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Qirui Tian - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2025

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
Qirui Tian is a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Dr. Qing Liu in the ECE Department at NJIT. Qirui joined Dr. Liu's lab in September 2021 and has research that focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC), data reduction, I/O and storage systems. What would you say that could be the next big thing in y...

Peterson's Gem Guides Highlanders Past Maine in Series Finale

Monday, March 31st, 2025
Brandon Peterson posted his best outing of the season so far, tossing 6.2 shutout innings while allowing just one base hit as NJIT baseball salvaged the final game of its series with Maine with a 2-0 victory. How it Happened Peterson was efficient early, setting down the first six hitters he f...

Men's Volleyball Sweeps D'Youville for Final Non-Conference Match

Saturday, March 29th, 2025
The NJIT men's volleyball team moved back into the win column, sweeping visiting D'Youville, 3-0, to conclude the non-conference portion of the schedule on Saturday afternoon inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. NJIT snaps a nine-match skid and improves to 8-12 overall while ...

NJIT Undergrad Wins Association for Women in Mathematics' National Essay Contest

Friday, March 28th, 2025
As most students were buried in final exams last December, Iniobong Ofonime took an extra assignment outside her usual work as an engineering student — rather than applying mathematics to solve problems, she decided to profile an inspirational mathematician. Her efforts have added up to a first-pla...

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wei, who joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing in 2008 and now holds the role of distinguished professor, also became an IEEE Fellow in 2024. “Being elect...

Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive Hackathons

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally. Sponsored by tech giants like NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, TreeHacks received more than 12,000...

YWCC Makes an Impact at AAAI Conference 2025

Thursday, March 27th, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) was a notable presence at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence during the month of March. Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Research and External Relations Guiling “Grace” Wang served as Sponsorship Chair for this year’s event, i...

NJIT Alumni Women Leading Architecture Design Technology

Thursday, March 27th, 2025
The architecture, engineering and construction industry is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by technological advancements reshaping how projects are designed, coordinated and executed. Three alumnae of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design — Gaya...

NJII and Cognome Partner to Advance AI-Powered Health Care Solutions

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), and Cognome are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to transform patient care with AI and ML solutions. This partnership leverages Cognome's ethical AI tools, developed at two leading academic health care systems, with NJII's professional services to d...

From 3D Bioprinting to Disease Tracking, NJIT Showcases its Groundbreaking Labs

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
Throughout the year, NJIT researchers focus on unsolved problems in areas such as medical science, energy sustainability and cybersecurity and test new methods to tackle them. Each spring, at the annual Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase, they step out of their labs to present th...