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...

ChatGPT: Opening Your "I"(ntelligence) to What's True and Truly Artificial

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
This is an opinion piece by Professor James Geller - Chair of the Department of Data Science The ChatGPT program has been a topic of discussion in every single professional meeting that I have recently attended, and in most cases without being on the agenda. The professional mailing lists of HS teac...

Startup Jobs Fair Connects NJIT Students to Local Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
NJIT's Entrepreneur Society hosts an annual startup job fair, providing students with the opportunity to pursue careers and meet directly with the founders of new local companies. Hundreds of students attend, many looking for the perfect match, while others were there to network or learn about the s...

Sayyid Ali '17 Among '30 Under 30' by Forbes for Corporate Diversity Startup

Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Sayyid Ali, a 2017 alumnus of NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, recalled a job interview at a software company in New York where the only other Black person he saw was the elevator attendant — and now he's on a mission to prevent that from happening to anyone else. Ali and his three co-founders a...

Accenture Working with Institute for Data Science to Combat Software Supply Chain Attacks

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Accenture, a leader in information consulting services, is collaborating with NJIT’s Institute for Data Science, led by Distinguished Prof. David Bader, to develop methods to mitigate risks arising in the use of open-source components in the software supply chain. Modern cloud-based software is incr...

NJIT to Offer New Graduate Programs in Artificial Intelligence

Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
NJIT’s Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing is launching two new graduate programs in artificial intelligence during the 2023 academic year, in support of the increasing demand for qualified AI engineers and analysts to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making in the ...

M.S. Degrees in Security, Data Science Ranked No. 4 in Nation by Fortune

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked fourth in the nation for its M.S. in Cybersecurity and online M.S. in Data Science, according to Fortune magazine. Researchers in both fields were quite busy in 2022, working at the Newark main campus and NJIT @JerseyCity, and through Ying Wu College ...