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Eight Students Selected for Highly Competitive NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Eight Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) students have recently begun their journey as members of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program during fall 2023 through the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each recipie...

Ying Wu College of Computing Makes NJIT History with Highest Fall Enrollment

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has made history at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Enrollment at YWCC has jumped 12% over the previous record-breaking year to 4,641 students, and now accounts for 37% of the total enrollment at NJIT. Graduate and undergraduate enrollment each rose equally b...

Six World-Class New Faculty Join Ying Wu College of Computing for the 2023-2024 Academic Year

Monday, October 9th, 2023
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is proud to formally announce the appointments of six new assistant professors who have joined the departments of Computer Science, Data Science and Informatics. They will begin their tenure as educators and researchers during a time of unprecedented growth for th...

Annual NJIT GirlHacks Competition Goes into Space, and Beyond

Monday, October 2nd, 2023
LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The application is the brainchild of Fizah Fahad, Adrianna Rust and Ayushi Sangoi, who combined to win a ...

NJIT Professor Receives NSF Grants Totaling $2.8M to Design Solutions for Responsible AI

Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
If you're a human resource specialist grappling with AI-based decision systems for hiring good candidates, or a data scientist trying to develop transparent and accountable ranking algorithms for decision-making in critical socio-technical contexts, you will likely benefit from the research of Aritr...

Data Science Techniques Help Evaluate COVID's Impact on Mental Health

Friday, September 22nd, 2023
In case of another pandemic, authorities might only have a 28-day window to connect vulnerable populations to mental health providers before it’s too late to prevent long-term concerns, according to new research assisted by a data science expert at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The research e...

Big Data Analytics Laboratory Present Three Papers at Prestigious VLDB Conference 2023

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Members of the Big Data Analytics Laboratory in the Ying Wu College of Computing presented three papers at the recent Very Large Database (VLDB) Conference in Vancouver, Canada between Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 2023. VLDB is a premier annual international forum for data management and database ...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from...

Ying Wu College of Computing to Present Award-Winning Papers at IEEE HPEC Conference

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
A research group led by Distinguished Professor David Bader has won the 2023 Student Innovation Award from the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference for their paper “Triangle Counting Through Cover-Edges.” The group features NJIT faculty and students, as well as a high scho...

Data Science Meets Ironbound Street Shrines in NJIT Undergrad Summer Research

Monday, September 11th, 2023
Computer science and religion are rarely thought of together as connected research areas, but it’s going well for NJIT student Fernando Mantilla, who is performing a geospatial analysis of more than 200 street shrines in Newark’s historic Ironbound neighborhood. The shrines are tributes to importan...