Ying Wu College of Computing

Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive Hackathons

Friday, March 28, 2025
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally. Sponsored by tech giants like NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, TreeHacks received more than 12,000 applications, and selected only 1,000 participants.  “It was incredible to represent NJIT on such a big stage. Working alongside brilliant minds from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the University of Waterloo was truly inspiring,” Patel said. “The tech culture on the West Coast, especially its...

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wei, who joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing in 2008 and now holds the role of distinguished professor, also became an IEEE Fellow in 2024. “Being elected as an AAAS Fellow is a deeply meaningful recognition for me. While the IEEE Fellowship primarily acknowledges technical and engineering contributions, the AAAS Fellowship reflects broader impact in advancing science and its applications to benefit society,” Wei said. Wei’s major career...

YWCC Makes an Impact at AAAI Conference 2025

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) was a notable presence at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence during the month of March. Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research and External Relations Guiling “Grace” Wang served as Sponsorship Chair for this year’s event, in addition to co-coordinating YWCC’s sponsorship of the AAAI Student Hackathon with Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Brook Wu and serving as one of 10 Women Mentors for the women mentoring lunch program. She, furthermore, along with her Ph.D. candidate and lead author...

NJIT Highlander Model Rocket is a Transformer, Becomes Drone, Lands Itself

Monday, March 24, 2025
The NJIT Rocketry Club is experimenting with a model that autonomously lands itself standing up, a la SpaceX, but accomplished through novel methods. SpaceX rockets fire their liquid fuel thrusters while descending. Other hobbyists have already tried to duplicate that method, so the Highlanders devised a unique approach: next year, they want to make the nose cone of their Project Lotus rocket unfold like flower petals, revealing a drone that takes control. It’s a new path in model rocketry, where nose cones typically pop open to expose a simple parachute. Hobbyists have done it this way...

NJIT Unveils VR Crime Scene Tech, Research at Nation's Largest Forensic Conference

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
NJIT’s forensics program made an impression at the 77th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Conference in Baltimore’s Convention Center, unveiling new research and innovations that tackled this year’s conference theme, “Technology: A Tool for Transformation or Tyranny?” NJIT faculty and students presented on advances shaping the world of forensics, from research that could improve how forensic scientists estimate a person’s age at death, to technology demos of CSIxR — a virtual reality (VR) application developed at NJIT that simulates crime scenes scenarios to train crime scene...

NJIT's Bader, Who Helped Invent Modern Supercomputing, Gets HoF Honor

Monday, March 17, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology distinguished professor David Bader was inducted recently into the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art Hall of Fame, located near Atlanta. The museum committee cited Bader, who also serves as director of NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, for “revolutioniz[ing] the computing industry through groundbreaking innovations that democratized high-performance computing.” His late-1990s supercomputer design combined off-the-shelf CPUs, high-performance networking, and the open-source Linux operating system. Until that time, supercomputers ran on proprietary...

SIGCHI Design Jam Showcases the Fruits of Mixing Computing with Creativity

Friday, March 14, 2025
The annual SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) Design Jam happened during an inspired nine-hour designathon beginning on Saturday, March 8 at 9 a.m. and finishing at 1 p.m. the following day. The event invites students studying human-computer interaction, digital design, web and information systems and cyberpsychology to form teams of four to create an interactive prototype (Figma, front-end code, paper prototype, etc.) that will solve a real user problem. The beginner-friendly UX hackathon-style happening is a collaboration between Ying Wu College of Computing (...

Gender's Role in Climate Change, AI Highlighted at NJIT Women's Tech Conference

Thursday, March 13, 2025
A keynote speaker at NJIT’s Women Designing the Future conference explained the imperative for holistic approaches to climate change policy, while another shared her tale of breaking through glass ceilings to develop innovative artificial intelligence software. The speakers — Rhiana Gunn-Wright, who orchestrated behind-the-scenes policymaking for the 2019 Green New Deal, and Danielle Feinberg, visual effects supervisor at Pixar — were on campus March 7 to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the NJIT Murray Center for Women in Technology, and also for Women’s History Month. “We had...

Zhihao 'Zephyr' Yao Recognized Among IEEE Top 30 Early Career Professionals

Monday, March 10, 2025
Assistant Professor Zhihao "Zephyr" Yao of the Department of Computer Science at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has been named among IEEE Computing’s Top Early Career Professionals. This prestigious recognition is awarded to individuals worldwide who have demonstrated exceptional early-career achievements and are actively shaping the future of technology in the fields of artificial intelligence, software engineering and hardware. Professor Yao's research on enhancing trust and security within mobile systems has been recognized as a significant contribution to the development...

Fruit Fly Research Led NJIT Scientists and Edison Teens to Better AI Habits on Supercomputers

Monday, March 3, 2025
A competition to compare the brains of male vs. female fruit flies led New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers and two high school students to a second-place finish in the latest edition of the FlyWire Data Challenge, but more importantly the team learned new lessons about using artificial intelligence for setting up research with supercomputers. In the challenge, hosted earlier this year by Princeton University’s Neuroscience Institute, teams had to create efficient maps of the 19,000 synapse connections between neurons in tiny insect brains. The maps take the form of graphs, and...

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