Department of Informatics

When Fusion Recruiting Labs, a tech company that builds employment tools to help customers accelerate hiring processes and increase the efficiency of HR recruitment campaigns, wanted to help their 77 staff members realize maximum benefit from its database systems, they contacted the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT. Through YWCC, Fusion was connected with computer science professor Vincent Oria. Oria worked with Fusion’s management team to create a customized course that would provide Fusion staff with a deep knowledge of database technologies and tools that would help them...

Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property. Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while human controllers are located someplace safe. But if the drones could get a dose of autonomy, through the clever use of artificial intelligence software, then their usefulness could be interactive rather than only serving as flying cameras and heat sensors. Investigations into the feasibility and...

New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree earned in high school, promptly declaring a double major and then adding a third in 2019 because he didn't want to graduate too soon. By doing so, Carlos became the first documented Highlander triple-major in the last 38 years since the Banner registration system began, and probably the...

Ordinary people could soon have greater ability to analyze massive amounts of information, based on new algorithms and software tools being designed at NJIT, intended to simplify access to a programming interface from data scientists at the Department of Defense. It's relatively straightforward to analyze data sets of up to several hundred gigabytes, as the required software is readily available to students and small businesses, but there's a higher barrier to entry for working with tens of terabytes, which generally requires extensive training on high-performance computers, Institute for...