Facebook, Merck, Brown University, the University of Minnesota, Venture for America and the U.S. Air Force are among the destinations of standouts from the Class of 2021 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at seven graduates.
Ying Wu College of Computing
Music lovers know that there is nothing like a live performance, but the COVID-19 pandemic inspired Newark's New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to challenge Ying Wu College of Computing faculty and students to investigate better ways to present virtual concerts using mixed-reality technology.
It's not your typical five-day forecast, as researchers with the Institute for Future Technologies, a joint venture of NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, are improving solar weather prediction by adding data visualization techniques to their existing artificial intelligence methods.
Just about everyone in college has a Facebook account, uses their Instagram service, or knows someone who does, but Ying Wu College of Computing new graduate Catarina DeMatos is going to work there.
DeMatos, of Chatham, first interned at Facebook as a rising junior in summer 2019, so she had an inroad to becoming an employee upon graduation this month with a B.S. in computer science.
A computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned the top prize in a statewide collegiate competition that judges pitches for innovative business ideas.
The student, Yashwee Kothari ’22, pitched a mobile application for tracking the symptoms of people recovering from traumatic brain injuries – an idea she has been developing since high school.
Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property.
Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while human controllers are located someplace safe. But if the drones could get a dose of autonomy, through the clever use of artificial intelligence software, then their usefulness could be interactive rather than only serving as flying cameras and heat sensors.
After a year layoff, one of NJIT’s standout annual research events returned to the campus community this month — more than 30 of the university’s top student-researchers took to their webcams to present their work for a virtual audience at the 2021 Dana Knox Research Showcase, "A Glimpse Into the Future.”
New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree earned in high school, promptly declaring a double major and then adding a third in 2019 because he didn't want to graduate too soon.
Applications to study at Ying Wu College of Computing increased by 50% in the last two years.
The college received 2,979 applicants this year which is also an increase of 19% from 2020. Computer science, human-computer interaction and web/information systems also experienced large increases as individual majors.
There were 43% more applications requesting Albert Dorman Honors College status since 2019.
For the second straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has broken its record for first-year student applications with a total of more than 11,250. All five of NJIT’s academic colleges experienced increases, led by a 21% jump from the Martin Tuchman School of Management, which eclipsed 1,000 applicants for the first time.
