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YWCC Students Rank Among Best at ICPC Regionals for Third Year

Monday, November 24th, 2025
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club has proven once again that they are formidable competitors to some of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region at the 2025 ICPC North America Greater New York Regional Contest held at Columbia University, with one team scoring in the top 20...

Pritam Sen PhD ’25 Authors Paper with Professor Cristian Borcea at ACM CCS Conference, Now Researches with Meta

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Pritam Sen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at NJIT in May 2025, and has achieved what in horse racing is called the triple crown. He most recently had a first-author paper at the highly competitive ACM CCS conference with his Ph.D. advisor, Professor Cristian Borcea. The paper presented CryptGN...

AI Minor at NJIT Creates a Foundation for All Students

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
The increasing need to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) pervades every aspect of daily life and has created new opportunities for students across all levels to learn about what is becoming fundamental to transforming the modern business infrastructure. Thanks to several recent a...

Mark Cartwright Uses AI to Give Non-Verbal Performers a Voice in New Opera

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Art is rooted in thought and emotion. The greatest music and drama allow viewers and performers alike to feel joy, anger or sadness as a shared communicative experience. But how does someone with no voice “sing” in an opera? Assistant Professor Mark Cartwright, who leads the Sound Interaction and Co...

NJIT Students Develop Mental Health Side-Effect Tracker Recognized at Pfizer Hackathon

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect tracker that earned third place...

NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient Emergencies

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers. Truesdell works on the technical challenges inherent in multiple peo...

NJIT's Julie Ancis Explores Cyberpsychology's Role in Modern Computing in ACM Publication

Friday, October 10th, 2025
In a new article featured in Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis explores how cyberpsychology — the study of the two-way relationship between people and technology — is reshaping modern computing. Presenting more than a single expe...

Launch of NJIT's B.S. in Enterprise AI Cultivates Next-Generation Tech Talent

Friday, October 10th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology's newly-announced Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Enterprise AI will be available to students beginning in fall 2026, with the intention of developing next-level professionals that extends beyond a traditional technical degree. Offered by NJIT's Ying Wu College of Co...

NJIT Celebrates Faculty, Staff in 2025 Nexus of Excellence Awards

Thursday, October 9th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the second annual Nexus of Excellence Awards Oct. 8 in the Campus Center Atrium, celebrating the university’s faculty and staff whose achievements exemplify NJIT’s mission and values. Building on last year’s inaugural ceremony, the 2025 event recogniz...

GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where everyone — including the men — are invited to compete. The co...