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NJIT Professor Receives NSF Grants Totaling $2.8M to Design Solutions for Responsible AI

Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
If you're a human resource specialist grappling with AI-based decision systems for hiring good candidates, or a data scientist trying to develop transparent and accountable ranking algorithms for decision-making in critical socio-technical contexts, you will likely benefit from the research of Aritr...

NJIT Launches Council to Hear from Students

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
In an effort for students to share their insights and drive positive change within the NJIT community, Provost and Senior Vice president for Academic Affairs John Pelesko, and Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Marybeth Boger have launched the NJIT Undergraduate Student Advisory...

Data Science Techniques Help Evaluate COVID's Impact on Mental Health

Friday, September 22nd, 2023
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 e...

Big Data Analytics Laboratory Present Three Papers at Prestigious VLDB Conference 2023

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Members of the Big Data Analytics Laboratory in the Ying Wu College of Computing presented three papers at the recent Very Large Database (VLDB) Conference in Vancouver, Canada between Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 2023. VLDB is a premier annual international forum for data management and database ...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from...

Ying Wu College of Computing to Present Award-Winning Papers at IEEE HPEC Conference

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
A research group led by Distinguished Professor David Bader has won the 2023 Student Innovation Award from the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference for their paper “Triangle Counting Through Cover-Edges.” The group features NJIT faculty and students, as well as a high scho...

NJIT and AT&T Work Together to Improve Network Experiences

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
An ongoing collaboration between AT&T and NJIT over the past three years has produced several publications and patent applications for inventions that have the potential to revolutionize network experiences. Using AI to improve customer experiences Artificial intelligence can be used to impro...

Data Science Meets Ironbound Street Shrines in NJIT Undergrad Summer Research

Monday, September 11th, 2023
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 importan...

Washington Monthly Ranking Reflects NJIT Values of Social Mobility, Service

Monday, September 11th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no. 88 among national universities in a ranking based on overall value, service and social mobility, as determined by the non-profit Washington Monthly magazine. The publication’s editors emphasized that such categories are important alternatives ...

As Classes Begin, Meet 10 Highlanders Energizing Campus

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increas...