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Four YWCC Data Science Faculty Present at Prestigious NeurlPS 2025

Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Assistant Professors Yingcong Li, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Lingxiao Wang and Shuai Zhang, four recent additions to the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), had the honor of presenting their research papers at the 2025 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processi...

NJIT AI Researcher Makes Small Language Models Accessible

Thursday, January 29th, 2026
While ordinary people around the world are waking up to large language models on the cloud, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology want you to know about the power of small models on your own hardware.It’s not unlike fifty years ago, when people were becoming aware of business computers t...

NJIT Student Inventors' Greenhouse Climate System Blooms With an AI 'Brain'

Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Inspiration often sprouts in unexpected places. For electrical engineering students Kermina David '27 and Santiago Garcia '27, the taste of a tropical fruit swiftly ripened into an interest in greenhouses. It then branched into a quest to help farmers manage greenhouse crops more efficiently.David a...

US News Ranks Online Programs at NJIT Among Nation's Best

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Online education programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) rank among the top 100 in the country, according to the U.S. News & World Report. NJIT earned high marks across degree-granting programs in business, engineering and information technology. NJIT's master's programs in in...

Women’s Tennis Wins Against Seton Hall, 5-2

Monday, January 26th, 2026
The NJIT women's tennis team earned its first victory of the 2026 season on Saturday afternoon, defeating visiting Seton Hall, 5-2, in the Highlanders' home opener at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility.NJIT set the tone early by claiming the crucial doubles point and followed with...

Rituja Bhattacharya - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 2026

Monday, January 26th, 2026
Rituja Bhattacharya is a second-year PhD student in the ECE department at NJIT, advised by Dr. Cong Wang. Her research focuses on minimalist robotic manipulation for domestic services, motivated by everyday tasks such as cooking, prioritizing durability and affordability. She has also developed gene...

Brain Injury Expert Bryan Pfister is Named a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society

Monday, January 26th, 2026
Bryan Pfister, a pioneer in the study of brain injuries and their impact on the central nervous system and human behavior, is a newly inducted Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.Pfister, a professor of biomedical engineering and chair of the department, was tapped in late 2025 for his sign...

NJIT Reflects on the Smithsonian Recognition of Martin Tuchman’s Legacy in Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
As the nation gears up for its 250th birthday, New Jersey Institute of Technology recalls that Martin Tuchman ‘62 — the namesake of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management — is among the select Americans whose success stories have been preserved at the Smithsonian Institution, America's keeper of...

A Journey to the Top: Zuniga Becomes NJIT’s All-Time Leading Scorer

Monday, January 19th, 2026
Senior Alejandra Zuniga made history on Saturday becoming NJIT's all-time leading scorer in women's basketball history in the Highlanders 78-65 road victory over Bryant in America East Conference women's basketball action inside Chase Athletic Center.Zuniga, who entered the game with 1,489...

NJIT Launches Peer-to-Peer Sustainability Program to Strengthen Environmental Leadership

Thursday, January 15th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology is advancing its commitment to sustainability with the launch of a new Peer-to-Peer Sustainability Engagement Program led by the Office of Sustainability. Supported by a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) grant titled “Decarbonizing New ...