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Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Ranked #9 in Nation

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.   NJIT's top-ten result in the U.S. section of the global ranking is a point of pri...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

Milad Shojaee - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2022

Monday, November 7th, 2022
Milad Shojaee is a PhD candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT. He is currently working at Networked Controls and Intelligent Diagnostics (NCID) Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Mohsen Azizi. His research interests include de...

Shuai Zhang - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2022

Monday, October 10th, 2022
Shuai Zhang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT in 2022. Currently, he is working as a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His research interests include 6G wireless communi...

Students Will Design Hacking Apps, Hardware Exploits to Gain Experience

Thursday, October 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom. One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computin...

Xueyu Hou - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2022

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Xueyu Hou a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at NJIT, advised by Dr. Tao Han. Her research interests include deep Learning acceleration in mobile and edge computing, security of machine learning, distributed machine learning on edge, mixed reality, and live volumetric streaming. Bef...

NJIT Research on Nanoporous Materials Would Make Electronics Stronger, Safer

Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Scientists at NJIT and in Germany are working to understand how ions congregate around nanoporous materials, which could lead to safety and reliability improvements for electronic components such as supercapacitors and microscopically tiny actuators. Nanoscale porous materials are used in everyday ...

Ph.D. Student's Research Can Reduce Wind Turbine Costs by $15M Annually

Thursday, August 18th, 2022
NJIT student Akhyurna Swain has a plan to save $15 million per year in the maintenance and operational costs of New Jersey's offshore wind turbines. Swain, studying for her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, determined that non-intrusive monitoring technology controlled by magnets can be paired with ...

Akhyurna Swain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2022

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Akhyurna Swain is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently, she works in the Sensor Research laboratory under the advisory of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research area focuses on the development and ...

Yang Deng - ECE PhD Student of the Month - July 2022

Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
Yang Deng is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Tao Han at UNICS Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Prior to NJIT,  he was a research assistant at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include 5G/6G network resource management, edge computing, blockchain, and machin...