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College of Computing to Modernize MIPS Online System, Connecting Healthcare Providers with Medicare

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Over the last few years, Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has been involved in a number of commercial software development projects, typically outsourced from corporations. By employing the skills of its international students, many of whom have prior experience in software development, the Colle...

Salam Daher Wins Tech Innovator Award for Healthcare Simulation

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Salam Daher, assistant professor of informatics, this week received the Society for Simulation in Healthcare's Technology Innovator of the Year award in recognition of four projects addressing patient simulation. Daher joined NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing in 2019 to continue her research at t...

Computing Student Logan Reyes Answers the Call Where Help is Needed

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Logan Reyes was named by his parents after James “Logan” Howlett, otherwise known by his codename Wolverine. Perhaps Marvel’s superhero is an apt comparison for a young man who states that he “wakes up every day striving to make an impact.”  People may not recognize him behind today’s civilian...

NSF Hub, With NJIT as Member, Now Taking Applications to Commercialize Research

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges ...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Names Dr. Teik C. Lim as University's Ninth President

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Pr...

Computing Student Applied Neural Networks to Sound Waves as AMD Intern

Monday, December 20th, 2021
Bhargav Samineni loves applied math, and there are few better ways to see math in action than working on scientific computing problems with a mentor from a chip company like AMD. Samineni interned last summer at the University of California/Los Angeles - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, ...

Algorithms Expert is First Woman at NJIT to Become IEEE Fellow

Friday, December 17th, 2021
Guiling (Grace) Wang, professor and associate dean for research in Ying Wu College of Computing, was recently named an IEEE Fellow, one of the electronic technology industry's highest honors. She is the first woman to earn the honor among several male recipients at NJIT and only the second current ...

International Team Developing New Algorithms for Streaming Graph Data

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Four professors across the globe are collaborating to solve real-world problems in cybersecurity, health, and various areas of social science through a project called Streaming Graph Algorithms under the new Institute for Future Technologies, a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology ...

Data Science Professor Helps Uncover Cosmic Mysteries of Nuclear Physics

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
An NJIT business school professor is teaching graduate students how to apply data science to unique fields, starting with cutting-edge problems in nuclear physics. Dantong Yu, associate professor of business data science, is co-principal investigator for a $250,000 grant derived from a federal $5.7...

WiFi and Light-Based Networks Combine for Better Virtual Reality Systems

Thursday, December 9th, 2021
"Why not both?" is a social media meme, but it's also the proposed answer to a problem for the designers of virtual reality systems, who generally must rely on wireless signals that are reliable but not as fast as needed. It's already hard enough to make virtual reality look realistic, without chop...