Ying Wu College of Computing

Panel Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Can Only Guess, Not Reason for Itself

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Expert panelists took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence, at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month. The panel moderator was institute director David Bader, who is also a distinguished professor in NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing and who shared his own thoughts on AI in a separate Q&A recently. The panel members were Kevin Coulter, field CTO for AI, Dell Technologies; Grace Wang, distinguished professor and director of NJIT’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research; and Mengjia Xu, assistant...

NJIT Nationally Recognized for Serving Students Connected to the Military

Monday, October 7, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned national recognition for how it serves students connected to the military, be they active members or veterans. NJIT is featured in G.I. Jobs’ list of 2024-25 Military Friendly Schools, earning a silver distinction. More than 1,800 schools participated in the survey, with only 537 making the list for going above and beyond. G.I. Jobs considers performance from the survey, along with data available from state and federal agencies, and focuses on institutions' ability to meet thresholds in: student retention, graduation, job placement, loan...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-2025

Monday, October 7, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to formally announce the appointments of four new assistant professors who will lead research and education initiatives in the departments of Data Science and Informatics during the 2024-2025 academic year. These new faculty members have collectively contributed pioneering research in areas of machine and contributed learning (distributed and federated learning) and creative, novel applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) as well as gaming. Their innovations have influenced healthcare related to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s...

NJIT PhD Researcher Develops Secure Code Generation System, Achieves Early Conference Acceptance

Friday, September 27, 2024
Research from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) addresses a critical issue in AI-powered code generation: the prevalence of security vulnerabilities. Ph.D. student Khiem Ton and his colleagues have developed SGCode, a system that combines advanced AI techniques with security analysis tools to detect and fix potential security flaws as code is being created. In a remarkable achievement, Ton's paper on SGCode has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '24), only one week into his Ph.D. program. This...

NJIT Celebrates Innovation and Excellence at 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards

Friday, September 27, 2024
A cornerstone of NJIT's annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at NJIT. The 2024 awardees include pioneers in green technology, public health, architecture and entrepreneurship. Collectively, they represent NJIT's dedication to driving progress across industries through innovation, community service and thought leadership. Their contributions are felt locally and globally, as they solve pressing challenges in environmental sustainability, public health, food safety...

Ying Wu College of Computing and Ben-Gurion University Partnership Presents at VLDB in China

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy from the Ying Wu College of Computing and Assistant Professor Nimrod Talmon from Ben-Gurion University presented a tutorial at the 50th International conference on Very Large databases (VLDB 2024), a flagship data management conference, in Guangzhou, China. The title, Fairness in Preference Queries: Social Choice Theories Meet Data Management, aims to adapt different preference aggregation methods from social choice theories, summarize how existing research has handled fairness over these methods, identify their limitations...

NJIT Ranks No. 84, Continues Rise in US News and World Report National Rankings

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list. The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajectory — climbing 19 spots since 2022 — and supports the findings of other publications that rank U.S. universities, which emphasize value and return on investment. This year U.S. News revised its criteria to place greater emphasis on student outcomes, like social mobility, and includes other...

NJIT Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Develop AI-Powered Solar Eruption Forecasting System

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) researchers harness artificial intelligence for unprecedented insights into conditions in the Sun’s lower atmosphere driving some of the solar system’s most powerful explosions, capable of disrupting critical infrastructure on Earth. NJIT researchers have been awarded a $593,864 National Science Foundation grant to develop a new AI system for more quickly and accurately predicting when explosive space weather events on the Sun will strike, from solar flares to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The three-year project, led by Yan Xu at NJIT's...

NJIT Computing Student Part of Winning Team in International Competition

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sophomore computer science major Hari Sah was on the gold medal team at this year’s Project/Problem-Based Learning competition, hosted by National Taipei University of Technology, where students from New Jersey Institute of Technology brandished their skills against peers from around the world. Sah and three fellow Highlanders from the Albert Dorman Honors College— data science major Haripriya Kemisetti, biomedical engineering major Aliza Mujahid and mechanical engineering technology major An’Jolae Seabrooks — were each assigned to different teams, composed of international students who...

NJIT Devotes Over $10 Million in New Funds for Push in Artificial Intelligence

Monday, September 16, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million. This new effort will leverage the university’s extensive expertise in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and...

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