Department of Informatics

Eight Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) students have recently begun their journey as members of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program during fall 2023 through the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each recipient has been awarded a scholarship covering full tuition and fees for up to three years beginning as a junior, senior or first year master’s student towards a master's degree in either Cybersecurity and Privacy or IT Administration and Security, along with an annual $27,000 – $37,000 stipend and...

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...

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...

Computer science and religion are rarely thought of together as connected research areas, but it’s going well for NJIT student Fernando Mantilla, who is performing a geospatial analysis of more than 200 street shrines in Newark’s historic Ironbound neighborhood. The shrines are tributes to important figures in Catholicism, generally made from painted tiles but sometimes in the form of statues, canvas paintings or photographs. They are located in the windows and entryways of homes and small businesses. They are common in ancient cities like Rome, but also in Catholic communities throughout...