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$740K Grant Will Develop Trustworthy Federated Learning for Generative AI

Monday, December 18th, 2023
Associate Professor Hai Phan in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science has been awarded a $740,000 grant through the Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI) to develop a trustworthy federated learning (FL) model that will address new standards for AI safety and s...

Grace Wang Joins NJ State Court Artificial Intelligence Committee

Friday, December 15th, 2023
New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are st...

New NJIT Committee Tackles Gender Imbalance in Faculty

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll wo...

Parth Mehta: Building a Founders Mindset for Life Success

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startup and...

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 Pas...

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 langua...

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 recipient has been...

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 question...

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 ...