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NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a m...

YWCC Student Angel Cazares Awarded Prestigious 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship

Monday, November 4th, 2024
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship. This recognition celebrates Cazares' academic dedication and leadership in technology...

Women of Ying Wu College of Computing Study Bias in AI at Annual Grace Hopper Conference

Friday, November 1st, 2024
Members of NJIT’s undergraduate and graduate Women in Computing Society groups attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia took full advantage of opportunities for professional development, networking and industry insights that support their growth in technology fields.  ...

NJIT Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
An NJIT computational research team made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Teams were tasked to solve a highly complex problem: analyzing the intricate network of neurons in the brain of a Drosophila melanogaster — commonly known as the fruit fly. Teams had to treat t...

7 NJIT Students Awarded Through NSF's CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service

Thursday, October 24th, 2024
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected seven high-caliber students to join the fall 2024 cohort of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program (SFS). The competitive scholarship is awarded following a rigorous applica...

Panel Reminds Us That Artificial Intelligence Can Only Guess, Not Reason for Itself

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
Expert panelists took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence, at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month. The panel moderator was institute director David Bader, who is also a distinguished professor in NJIT Ying Wu Colleg...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty for 2024-2025

Monday, October 7th, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to formally announce the appointments of four new assistant professors who will lead research and education initiatives in the departments of Data Science and Informatics during the 2024-2025 academic year. These new faculty members have collectively c...

NJIT Nationally Recognized for Serving Students Connected to the Military

Monday, October 7th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned national recognition for how it serves students connected to the military, be they active members or veterans. NJIT is featured in G.I. Jobs’ list of 2024-25 Military Friendly Schools, earning a silver distinction. More than 1,800 schools participated i...

NJIT Celebrates Innovation and Excellence at 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards

Friday, September 27th, 2024
A cornerstone of NJIT's annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at NJIT. The 2024 awardees include pioneers in green technology, public health, architecture and entrepreneurshi...

NJIT PhD Researcher Develops Secure Code Generation System, Achieves Early Conference Acceptance

Friday, September 27th, 2024
Research from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) addresses a critical issue in AI-powered code generation: the prevalence of security vulnerabilities. Ph.D. student Khiem Ton and his colleagues have developed SGCode, a system that combines advanced AI techniques with security analysis tools t...
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