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Omer Hocaoglu - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2026

Monday, November 2nd, 2026
Omer is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering through the ITU-NJIT Dual Degree Program and began his doctoral studies in Fall 2025. His researc...

NJIT Partners on New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative to Drive Statewide Innovation

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill was joined today by a contingent of representatives from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative (NJSCI), a groundbreaking public-private partnership that will drive the next generation of research, innova...

Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 and Daniel Vargas ’15 Named to ‘Latinos 40 Under 40’

Friday, October 16th, 2026
NJIT alumni Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 and Daniel Vargas ’15 have been named to Negocios Now’s NYC Tri-State Latinos 40 Under 40 Class of 2026, joining a group of emerging Latino leaders making an impact across the region. Both serve as co-chairs of NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC)...

Gary Lauterbach ’78 Never Stopped Tinkering, His Gift Helps NJIT Students Do the Same

Friday, October 9th, 2026
The first computers Gary Lauterbach encountered were not in a classroom. As a teenager in Livingston, New Jersey, he spent Wednesday evenings at Bell Laboratories in Whippany with a Boy Scout Explorer post. The Bell Labs employee supervising the group was unusually permissive. Lauterbach and his fri...

NJIT Celebrates Alumni Achievement and Teaching Excellence at Homecoming Celebration

Monday, October 5th, 2026
From developing water purification technologies and advanced computer systems to strengthening public health and educating future leaders, this year’s NJIT award recipients have built careers solving complex problems and creating opportunities for others. The university will celebrate their accompli...

Shilpa Mukhopadhyay - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2026

Monday, October 5th, 2026
Shilpa Mukhopadhyay is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NJIT, where she is pursuing her doctoral studies under the guidance of Dr. Arnob Ghosh. Her research interests focus on developing safe and robust reinforcement learning (RL) agents, with an em...

Finding Signals, Ignoring Noise: NJIT PhD Grad Helps AI Detect Hate Speech

Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Count from one up to fifty. Simple, right? Now try that while watching a video about the history of math and listening to a song about multiplication, as ten nearby people shout random numbers. Not so easy, is it? When you're surrounded by distractions, focusing on one task can be a challenge — for...

NJIT Hosts International High School Robotics Tournament, Sending Three to World Champs

Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
High school robotics teams from Vancouver, B.C., Irvine, Calif. and Flushing, N.Y. won the 2026 Highlander Summit at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Wellness and Events Center this fall. The summit is a major competition on the Vex Robotics circuit, with the winners besting 94 others to advance...

NJIT Students’ Plan to Power the Moon with Swarm Robots Wins NASA Prize

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
NASA wants to establish sustained human presence on the lunar surface, but Houston has a problem — keeping the lights on when night falls on the Moon. The lunar South Pole, where NASA announced plans in March to build humanity’s first long-term Moon base, sees two weeks of total darkness at a time, ...

Tanima Bal - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2026

Monday, August 31st, 2026
Tanima Bal is a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where she has been pursuing her doctoral studies since January 2025 under the guidance of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research interests include power-system monitoring, machine-learning applications in power systems, and soft...