Written by: Jesse Jenkins

Concluding our Senior Success series on honorees from the 2026 HCSLA Awards, we spotlight Thomas Omiatek ahead of Commencement 2026.

Academic excellence helped earn Thomas Omiatek the HCSLA Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Mathematical Sciences — but it was the hundreds of hours he spent tutoring peers in the Central King Building that set him apart.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

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.

As baseball fans celebrated Opening Day, one NJIT mathematician has already played out the entire 2026 season — on paper.

Bruce Bukiet, a mathematics professor in NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts, has released his annual statistical projections for Major League Baseball's 162-game regular season, a tradition he has maintained since 1998. Nearly three decades in, the model remains as sharp as ever.

Written by: Jesse Jenkins

If you wanted to see how AI and research across the humanities and sciences are reshaping each other in real time, NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (HCSLA) offered a front-row seat during the university’s first AI Exploration Day.

The all-day AI takeover of campus highlighted the college’s diverse faculty and student research — covering everything from what the future holds for ethical AI design and robotics, to the latest AI-assisted efforts to alert Earth of eruptions on the Sun.

Written by: Tracey Regan

Eliza Michalopoulou, a mathematician who develops acoustic techniques to reveal uncharted features of the ocean and the movements of its inhabitants, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Foundation Excellence in Research and Innovation award.

Her field, geoacoustic inversion, uses signal processing and mathematical models to transform underwater sound waves into detailed information about the location of sources such as submarines and whales, and characteristics of the seabed. She studies how physical properties of the ocean shape the way sound travels beneath the surface.

Written by: Evan Koblentz

Scholarships help many students get to college, but for Jonathan Kozlik a scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of other people’s artificial intelligence applications.

Written by: Jesse Jenkins

NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (HCSLA) capped one of the most eventful years in its history with its annual awards ceremony recently — the first under its new name, which was prominently displayed on gonfalons and signage decorating the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center to mark the occasion.

Written by: Jesse Jenkins

Standout seniors from NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (HCSLA) are capping off their undergraduate journey with one last accolade for achievements across academics and research, athletics and campus leadership.

Fresh from receiving the Outstanding Student Award at the HCSLA Awards Ceremony, these four students share their proudest NJIT moments, future goals and the lessons they’ll carry into the next chapter.

Gala Krsmanovic, B.S. Cyberpsychology


Written by: Jesse Jenkins

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-place finish among undergraduates in the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) national essay competition, announced fittingly on International Women's Day.

Written by: Jesse Jenkins

We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution.

This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT Mathematics Professor Eliza Michalopoulou’s latest research, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The project aims to improve how scientists explore the vast, uncharted ocean floor through sound.

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