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NJIT Ranked #1 Public University in NJ for Value, Salary in WSJ's '2026 Best Colleges'

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/Statista “2026 Best Colleges” rankings. NJIT achieved strong placement in categories that highlight return on investmen...

YWCC Secure Database Management Researchers Publish Secure Document Storage Solutions in VLDB 2025

Friday, September 26th, 2025
Assistant Professor Shantanu Sharma and Ph.D. student Komal Kumari in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science have devised a solution to secure document systems beyond standard encryption. The research has been published in VLDB Conference (Very Large Data Bases), a premier...

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...

Ying Wu College of Computing is Honored to Announce Six New Faculty for 2025-2026

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) proudly welcomes six recently appointed assistant professors to the departments of Computer Science and Data Science for the 2025-2026 academic year. These individuals all bring unique expertise that will transform research and experiential learning during a time ...

NJIT Distinguished Cybersecurity Expert is a Panelist at AARP New Jersey 2025 Fraud Summit

Sunday, September 21st, 2025
Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science participated as a panelist at AARP New Jersey’s 2025 Fraud Summit: Decoding Fraud in the Age of AI. He previously spoke at the AARP Fraud Summit: Fraud 360 – Awareness, Prevention & Recovery in spring 2...

NJIT's Fall Career Fair Connects Thousands of Students with Employers

Friday, September 19th, 2025
More than 3,300 students and alumni filled the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center and Naimoli Tennis Center on Sept. 17 for NJIT’s Fall 2025 Career Fair, one of the largest STEM-focused career fairs in the region. Nearly 240 organizations — spanning engineering, computing, architectur...

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in sp...

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an...

YWCC Student–Faculty Team Wins Best Presentation Award for Ant Swarm Simulation

Monday, September 15th, 2025
Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and utilized, thanks to research conducted by recent graduate Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor...

Is Computer Science Education Still Worth It? Let History Be Your Guide

Friday, August 29th, 2025
Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before. The best-known ones happened in the mid-1980s after the PC boom and in the early-2000s after the dot-com boom. There are reasons to believe that computing in general will recover from the current bust, but there might be a shi...
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