Ying Wu College of Computing

Volunteerism is a mainstay at NJIT, with students and faculty engaged in a range of initiatives to better the community. Such efforts, amounting to more than 59,000 hours of community service over the past year alone, have been recognized both nationally and locally.   The university has made the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, “one of the highest recognitions a university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement,” six times. And just recently, NJIT received another nod with a Commerce and Industry Association of...

Innovation Day is a showcase of cutting-edge, student-led research that includes inventions that improve lives, novel business ideas, computer games and fundamental scientific research. This year, nearly three dozen student projects – from mapping applications for the transportation industry, to human control interfaces for surrogate robots, to novel drugs that target cholesterol – will be on display in the Campus Center on April 10. A growing number of these undergraduate researchers are taking their innovations on the road: to technology conferences, along commercialization pathways such...

Social Interaction Laboratory The Social Interaction Lab is an interdisciplinary research hub that combines psychology, communication, computing and design to understand how people interact with technology. The lab focuses in particular on studying technologies that are social, such as mobile-health apps, multiplayer games and social media. Many of the recent projects revolve around technology and mental health, including the development of a mobile app to support women in STEM, the use of bots to provide social support in virtual environments, and an examination of how algorithms and...

Prior to taking the game modification development course taught by University Lecturer D.J. Kehoe last spring, computer science major Angela Vitaletti ’18 had never developed or programmed a videogame before. “I would always bite off more than I could chew, and never finish,” said Vitaletti, who is from Middlesex and transferred to NJIT from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania. “I took game mod as a way to motivate myself because it has real deadlines and projects that D.J. helps make achievable.” To guide the learning process and create a culture of accountability,...