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Ying Wu College of Computing Professor Has a Mission to LEVEL UP Inclusive Computing Education

Friday, February 9th, 2024
Professor Jim Geller, chair of the department of Data Science, attended a January conference hosted by the Computing Research Initiative’s (CRA) LEVEL UP program, whose mission is to build a nation-wide consensus of best practices among computing departments to increase diversity through inclusive r...

Fernando Vera Buschmann, Fulbright Scholar from Chile, Chose NJIT to Learn from Great Minds

Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and the department of Computer Science are proud to count Fulbright Scholar Fernando Vera Buschmann as a member of its Ph.D. candidate team of researchers, one of a growing number of Fulbright award recipients who have chosen NJIT as an incubator for their profess...

Hrishi Sidhartha is 'Grinding Gears' in a Job Most Gamers Dream About

Thursday, January 18th, 2024
Hrishi Sidhartha ’15, has turned an elective into a career to envy. As a game designer with Grinding Gear Games, he spends his day shaping Path of Exile 2, one of the most anticipated action role-playing games on the market. He had to relocate to the other side of the world — or at least down under ...

Ying Wu College of Computing Professor Presents Research at Multiple Top Scientific Events in Asia

Monday, January 8th, 2024
Professor Cristian Borcea from the Department of Computer Science recently returned from a brief tour of China and Japan where he presented research papers on his continuing work with federated learning for mobile devices as well as a novel approach for improving the revenue of online publishers in ...

VROOM Brings AMIA 2023 Conference into the Center of Ontologies

Thursday, December 21st, 2023
You are here. This familiar phrase to guide finding a more expedient and less complicated direction can now be applied to the complex world of medical ontologies, thanks to research on a project led by the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Professor Jim Geller and Assistant Professor Margarita Vinnikov...

Grace Wang Joins NJ State Court Artificial Intelligence Committee

Friday, December 15th, 2023
New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are s...

Parth Mehta: Building a Founders Mindset for Life Success

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startu...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pa...

Hot Topics of Generative AI are the Focus of 2023 Data Science Summit

Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large langu...

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...
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