Ying Wu College of Computing

Fernando Vera Buschmann, Fulbright Scholar from Chile, Chose NJIT to Learn from Great Minds

Friday, February 2, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and the department of Computer Science are proud to count Fulbright Scholar Fernando Vera Buschmann as a member of its Ph.D. candidate team of researchers, one of a growing number of Fulbright award recipients who have chosen NJIT as an incubator for their professional goals and objectives. He came to NJIT from Osorno, a small town in Patagonia, far south of Santiago, Chile, with a background in physics and pedagogy having obtained his M.Sc. at the University of Chile. His fascination with better understanding the human brain inspired him to pursue...

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and universities through the unique lens of Spanish-speaking students on today's campuses. Each episode offers an intimate view of college life, allowing the entire Spanish-speaking population worldwide a chance to explore colleges. NJIT’s episode of "The College Tour" travels back to the Brick City —...

Undergraduate Computing Student Presents Paper as Lead Author at ACM CKIM 2023

Monday, January 22, 2024
Vaisnavi Nemala, a senior data science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Albert Dorman Honor’s College, presented a paper on which she served as lead author at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2023 in Birmingham, England. The achievement is especially noteworthy, as she is one of very few undergraduate students to present as a lead principal investigator at a conference considered among the most prestigious in the field of technology. Nemala, furthermore, introduced herself to the project during the very first week of...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

Friday, January 19, 2024
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever participation: 3,300 students and alumni and 240 companies packed into the WEC and Naimoli Center. The spring fair, now scheduled for March 4 from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., is shaping up to be another packed house. Students are encouraged to register now for the upcoming fair and for pre-fair events...

Hrishi Sidhartha is 'Grinding Gears' in a Job Most Gamers Dream About

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Hrishi Sidhartha ’15, has turned an elective into a career to envy. As a game designer with Grinding Gear Games, he spends his day shaping Path of Exile 2, one of the most anticipated action role-playing games on the market. He had to relocate to the other side of the world — or at least down under — to join the Auckland, New Zealand-based company, but making necessary life adjustments was literally in the name of the game when offered a once-in-lifetime opportunity. Sidhartha returned to New Jersey and NJIT for the first time since moving seven years ago as a special guest speaker for...

Social Media Star, Milad Mirg, Explains His NJIT Connections and Work Ethic

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Milad Mirghahari, a social media influencer known publicly as Milad Mirg, has more than six million followers each on TikTok and YouTube and is a first-generation NJIT student, Albert Dorman Honors College member and computer science major. Just like NASA astronaut Wally Schirra and Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Leiter Jr., Mirghahari took skills honed in Newark and excelled in public. He is known not for orbiting the planet or throwing baseballs, but for making short videos that depict him trying different jobs, usually in the restaurant or retail fields. Mirghahari, his brother and a...

Ying Wu College of Computing Professor Presents Research at Multiple Top Scientific Events in Asia

Monday, January 8, 2024
Professor Cristian Borcea from the Department of Computer Science recently returned from a brief tour of China and Japan where he presented research papers on his continuing work with federated learning for mobile devices as well as a novel approach for improving the revenue of online publishers in real-time Ad auctions. His paper on Ad auctions, done in collaboration with Forbes, was among 93 accepted out of over 1,000 submissions that were selected for presentation at the premiere research conference on Data Mining, the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2023), in...

Computer Science Professor Zhi Wei Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Friday, January 5, 2024
Professor Zhi Wei in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status effective Jan. 1, 2024. The appointment is in recognition of his significant contributions to knowledge discovery from biological data and in the field of bioinformatics. Following a rigorous evaluation process, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients to the IEEE Board of Directors. Less than 0.1% or approximately 300 voting IEEE members worldwide are selected for this honor annually. Criteria for selection is based upon high-impact scientific...

VROOM Brings AMIA 2023 Conference into the Center of Ontologies

Thursday, December 21, 2023
You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov. A paper on their Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM) system was recently presented at the 2023 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium in New Orleans, along with a demo of the solution. Geller, along with co-principal investigators Ph.D. candidate Navya...

$740K Grant Will Develop Trustworthy Federated Learning for Generative AI

Monday, December 18, 2023
Associate Professor Hai Phan in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science has been awarded a $740,000 grant through the Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI) to develop a trustworthy federated learning (FL) model that will address new standards for AI safety and security as outlined in the White House’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. The highly competitive award is one of 18 funded out of 500+ submissions and will support ProFL, the first Private and Robust FL framework for jointly training machine learning (ML...

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