century, although we all secretly do. Content moderation goes back to the dawn of the printing press, explained Yvette Wohn, director of the Social...

NJIT@JerseyCity Launches with Data Science Graduate Programs

Thursday, September 12, 2019
NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019. With the start of the fall semester, dozens of students embarked on graduate-level academic programs in data science at NJIT’s new location, just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the Waterfront district of Jersey City. NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) offers a Master’s Degree in Data Science as well as graduate certificates in Big Data and Data Mining at NJIT  @JerseyCity, with plans to add a graduate certificate in Data Visualization in spring 2020, all of which are part time programs. Non-credit...

Already Distinguished, Twin Sisters Are Ready for Further Success at NJIT

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Samara and Samantha Augustin — freshmen at Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering, respectively — are among the first recipients of the full scholarship, a partnership of NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education to create a pipeline between Newark Public Schools and NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College. Graduates of Science Park High School, the Augustins were involved there in a variety of extracurricular...

Inspiring Students From NJIT to Africa

Friday, August 30, 2019
Finding Keith Williams in a classroom isn’t unusual. He’s taught at NJIT for years, but this summer he taught somewhere quite different. Williams traveled more than 7,400 miles to teach at ZCAS University in Zambia, invited by the Zambian government to teach a course on mobile technology and set up a degree program to help students develop software solutions. At ZCAS, Williams taught a software development workshop called Progressive Web Apps, designed to teach students to create mobile apps. Participants in the workshop included university staff and students. The course itself was...

NJIT Ranks in Top 2% Nationwide in College Salary Report by Payscale

Friday, August 30, 2019
Payscale has released its 2019 College Salary Report and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has placed #53 out of over 4,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. in the mid-career salary rankings. In addition, NJIT is #1 for state schools in mid-career salary. “NJIT students are in high demand and our alumni enjoy remarkable success, because we specialize in preparing graduates to thrive in what is unquestionable a tech economy,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom. “Every major global industry, at its core, is driven by technological advancement. That’s why our students average...

NJIT Professor Awarded Prestigious DARPA Fellowship

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The $500,000 grant that comes with the Fellowship will be used to continue to advance deployability, usability and performance of open-source libraries, such as the open-source PALISADE homomorphic encryption library developed by Rohloff and his collaborators in academia and the U.S. defense industry. This enables organizations to protect their data so that computations may be...

The Makerspace at NJIT Wins $125,000 in a U.S. Small Business Administration Competition

Friday, August 23, 2019
The Makerspace at NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s training-focused, rapid prototyping facility, has won a $125,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to advance careers in advanced manufacturing. NJIT is one of 12 winners of the SBA’s MaTCH Pilot Competition, a program designed to help workers secure entry-level advanced manufacturing jobs and the option to pursue further training in an apprenticeship program or a college education in advanced manufacturing. The university’s makerspace secured a top-tier award designated for facilities with “successful...

Program started by NJIT Professor Spreading Entrepreneurial Spirit Around the World

Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Three times a year, NJIT’s Osama Eljabiri makes the trip to Medellin, Colombia, as part of his Real World Connections (RWC) program. RWC mirrors a program he started more than a decade ago in New Jersey for middle school and high school students, designed to help them innovate, create and gain real-world experience in computing skills. Eljabiri even received an award from the New Jersey Governor for the program in 2017. Eljabiri, a senior lecturer at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, was inspired to take the RWC program outside the U.S. because he believes education is a great...

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