Ying Wu College of Computing

YWCC Students Score in Top 20 at ICPC Regional Competition

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
When a representative from the highly-competitive International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) personally congratulates you on your win, it’s an indication of growth and greater things to come. It signifies that student talent and tenacity thrive when mentored by great leaders. Such is the case with the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club, led by senior computer science major and president Jaden Nguyen and their coach, Assistant Professor Martin Kellogg, who scored in the top 20 for two of their four teams among 83 competitors from some of the most...

4 YWCC Faculty Contribute to Report to the Governor as Part of AI Task Force

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Distinguished Professors David Bader and Guiling “Grace” Wang and Professors Cristian Borcea and Vincent Oria in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) served as part of Governor Phil Murphy’s AI Task Force for the state of New Jersey, a team comprised of industry leaders, academic experts, consumer advocates, and government innovators tasked with establishing programs, trainings and tools that advance the state’s leadership in AI. Recommendations by the Task Force were recently published in The Report to the Governor on Artificial Intelligence, which aims to create economic opportunities...

NJIT STEM Forum Explores AI, Digital Transformation in Schools

Wednesday, November 27, 2024
With artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT rapidly gaining traction among students and teachers alike, it’s no surprise the topic took center focus at NJIT’s 8th Annual STEM Forum for School Leaders, “Leading the Digital Transformation in Our Schools.” The event, hosted by NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, attracted educators from across N.J. to hear from an expert panel of NJIT researchers, education law specialists and district leaders on an array of topics — from ethical concerns of AI in schools, to strategies for implementing such technologies as positive learning tools...

NJIT Computing Researchers Fix Critical Mistakes in Medical Mobile Apps

Friday, November 22, 2024
Potentially deadly mathematical errors are prevalent among mobile applications used in clinical and emergency room settings, but a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Ying Wu College of Computing has found provable solutions that may save lives. The applications, known as medical score calculators, can be downloaded by anyone and are popular among less experienced health care staff. But the apps are rife with errors, sometimes because of flawed source data from medical reference tables and other times due to bad implementations from developers who don’t understand...

Two Research Papers on Mitigating Potential Security Flaws in LLMs Presented at ACM CCS 2024

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Ph.D. candidates Nhi N Nguyen, Mahmoud Nazzal and Khiem Ton recently presented two papers at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024) that could aid future breakthroughs in improving the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) when generating code. The research has the potential to be a game changer in the use of generative AI for many sectors of industry and academia, especially software development. ACM CCS is a competitive, top-tier venue in the field of security and privacy with a 16.9% acceptance rate for papers. The conference brings together...

NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a microcontroller to gauge its wearer’s posture and report their status to a mobile phone application. It learns about each individual wearer, building a custom dataset. Its developers were NJIT students Matthew Tujague and Ricardo Vergara, Victor Jiminez from NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and...

YWCC Student Angel Cazares Awarded Prestigious 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship

Monday, November 4, 2024
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship. This recognition celebrates Cazares' academic dedication and leadership in technology and innovation, marking a significant milestone in his journey and reinforcing NJIT’s growing reputation for developing young leaders and problem-solvers. Cazares recently represented NJIT at the renowned HSI Battle of the Brains competition, a 16-hour event where teams from Hispanic-Serving...

Women of Ying Wu College of Computing Study Bias in AI at Annual Grace Hopper Conference

Friday, November 1, 2024
Members of NJIT’s undergraduate and graduate Women in Computing Society groups attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia took full advantage of opportunities for professional development, networking and industry insights that support their growth in technology fields.  The GHC, hosted by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists, with a mission to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. From engaging with industry experts on emerging AI trends...

NJIT Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
An NJIT computational research team made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Teams were tasked to solve a highly complex problem: analyzing the intricate network of neurons in the brain of a Drosophila melanogaster — commonly known as the fruit fly. Teams had to treat this neural network as a massive, interconnected graph and work to determine the best possible ordering of neurons. The goal was to maximize the efficiency of the brain's neural pathways, creating an optimal flow of information within this tiny but surprisingly complex system. NJIT’s team was led...

7 NJIT Students Awarded Through NSF's CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service

Thursday, October 24, 2024
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected seven high-caliber students to join the fall 2024 cohort of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program (SFS). The competitive scholarship is awarded following a rigorous application and interview process where faculty evaluate candidates based upon a unique combination of their academic standing, strong social skills, self-motivation, excellence in teamwork, passion and commitment to embracing and comprehending the initiative, and dedication to serving the country....

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