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YWCC Student Start Up Aims to Create an Avalanche of Untapped AI Potential

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
Imagine the ability to leverage sensitive data with full-fledged compliance and security. Encryptech, a cloud computing service focused on handling sensitive data securely, was created by sophomore S-STEM scholar Jonathan Kozlik and his collaborator with a goal to make the training of regulator...

YWCC Students Score in Top 20 at ICPC Regional Competition

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
When a representative from the highly-competitive International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) personally congratulates you on your win, it’s an indication of growth and greater things to come. It signifies that student talent and tenacity thrive when mentored by great leaders. Such...

NJIT STEM Forum Explores AI, Digital Transformation in Schools

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
With artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT rapidly gaining traction among students and teachers alike, it’s no surprise the topic took center focus at NJIT’s 8th Annual STEM Forum for School Leaders, “Leading the Digital Transformation in Our Schools.” The event, hosted by NJIT’s Center for Pr...

4 YWCC Faculty Contribute to Report to the Governor as Part of AI Task Force

Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
Distinguished Professors David Bader and Guiling “Grace” Wang and Professors Cristian Borcea and Vincent Oria in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) served as part of Governor Phil Murphy’s AI Task Force for the state of New Jersey, a team comprised of industry leaders, academic experts, consume...

NJIT Computing Researchers Fix Critical Mistakes in Medical Mobile Apps

Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Potentially deadly mathematical errors are prevalent among mobile applications used in clinical and emergency room settings, but a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Ying Wu College of Computing has found provable solutions that may save lives. The applications, known as me...

Two Research Papers on Mitigating Potential Security Flaws in LLMs Presented at ACM CCS 2024

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
Ph.D. candidates Nhi N Nguyen, Mahmoud Nazzal and Khiem Ton recently presented two papers at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024) that could aid future breakthroughs in improving the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) when generating code. The resea...

NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a m...

YWCC Student Angel Cazares Awarded Prestigious 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship

Monday, November 4th, 2024
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship. This recognition celebrates Cazares' academic dedication and leadership in technology...

Women of Ying Wu College of Computing Study Bias in AI at Annual Grace Hopper Conference

Friday, November 1st, 2024
Members of NJIT’s undergraduate and graduate Women in Computing Society groups attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia took full advantage of opportunities for professional development, networking and industry insights that support their growth in technology fields.  ...

NJIT Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
An NJIT computational research team made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Teams were tasked to solve a highly complex problem: analyzing the intricate network of neurons in the brain of a Drosophila melanogaster — commonly known as the fruit fly. Teams had to treat t...
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