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Computing College Helps Non-Profit Build Public Data Access Tools

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
DataSourceNJ, as a startup and non-profit organization aiming to democratize access to local public data, is turning to NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing for technical expertise in data access, organization, analysis and visualization. The organization is led by entrepreneur Michael Goldstein, da...

NJIT's Vector Captures Numerous Awards at College Media Contests

Thursday, April 7th, 2022
NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universi...

Revitalized Data Science Club Eyes Insightful Statistics for NJIT Athletics

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Sports provide an everyman's opportunity to explain statistical analysis, and the rejuvenated NJIT Data Science Club is all-in. The club already has more than a dozen members and is led by action-hungry graduate students Jake Byford and Parth Patel, president and vice president respectively, who bo...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game develo...

IT Student Sam Itman Helps Modernize Optum

Monday, March 14th, 2022
Some might say that Sam Itman’s direction in life was preordained by his last name, as this “IT man” has had a passion for technology since childhood. He states that he became infatuated with technology because “it presents a world of opportunities to those who are willing to discover them.” As a se...

NJIT Machine Learning Expert Pan Xu Combats COVID Vaccine Inequity

Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
An NJIT computer scientist studied COVID vaccine data from Minnesota to design equitable methods of distributing vital resources during any widespread emergency. The resulting algorithm showed that giving everyone equal access to vital resources isn't necessarily the best approach, depending on the...

New Research Shows How 2D Layouts Can Be Popped Up into 3D Structures

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Imagine designing an inexpensive, flat and strong structure that bends perfectly into Spaceship Earth from Disney's EPCOT theme park. NJIT's Przemyslaw Musialski, associate professor of computer science, believes his latest research is a step in the right direction, sitting at the intersection of a...

NJIT Reaffirmed As An Elite Research University, Retains R1 Classification

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification. First published in 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institution...

US News and World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs Top 100 Nationally, Top 3 Statewide

Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Three of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, and in the top three for New Jersey institutions. More colleges and universities than ever before began offering distance learning options in response to ...

David Bader Named ACM Fellow for Career in Data Science and Supercomputing

Thursday, January 20th, 2022
The ACM has announced NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader in its new class of Fellows. Bader received the honor along with 70 peers in the computing industry, representing just 1% of Association for Computing Machinery membership. "The contributions of the 2021 Fellows run the gamut of the co...