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Arthur Hinds, CompSci Alum, Protects TD Bank Customers from Digital Thieves

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
When someone's job is to protect more than a trillion dollars, you take their advice on cybersecurity seriously — so we should listen to Arthur Hinds '17, TD Bank Group's global head of threat defense operations, who approaches his job by remembering basic lessons learned at NJIT and staying on top ...

Ying Wu College of Computing Programming Team Holds Their Own at Annual ICPC Competition

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Two teams of NJIT Cheetahs and Tigers entered the lion’s den of the leading collegiate programming contest in the world and left with pride for placing in the upper half among some of the top institutions in the New York region at the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Jade...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesk...

Qualcomm Collaboration with Ying Wu College of Computing Brings Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Monday, March 13th, 2023
Imagine a digital system that could predict physical and mental health conditions among college students based on early symptoms and quickly connect them to counseling and psychological services on campus. While a seemingly obvious application of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, the implementati...

Ying Wu College of Computing Researchers Win Awards at Top AI Conference

Monday, March 13th, 2023
Research on trustworthy AI and machine learning earned a Best Paper award for Ying Wu College of Computing assistant professor Hai Phan at the prominent Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence annual conference in Washington last month. Phan's work, XRand: Differentially Private ...

Meet Dora Gomez, Fraud Examiner and Alumni Chapter Lead

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Dora Gomez ’18 walked the cozy, private dining room of Seasons 52 in Paramus, New Jersey greeting fellow NJIT alumni and swapping stories like she has done it dozens of times before. In truth, this was her first time helping to organize an NJIT alumni event as the new volunteer organizer for the nor...

YWCC Students Land Jobs and Internships with Bank of America During Recent Fall Recruiting Event

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
In 2023, there are still a wealth of career opportunities in industries for students who demonstrate the right combination of ability, acumen, and soft skills. Such was the case for many Ying Wu College of Computing Students (YWCC) students who attended a fall on-campus recruitment event and subsequ...

To Engage Black Community, Computer Science Chair Reflects on Past

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
Among 13 children in a struggling Ivory Coast family, it would have been understandable if Vincent Oria went into business, apprenticed to a tradesman, or dreamed of the soccer pitch. Instead, long before becoming chairman of NJIT's Department of Computer Science, he followed his schoolteacher fathe...

NJIT Career Fair Growth Fuels Changes, Innovations for Improved Experiences and Outcomes

Monday, February 27th, 2023
NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented chan...

NJIT Launches PhD Program in Data Science

Friday, February 17th, 2023
Today’s world is driven by data – and data science is what powers the engine in this rapidly expanding global ecosystem. To address the need for talent and knowledge in this emerging field, NJIT’s Departments of Data Science and Mathematical Sciences have launched a new Ph.D. in Data Science program...