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GirlHacks Winner Aims to Help Students with Hearing Loss

Friday, November 8th, 2019
Anupriya Gotkhindi was listening to a lecture in her machine learning graduate class when she noticed a sign language translator having difficulty trying to decipher the complex issues being taught and the technical terms used by the instructor. That problem was the inspiration for her team’s proje...

This First-Gen College Student Is Becoming a Leader and Making an Impact

Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Kamela Chandrika, a soft-spoken third-year biomedical engineering major, remembers some of the challenges she faced during her first days at NJIT — like going to the Bursar’s Office to pay her tuition bill, but not knowing how to fill out a check. Even before arriving at the university she faced sc...

Tech Treatment: NJIT Re-engineering Team Helps Local Emergency Department

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades. Among other notable rankings, the acute-care teaching hospital has received 16 A ratings in a row from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, and is one of less than 41 hospitals in the country to achieve this consis...

An NJIT Engineer Proposes a New Model for the Way Humans Localize Sounds

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group members. In modern times, finding a lost cell phone by usin...

Security Expert On Guard For NJIT Networks, Prepares Users For Digital Wilds

Friday, October 18th, 2019
Five monitors adorn George Eliopoulos' desk — he tried six and said it was too many — where the security analyst is responsible for protecting NJIT computer systems from malicious hackers. Eliopoulos earned a master of science degree in computer security here and started his current role in the Inf...

NJIT VentureLink Inventors Fortify Weak Links in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Friday, October 18th, 2019
The surge in mail-order drug deliveries, amid rising temperatures and climate volatility, presents a growing challenge to the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Every time vaccine is subject to excessive heat or cold, for example, its potency may be diminished, according to the Centers for...

NJIT Develops New Computer Memory Control to Speed Up Cloud Servers

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
Virtual machines are an important kind of software, invented in the 1960s but only popular since the 2000s, that enables servers to run several operating systems simultaneously — but lately they're facing an efficiency problem that NJIT professor Xiaoning Ding believes he can address. The majority ...

NJIT Collaboration with Facebook Boosts Opportunities for Students

Monday, October 14th, 2019
Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018.  She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. Friedmann was teaching th...

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding...

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

Friday, October 4th, 2019
MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award. Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and comp...