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Guiling 'Grace' Wang Wins IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2023 Best Paper Award

Monday, November 20th, 2023
IEEE Fellow Guiling “Grace” Wang, distinguished professor, associate dean for research, and founding director of the AI Center for Research in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), has been awarded the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2023 Best Land Transportation Paper Award. This accolade, rec...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pa...

Hot Topics of Generative AI are the Focus of 2023 Data Science Summit

Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large langu...

Eight Students Selected for Highly Competitive NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program

Monday, November 6th, 2023
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 recipie...

Researchers Find Ethical Risks Where Mixed-Reality Gaming Meets AI

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The questio...

Record Number of Students Go One-on-One with Employers at NJIT's Career Fair

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
A record number of students and alumni attended New Jersey Institute of Technology’s latest Career Fair — 3,300 — with some 240 companies looking to fill more than 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative education experiences. The macro numbers were impressive — for the third straight fair — but it...

NJIT Recognizes and Celebrates Impactful Faculty

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s annual tradition of recognizing university faculty who have excelled as researchers, scholars and instructors took place Oct. 4 in the Central King Building’s Agile Strategy Lab. “We celebrate the achievements of our faculty and educators here today not because ...

Ying Wu College of Computing Makes NJIT History with Highest Fall Enrollment

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has made history at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Enrollment at YWCC has jumped 12% over the previous record-breaking year to 4,641 students, and now accounts for 37% of the total enrollment at NJIT. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment each rose equally b...

Six World-Class New Faculty Join Ying Wu College of Computing for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

Monday, October 9th, 2023
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 th...

Annual NJIT GirlHacks Competition Goes into Space, and Beyond

Monday, October 2nd, 2023
LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The application is the brainchild of Fizah Fahad, Adrianna Rust and Ayushi Sangoi, who combined to win a ...