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NJIT Hosts National Conversation on AI and the Future of First-Year Engineering

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Engineering educators and students from institutions across the country gathered at New Jersey Institute of Technology for the 2026 First-Year Engineering Experience Conference, examining how universities can prepare beginning engineers for a profession — and an educational environment — being resha...

NJIT Appoints Moshe Kam Interim Provost

Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the appointment of Moshe Kam, Dean of NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as the university’s Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, effectiv...

New Book by NJIT’s Julie Ancis Examines the Psychology of Antisemitism

Monday, August 3rd, 2026
A new book by NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis examines the psychological forces that sustain antisemitism, its effects on individuals and communities and evidence-informed approaches for confronting it. Published by Wiley, “Antisemitism and Jew Hatred: Psychological Perspectives” brings tog...

Distinguished Professor David Bader Has Graph Analytics Benchmark Selected for SPEC CPU 2026

Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
854.graph500, a graph analytics benchmark developed by David Bader, distinguished professor and associate dean for research in the Ying Wu College of Computing and founding director of the Institute for Data Science at NJIT, has been selected for inclusion in SPEC CPU 2026, the newest generation of ...

Comp-Sci Student Wins Best Paper Award at Security and Privacy Conference

Monday, July 27th, 2026
A vulnerability in Google’s Android mobile operating system allows attackers to confirm you are their desired target before unleashing malicious code that they know would only work for a short time, new research authored by a New Jersey Institute of Technology student found. Robert Blacha was lead a...

Lindsay Burke, May '26 Grad, Simplifies Bus Routes and Earns Doctoral Spot at Michigan

Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Commuters may get to work faster and rely less on bus schedules if transit agencies embrace Lindsay Burke’s undergraduate research at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Burke, who graduated in May with a B.S. in computer science and was in the Albert Dorman Honors College, was first author on A Swa...

NJIT Helps Shape AI Transformation Through NJ AI Hub

Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
NJIT was among several New Jersey institutions to participate in the recent NJ AI Hub Statewide Higher Education AI Showcase on June 17, 2026. The event convened leaders from higher education, government, industry, and nonprofit organizations to explore how New Jersey will lead in building a more AI...

Master’s Students in Computing Win Back-to-Back Hackathons for On-the-Spot Solutions

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
When four graduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing aim to win consecutive, highly competitive hackathons by producing two working prototypes in a matter of hours – they “mean it.”  M.S. in Computer Science students Dev Trivedi and Aakash Singh, along with Pruthvi Kadam M.S. ’26 (Da...

Data Scientists Say It’s Not You, It’s Google, In Flap Over AI-summarized Search Results

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Content creators and ordinary Google users alike are harmed by artificial intelligence summaries of search queries, because the summaries are often inconsistent, presenting disreputable results and withholding information from better sources that restrict Gemini training bots, researchers from New J...

This Master's Graduate Came to the US with an AI Idea for Finance That Would Not Lie. NJIT Helped Make Happen.

Friday, June 19th, 2026
Two significant milestones happened for Yash Kamlesh Shah on May 20: he officially graduated with his M.S. in Data Science from the Ying Wu College of Computing; and his startup, Avarieux, was publicly announced, with a waitlist that opened once the company came out of stealth.  Avarieux is an ...