Ying Wu College of Computing

NJIT Celebrates Largest Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her device was “all the women who can't get easy access to mammograms and try to maybe build something, or start to build something that can help improve that problem.” Her device will use piezoelectric polymers, which generate charge in response to mechanical stress, and have much potential for...

NJIT Renames College of Science and Liberal Arts, Honoring Historic Gift from Alumnus Jordan Hu

Monday, August 5, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of its College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a former member of the university’s Board of Trustees. Hu’s contribution marks the single largest philanthropic commitment ever made by an NJIT graduate to the university, and will provide crucial funding to JHCSLA that will enhance STEM education and research across campus, and open a range of...

Personable and Accomplished NJIT Alum Endows Scholarships to Bring Women into STEM

Tuesday, July 30, 2024
The legacy of Kelly O’Connor, who was an active alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology for 30 years, endures with two new scholarships that will serve female students who are interested in STEM. The Kelly A. O’Connor Pre-College Scholarship will cover the cost of summer programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students in elementary, middle and high school who need financial help. It will be awarded annually to at least three girls. The Kelly A. O’Connor Opportunity Scholarship will help first-year undergraduates who previously participated in pre-college...

Hai Phan Authors Book to Provide Insights into Trustworthy Federated Learning

Thursday, July 25, 2024
Associate Professor Hai Phan in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science, and a pioneer in Trustworthy AI, has recently co-authored a handbook that will guide anyone from expert to beginner who seeks to venture into the realms of trustworthy federated learning. "Handbook of Trustworthy Federated Learning" is published by Springer Publishing, a leading source of health care books, textbooks and medical journals for medical professionals, professors and universities, is co-authored by My T. Thai, research foundation professor in the department of Computer & Information...

Researchers Leveraging AI to Train (Robotic) Dogs to Respond to Their Masters

Wednesday, July 17, 2024
An international collaboration seeks to innovate the future of how a mechanical man’s best friend interacts with its owner, using a combination of AI and edge computing called edge intelligence. The project is sponsored through a one-year seed grant from the Institute for Future Technologies (IFT), a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).  Assistant Professor Kasthuri Jayarajah in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing is researching how to design a socially assistive model of her Unitree Go2 robotic dog that will...

Sunblock for Solar Panels: NJIT Startup Merges Data, Material Science

Thursday, June 20, 2024
Materium Technologies, a startup company with deep NJIT roots, is bringing data science innovations into the slowly evolving field of solar energy panels. Startups are always a gamble, but the Materium team has a good hand, with two pair of Highlanders — recent alumni Sheldon Fereira (M.S. ‘23) and Scott Daniel (M.S. ‘24), advised by Professor Nuggehalli Ravindra and Adjunct Instructor Michael Jaffe. Their collective scientific expertise spans the worlds of artificial intelligence, applied physics, biomedical engineering, and semiconductors. Their idea evolved throughout 2023 and the...

Fernanda Somohano Ortega '27 Wants to Connect Her Soccer Passion with NJIT Degree

Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Fernanda Somohano Ortega ‘27 is eyeing cybersecurity jobs in the sports world, or better yet an opportunity to work in Barcelona and support her favorite soccer club. With the help of the Innovation Fellow of The Knowledge House (TKH), the NJIT computer science major is closing in fulfilling her career aspirations.  “In St. Benedict’s, they really helped me get into NJIT,” said Somohano Ortega. “I came to a tour during the summer between my junior and senior year and fell in love. I just felt that this was the place.” Born in Mexico City, Somohano Ortega moved to the United States...

US News & World Report Ranks 2 NJIT Graduate Programs in Top 100 Nationally

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
The latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report continue to boost the national standing of New Jersey Institute of Technology in the fields of engineering and computer science, with both programs ranking in the top 100. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) ranks No. 80 on the publication’s list of the Best Engineering Schools in the U.S. — the ninth consecutive year that NCE has made the top 100. “NJIT’s enduring placement in the top 100 reflects our intentional investment in hiring first-rate faculty, building and maintaining world-class research facilities...

Andrew Truong MS '24 Comes Full Circle in Computing

Monday, June 17, 2024
Andrew Truong ’06, M.S. ’24, first came to NJIT as an undergraduate computer science major but soon changed his program to civil engineering, completing his degree in the subject and working in that field for two years before obtaining a teaching certification in math. During that time, in addition to honing his skills in pre-calculus, he also delved back into learning the finer points of C++, Java and JavaScript. Now, after a 14-year career teaching math and computer science at Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, New Jersey, he will employ his newly earned M.S. in Computer Science...

NJIT Earns Top Rating in Money's List of the Best Colleges in America

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the top rating in Money’s 2024 analysis of the Best Colleges in America. With five stars, NJIT tied Princeton University as the highest-rated university in New Jersey and matched STEM schools like MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. The rating marks an improvement from last year, when NJIT earned 4 ½ stars. In 2023, Money shifted from a numerical ranking of the top universities and colleges in the U.S. to individual ratings, based on factors such as graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial...

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