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NJIT Foundation Board Adopts New Name

Wednesday, January 10th, 2024
In a significant move to align with contemporary values and foster a truly inclusive environment, the Board of Overseers of the Foundation at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) unanimously passed a resolution to change its official name. The governing body will now be known as the "Board of D...

Tariq Francis Earns Third America East Rookie of the Week Honor

Monday, January 8th, 2024
NJIT's Tariq Francis was named America East men's basketball Rookie of the Week for his performance in Saturday's 79-73 loss to visiting UAlbany in both teams conference openers. Francis established a new career-high with 22 points on 10-of-17 shooting for the Highlanders. The freshman al...

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 ...

Deniz Najafi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 2024

Friday, January 5th, 2024
Deniz Najafi is a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Professor Shaahin Angizi at the ACAD Lab. Her research focuses on Processing-in-Memory and In-sensor computing. Beyond the world of research, Deniz harbors a deep appreciation for literature and is an avid reader. Her affinity for the arts was pr...

Computer Science Professor Zhi Wei Elevated to IEEE Fellow

Friday, January 5th, 2024
Professor Zhi Wei in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status effective Jan. 1, 2024. The appointment is in recognition of his significant contributions to knowledge discovery from biological data and in the field of bioinformatics. Follo...

National Science Foundation Funds NJIT Professor Investigating Next-Gen Energy Storage

Friday, January 5th, 2024
From laptops to cars, society has come to rely on rechargeable batteries — and the demand is only growing. This surge means researchers are racing to figure out the most efficient ways to manage this type of energy storage.  While current designs utilize microparticle-based technology, it’s in...

An Engineer's Journey from NJIT Undergrad to Board Member and Mentor

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
It has been close to 50 years since Bob Medina ’75 graduated from NJIT as an engineer, and when he looks back at his journey, he marvels at how NJIT gave him the tools to excel. In fact, he still has the slide rule he used in class, in the days before calculators were allowed and laptops existed. “...

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...

NJIT Center to Help NJ and NY Clean Up Environmentally and Be Energy Efficient

Thursday, December 21st, 2023
The Center for Community Systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology is partnering with the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico to help communities improve their environmental conditions and become more energy efficient. Inter-American is leading the multistate and territory effort, which is...

Voice Assistants 'Like Us' Affect How Users Process Misinformation, Study Suggests

Thursday, December 21st, 2023
Voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri now have the ears of an estimated 142 million users in the United States, but just how much we trust and listen to AI assistants for daily information may come down to how much we identify with them personality-wise. That’s the takeaway from a study...