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Pradnya Desai Awarded in Startup Competition, Off to Microsoft

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Pradnya Desai, a senior computer science major, made it her mission to accomplish as much as possible during her four years at NJIT, amassing an impressive resume that includes multiple awards and recognitions for her work combining technological invention with a desire to positively affect  so...

Senior Success: Badeti, Student Senate Prez, Working at Bloomberg

Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Anuja Badeti started interning at Bloomberg in high school, kept working there during summer breaks from college and will accept a full-time role upon her graduation from the joint B.S./M.S. program in computer science this spring.  It's a strikingly logical career path, considering her childh...

NJIT to Confer 3,100+ Degrees at its 2022 Commencement Ceremony

Friday, May 6th, 2022
LIVE STREAM LINKS: May 11, 2022, 3 p.m.  NJIT, Doctor of Philosophy Hooding Ceremony  https://youtu.be/k7gF15btnYk May 13, 2022, 9:30 a.m.  NJIT, Newark College of Engineering Convocation Ceremony  https://youtu.be/fvaFjMNqZ_U May 13, 2022, 12 p.m.  NJIT,...

Senior Success: Sam Itman's Passion Leads to Cybersecurity Career

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Information technology student Sam Itman has long believed that knowledge and passion for technology can open doors as “it presents a world of opportunities to those who are willing to discover them.” For Itman, these opportunities have led to an impactful internship at Optum and a cybersecurity pos...

Senior Success: Sreya Das Heading to JPMorgan for Cybersecurity

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
Sreya Das, graduating this spring with a bachelor's in computer science and is headed for the cybersecurity team at financial giant JPMorgan Chase, credits much of her success to involvement with activities outside the classroom. Das joined so many NJIT student organizations and academic commi...

ROI-NJ Features NJIT Leaders in Technology Influencer List

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Business publication ROI-NJ included several NJIT executives and faculty among its annual list of New Jersey's top technology influencers. "Innovating: If your company isn’t doing it, it probably will not be around for very long," the publication stated. "Our goal was to select those who are having...

Informatics Professor Applies AI to Auto Traffic Simulation

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Assistant Professor Hua Wei is studying how to build more realistic models for traffic simulation, with the goal of improving predictions by closing the gap between just following traffic laws vs. how people actually drive. That gap can be significant, so Wei is using the latest in artificial ...

NJIT Honors Students for Their Work at the National Cancer Institute and Siemens

Monday, April 25th, 2022
NJIT’s Career Development Services recognized both a graduate student and undergrad in its annual intern and co-op of the year awards. The grad student, Pooja Kittanakere Balaji ’22, is pursuing a master’s in computer science, while the undergrad, Rivka Farrell ’23, is majoring in biology. CDS hon...

Computing Students Provide Real-World Solutions for Bank of America in Capstone Project

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as mor...

GirlHacks Participants Build Apps for Wellness and the Environment

Monday, April 11th, 2022
GirlHacks, an annual event produced by NJIT's Women In Computing Society, partially returned to campus this spring and continued emphasizing its openness to minorities rather than only females. The event, in which most entrants develop mobile applications, was last held virtually in October 2020 wh...