This week, nearly 50 of the year’s most promising NJIT student-researchers gathered to present their work to the campus community at the university’s annual year-end research competition — the 2019 Dana Knox Showcase “A Glimpse Into the Future.”

Addressing a critical need in today’s data-driven world, the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT now offers a training program in Data Science and Analytics, tailored to those developing and using this technology in the corporate world. This fall three YWCC professors delivered a three-course version of the program at the United Parcel Service (UPS) campus in Parsippany, N.J.

Fresh off the heels of graduating with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Connor Watson ’18 has an internship lined up crunching data for Quantbot Technologies, a New York City-based private investment firm.