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Qi Kang - ECE PhD Student of the Month - January 2022

Monday, January 31st, 2022
Qi Kang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His advisor is Professor Mengchu Zhou and his Co-advisor is Professor Mesut Sahin from Biomedical department. His research is about Neura...

US News and World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs Top 100 Nationally, Top 3 Statewide

Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Three of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, and in the top three for New Jersey institutions. More colleges and universities than ever before began offering distance learning options in response to ...

Dina Ayman, NJIT Alum and Professor, Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Tech

Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Her 20s have been a busy time for Dina Ayman: earning two degrees at NJIT in the same year, working at Intel and Microsoft, teaching at her alma mater and starting a consultancy dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Along the way, she achieved her dream of working at the intersection of engineering...

Ishani Chatterjee - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2021

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Ishani Chatterjee successfully defended her dissertation defense on December 1, 2021. She worked under the guidance of Professor Mengchu Zhou, Distinguished Professor. Her research is in Natural Language Processing, Big Data, Optimization Models, and Data Analytics. Her research topic dire...

Mohammad Arif Hossain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2021

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Mohammad Arif Hossain is a Ph.D. candidate at the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is currently working under the supervision of Distinguished Professor, Dr. Nirwan Ansari. His research areas include Clo...

Student Wins Scholarship for Helping Reduce Electron Leakage in Blue LEDs

Thursday, October 28th, 2021
Andressa Marangon, a senior electrical and computer engineering major at New Jersey Institute of Technology, won a $1,000 scholarship from the IEEE Electron Devices Society for her role in improving the brightness and power consumption of blue LEDs that technologically lag behind their red and green...

Ludvik Alkhoury - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2021

Monday, October 18th, 2021
Ludvik Alkhoury is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Alkhoury works under the advisement of Professor Moshe Kam, Dean of Newark College of Engineering, in signal and image ...

New Methods Can Protect Data Privacy Against Quantum Computing

Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
NJIT Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Joerg Kliewer is looking to help preserve privacy by busting conventional wisdom about the future of computer security, which states that today's data protection measures, especially in Internet-of-things devices, stand absolutely no chance against ...

An Engineer and an Architectural Historian Win the 2021 Excellence in Research Awards

Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Nirwan Ansari, an electrical and computer engineer who is a pioneer in the field of communications networks, and Gabrielle Esperdy, an architectural historian and trailblazer in the digital humanities, are the winners of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research award for 2021. Atam Dhawan, sen...

NJIT's Dhawan Wins a Coveted IEEE Award for a Widely Used Cancer Detection Device

Friday, September 17th, 2021
For a pioneering invention that enables doctors to use light to look beneath the outer layer of the skin to detect diseases such as early-stage skin cancers, NJIT’s Atam Dhawan was tapped this year to receive one of IEEE’s preeminent honors, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Willia...