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Ying Wu College of Computing Matches Record Enrollment with 17 New Instructors for Fall 2022

Monday, October 3rd, 2022
Six new assistant professors have been appointed to the faculty of Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) for the 2022-2023 academic year. They are joined by 11 professors of practice, university lecturers and senior university lecturers who will support the College’s ever-growing enrollment numbers.&n...

Ying Wu College of Computing Shatters Enrollment Records in Fall 2022

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) continues its upward trajectory as an NJIT enrollment leader, achieving a 17% increase relative to last year for a total of almost 4,100 students enrolled for the Fall 2022 semester. As such, YWCC now represents 34% of the entire NJIT student body for the new acad...

'iRecommend' wins GfK's NextGen Data Science Hackathon

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition. “iRecommend” is a pro...

NJIT Hosts Big Data Alliance Symposium with Focus on Education

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
NJIT hosted the ninth New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, bringing together nearly 200 experts from academia, government and industry to share ideas about the present state and future trends of their field. Attendees represented a gamut of careers, not just programmers, which the panelists said...

Computing Students Provide Real-World Solutions for Bank of America in Capstone Project

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as mor...

Revitalized Data Science Club Eyes Insightful Statistics for NJIT Athletics

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Sports provide an everyman's opportunity to explain statistical analysis, and the rejuvenated NJIT Data Science Club is all-in. The club already has more than a dozen members and is led by action-hungry graduate students Jake Byford and Parth Patel, president and vice president respectively, who bo...

Engineering Professor Helps Invent New Methods of Data Management

Friday, March 25th, 2022
Reflect for a moment on how you'd manage your terabyte-scale hard drive if the data were literally one million times bigger. Then you'd be working with exabytes, which is the reality for supercomputer users at federal laboratories across the country, one of which is relying on Assistant Professor Q...

David Bader Named ACM Fellow for Career in Data Science and Supercomputing

Thursday, January 20th, 2022
The ACM has announced NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader in its new class of Fellows. Bader received the honor along with 70 peers in the computing industry, representing just 1% of Association for Computing Machinery membership. "The contributions of the 2021 Fellows run the gamut of the co...

Algorithms Expert is First Woman at NJIT to Become IEEE Fellow

Friday, December 17th, 2021
Guiling (Grace) Wang, professor and associate dean for research in Ying Wu College of Computing, was recently named an IEEE Fellow, one of the electronic technology industry's highest honors. She is the first woman to earn the honor among several male recipients at NJIT and only the second current ...

Data Science Professor Helps Uncover Cosmic Mysteries of Nuclear Physics

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
An NJIT business school professor is teaching graduate students how to apply data science to unique fields, starting with cutting-edge problems in nuclear physics. Dantong Yu, associate professor of business data science, is co-principal investigator for a $250,000 grant derived from a federal $5.7...