ROI-NJ recognized several members from the NJIT community in its annual list celebrating the diversity of New Jersey’s most impactful people of color, including university administrators, notable alumni and members of boards and committees.

Teik Lim

Five professors and administrators from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have been recognized as "Enterprising Women in Commerce" by Commerce Magazine, an honor that highlights outstanding achievements across a range of industries.

The honorees are among the select group chosen by the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, celebrating excellence in fields including accounting, architecture, environmental services, financial services, health care, higher education, human resources, law, marketing, non-profit work and real estate.

University Lecturer Julio Garcia Figueroa at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) looks forward to teaching his course on prefabricated architecture this semester, and in the future, hopes to create a study abroad program to take HCAD students to his native Mexico. 

Associate Professor Hai Phan in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science, and a pioneer in Trustworthy AI, has recently co-authored a handbook that will guide anyone from expert to beginner who seeks to venture into the realms of trustworthy federated learning.

In data analysis, it’s the outlier information that is usually the most interesting, yet sometimes that information goes unrecognized by the most common evaluation methods because they make inaccurate assumptions.

But now Michael Houle, a senior university lecturer at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Ying Wu College of Computing, along with collaborators in Australia, Denmark and Serbia have become outliers themselves for developing the math to prove that breaking those assumptions can work better than conventional methods.

While excitement builds toward Commencement 2024, celebrations have already begun at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), which recently hosted its annual awards ceremony honoring distinguished alumni, faculty, students and staff.

Innovation is at the heart of New Jersey Institute of Technology, be it in research, the delivery of education or the specialized, high-tech machinery inside the university’s labs and Makerspace. In fact, NJIT aims to be a nexus of innovation under its new strategic plan.

As such, it’s fitting that five Highlanders are being recognized by New Jersey Business Magazine in its first Innovate100 list, which includes accomplished leaders in business, nonprofits, government and academia. 

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design continues to help the local Newark community with projects that will transform the city’s public spaces. 

A group of film students and faculty from the NJIT-Rutgers Theatre Arts Program have taken creative inspiration from the cinematic universe of N.J.-born filmmaker Kevin Smith, and it’s earned them recognition from the iconic writer/director himself.

NJIT Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Wunmi Sadik has recently been honored with the prestigious Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship during a guest appearance at one of the largest scientific conferences on laboratory science in the world, Pittcon.

The Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship is presented each year at Pittcon to an “outstanding individual who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to, and made important contributions that have had a significant impact on education, practice and/or research in laboratory science.”