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2026 Cybersecurity SFS Cohort Has a New Name – And AI-Related Approach

Thursday, November 12th, 2026
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI) has graduated 50 students since its inception as part of the pre-existing CyberCorps® Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) program, funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In return for competitive scholarship awards, which include full ...

YWCC Awarded $1 Million Congressionally Directed Spending Grant to Support AI-Enabled Cybersecurity Clinic

Friday, November 6th, 2026
With leadership from the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT has been awarded a $1 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education that will support expansion of NJIT’s current student-powered Security Operations Center (SOC), establishing a student-run AI-enabled cybersecurity clinic, ...

GirlHacks 2026: The Enchanted Grove Cast a Spell on Excellence

Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
If success is measured in numbers, GirlHacks 2026 and its theme of The Enchanted Grove has broken records for what could be called the best NJIT hackathon in years. But then this year’s event went beyond metrics to provide an intangible experience for corporate sponsors and student hackers alike tha...

Improving Community Water Through Citizen Science

Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Lead is a neurotoxin, particularly dangerous to infants and children. In 2017, when tests revealed hazardous levels of the heavy metal in Newark’s water, the city raced to replace more than 18,000 lead service lines in record time. While federal, state and city officials responded to the infrastruct...

NJIT Partners on New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative to Drive Statewide Innovation

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill was joined today by a contingent of representatives from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative (NJSCI), a groundbreaking public-private partnership that will drive the next generation of research, innova...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty to the Departments of Computer Science and Data Science for 2026-2027 Academic Year

Friday, October 16th, 2026
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to announce the appointments of two new assistant professors who have already made a noticeable impact on students during the first half of the fall 2026 semester. Varun Madathil comes to the Department of Computer Science direct from his postdoctoral ...

NJIT Spinout OppyAI Takes Private Hybrid AI to the Global Stage

Monday, October 12th, 2026
What if organizations could use powerful cloud AI without handing over readable prompts, confidential context, or generated responses? OppyAI, an NJIT spinout led by Associate Professor Hai Phan in the Department of Data Science, is tackling that challenge with Neural Crypto, a technology designed t...

NJIT Computing Researchers Awarded for Code Evaluation Paper

Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Common methods of measuring how people understand programming code are being analyzed in a new way by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology, bringing a technique from social science into the world of computer science. Their goals are to correct what they see as flawed approaches in the s...

David Bader Named to 2026 Class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
David A. Bader, distinguished professor and founding director of the Institute for Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing, has been named to the 2026 Class of Distinguished Contributors of the IEEE Computer Society. The Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program is a permanent designati...

Federal Scholarships Now Available Where AI and Cybersecurity Meet

Friday, August 28th, 2026
Beginning this fall, New Jersey Institute of Technology students who study artificial intelligence and cybersecurity can earn full scholarships in exchange for working in government jobs after graduation. The deal is happening because NJIT was accepted into the National Science Foundation’s new Cybe...