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NJIT Graduate Students Travel To Japan To Study Computer Science
NEWARK, Nov 29 2007
Three graduate students enrolled in NJIT’s computer science master’s degree program will travel to Japan next spring to take advantage of an unusual internship program. For five months the students will study in Tokyo at the prestigious National Institute of Informatics, known in Japan as a national center for information technology research. Video mining, indexing, wireless sensors and network applications will number among the research topics that the three students hope to complete by late summer.The students, all from Harrison, include Sheetal Rajgure, who will take a course on video mining and indexing. Bharat Velagapudi will study correlation clustering and Neeraj Rajgure will look at wireless sensors and network-applications.
“We like these internships because everyone wins,” explained computer science professor Vincent Oria, who organized the program, “Not only do the students learn how research is done in different environments. But when they return, they share their wealth of new knowledge with other NJIT students and faculty.” Oria has worked with colleagues at this Japanese institute since 2000.
NII is Japan's only general academic research institution. Studies focus on the new discipline of informatics and advance integrated research and development activities in information-related fields, including networking, software, and content. Activities range from theoretical and methodological work to applications.
NJIT, New Jersey's science and technology university, at the edge in knowledge, enrolls more than 8,400 students in bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 92 degree programs offered by six colleges: Newark College of Engineering, College of Architecture and Design, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, Albert Dorman Honors College and College of Computing Sciences. NJIT is renowned for expertise in architecture, applied mathematics, wireless communications and networking, solar physics, advanced engineered particulate materials, nanotechnology, neural engineering and e-learning. In 2009, Princeton Review named NJIT among the nation's top 25 campuses for technology and among the top 150 for best value. U.S. News & World Report's 2008 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT in the top tier of national research universities.
