Ying Wu College of Computing

Ying Wu College of Computing Makes NJIT History with Highest Fall Enrollment

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has made history at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Enrollment at YWCC has jumped 12% over the previous record-breaking year to 4,641 students, and now accounts for 37% of the total enrollment at NJIT. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment each rose equally by 12% for the fall semester. Likewise, female representation has also grown along with the college. Women now account for 23% of the YWCC student body. A 93% retention rate, the second highest at NJIT, and an improvement over last year, has also positively influenced the total enrollment...

NJIT Recognizes and Celebrates Impactful Faculty

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s annual tradition of recognizing university faculty who have excelled as researchers, scholars and instructors took place Oct. 4 in the Central King Building’s Agile Strategy Lab. “We celebrate the achievements of our faculty and educators here today not because of what they bring to the classroom or the laboratory, but because of the lives they change,” said John Pelesko, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “We celebrate their commitment to our common goal of student success and the pursuit of knowledge.”  NJIT President Teik...

Six World-Class New Faculty Join Ying Wu College of Computing for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

Monday, October 9, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is proud to formally announce the appointments of six new assistant professors who have joined the departments of Computer Science, Data Science and Informatics. They will begin their tenure as educators and researchers during a time of unprecedented growth for the college and NJIT, particularly in the area of enrollment, with a total of 4,581 YWCC students across all degrees entering the university for the fall semester. This accounts for 35% of NJIT total enrollment and marks an approximate 11% increase over the previous record-breaking year.  All...

Annual NJIT GirlHacks Competition Goes into Space, and Beyond

Monday, October 2, 2023
LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The application is the brainchild of Fizah Fahad, Adrianna Rust and Ayushi Sangoi, who combined to win a $1,500 cash prize for their efforts. The trio coded in CSS, JavaScript, Python and a NASA programming interface. LunaTech was one of 31 submitted projects, built by approximately 130 participants, all working on site from the Campus Center ballroom, said event director Shaili Soni, president...

NJIT Professor Receives NSF Grants Totaling $2.8M to Design Solutions for Responsible AI

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
If you're a human resource specialist grappling with AI-based decision systems for hiring good candidates, or a data scientist trying to develop transparent and accountable ranking algorithms for decision-making in critical socio-technical contexts, you will likely benefit from the research of Aritra Dasgupta, an assistant professor in the Department of Data Science at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Dasgupta is the recipient of two collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling approximately $2.8 million (out of which NJIT’s funding is $860,000) from the Information...

NJIT Launches Council to Hear from Students

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
In an effort for students to share their insights and drive positive change within the NJIT community, Provost and Senior Vice president for Academic Affairs John Pelesko, and Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Marybeth Boger have launched the NJIT Undergraduate Student Advisory Council.  This council will enable enthusiastic undergraduates to have informal conversations with the provost and the dean of students, helping to keep NJIT leadership informed, in real time, about the student experience.  “It’s important to not just plan for the next semester,...

Data Science Techniques Help Evaluate COVID's Impact on Mental Health

Friday, September 22, 2023
In case of another pandemic, authorities might only have a 28-day window to connect vulnerable populations to mental health providers before it’s too late to prevent long-term concerns, according to new research assisted by a data science expert at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The research employed five types of natural-language processing and statistical methods to evaluate more than 350,000 posts in the Reddit subcommunities r/Anxiety and r/Depression, spanning the years 2019-2022, in response to the worldwide dire news and eventual waning of COVID. NJIT Associate Professor Hai...

Big Data Analytics Laboratory Present Three Papers at Prestigious VLDB Conference 2023

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Members of the Big Data Analytics Laboratory in the Ying Wu College of Computing presented three papers at the recent Very Large Database (VLDB) Conference in Vancouver, Canada between Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 2023. VLDB is a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. The VLDB 2023 conference featured research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops, and explored issues in data management, database and information systems research as the technological cornerstones of the emerging...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from 118 to 103 to 97 and now 86 — and supports the findings of other publications that rate U.S. universities, including Money and The Wall Street Journal, which placed NJIT as the second-highest ranked public institution nationally. In key areas like student social mobility and...

Ying Wu College of Computing to Present Award-Winning Papers at IEEE HPEC Conference

Wednesday, September 13, 2023
A research group led by Distinguished Professor David Bader has won the 2023 Student Innovation Award from the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference for their paper “Triangle Counting Through Cover-Edges.” The group features NJIT faculty and students, as well as a high school student. It is composed of Bader, Principal Senior Researcher Zhihui Du, doctoral candidates Fuhuan Li and Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez, Jason Lew ’23, former NJIT research intern Anya Ganeshan of Columbia University and Ahmet Gundogdu of Paramus High School.  Bader also won the...

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