Childhood friends from Bergen County — two seniors and an alumnus — are jointly forming a startup company, MechSense Labs, to apply what they’ve learned at New Jersey Institute of Technology in designing emergency rescue equipment.

MechSense’s first invention is a robotic rover called NodeRover, employing artificial intelligence to make its own decisions and ad-hoc wireless mesh networking to stay in touch, especially in dangerous situations or hard-to-reach locations that are too risky for human responders.

A dose of artificial intelligence is helping New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers make sense of how crowds and the individuals within them move around, leading to insights with applications in fields such as emergency management, pedestrian traffic planning, robotics, special effects and even videogames.

Tomer Weiss, assistant professor of Informatics in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, leads the research with graduate students to see if AI can complement their understanding of the movement patterns in useful ways.

Faculty and student research from NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing abounded at Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, with faculty and dozens of students presenting their timely work.

A trend was the emphasis on unique ways in which AI works — what we collectively understand, what we don’t and what remains mysterious.

Senjuti Basu Roy, associate professor of computer science, along with her doctoral student Subhodeep Ghosh discussed two approaches to mitigating bias in large language models.

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. 

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. 

Research on how large language models portray aging, conducted entirely by undergraduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing, was published and accepted to ACM ASSETS, a top venue for computing and accessibility, with recent alumna Sherwin Dewan ’25 (Human-Computer Interaction) as lead author. She credits the opportunity to explore the boundaries beyond her intended major while at NJIT for developing the interest in data analytics that ultimately led to her becoming a first-time published principal investigator. 

New research shows that AI-enhanced augmented reality, when used for supporting computational thinking skills in K-12 education, can be more effective than simply letting children passively consume content built on the same technologies.

“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.

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.