Avanish Kulkarni got his dream job right out of college.

Kulkarni, an Albert Dorman Honors College member who calls East Brunswick home, is graduating with a B.S. in computer science and will move to Silicon Valley this summer to become a software engineer at videogame platform company Roblox.

He scored the coveted position at Roblox after interning there in summer 2025 — and even that was highly competitive, with around 50,000 applicants whittled down to just a couple of hundred students selected.

Like many computer science majors in the NJIT class of ‘26, Jonathan Malave hoped he might land a job at a name-brand software company such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Google.

But when an opportunity appeared on LinkedIn to work for WMG Inc., which makes software for the nuclear waste industry, Malave decided to apply. “I came across this out of nowhere, just applying for some jobs and trying to make anything stick. And then I saw that it was nuclear waste. That’s really cool! I didn't think anything was going to come of it.”

NJIT makes entrepreneurs and scientists, but junior Nidhi Sakpal is obsessed with something else — she makes AI safer.

Sakpal, an Albert Dorman Honors College member from Boonton double-majoring in applied math and computer science, explained that artificial intelligence safety encompasses the analysis, prevention and rectification of anything that causes AI systems to give users incorrect, harmful or unethical information.

NJIT’s annual Scholarship Luncheon is meant to celebrate donor generosity. This year, it also pointed to what comes next.

The event brings together scholarship benefactors, alumni and student recipients, creating space for the kinds of conversations that remind people what scholarship support really does. 

A trio of students from New Jersey Institute of Technology have been selected as the inaugural recipients of STEM scholarships from The Aunt Betty Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the burden of student loans taken on to pay for higher education.

The awards follow a competitive selection process that drew roughly 100 applicants. Seven finalists were interviewed and ultimately three NJIT students were selected: Mitchell Rodriguez of Dunellen, Amir Hayes of Newark and Joshua Hernandez of Teaneck.

Radix IoT announced that its Dailenis González Frómeta Memorial Scholarships have been awarded to a total of 14 students at ULACIT (Costa Rica), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Honoring the company’s late Lead Software Developer who passed away in October 2024, the $30,000 scholarship was divided between 11 students at Frómeta’s ULACIT alma mater, and three students at NJIT.

Rafael Abreu ’25 (Computer Science) came to the U.S. alone as a high school student from the Dominican Republic because he believed in the American dream: work hard, confront obstacles with grit and determination and create your destiny. He knew it would not be easy. But without risk there is no reward. Thanks to the S-STEM scholarship program and other forms of support he received while at NJIT, he was able to transform his ideas and ingenuity into a new — and better — reality. 

Sixth-generation mobile networks arriving in the 2030s will connect your smart devices by dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the data rates of today, and those networks might employ important research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and the State University of New York - Buffalo to make their promises into reality.

Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. 

The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club has proven once again that they are formidable competitors to some of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region at the 2025 ICPC North America Greater New York Regional Contest held at Columbia University, with one team scoring in the top 20 among the likes of Princeton, Cornell and Columbia.