Four YWCC Data Science Faculty Present at Prestigious NeurlPS 2025

Yingcong Li, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Lingxiao Wang and Shuai Zhang had the honor of presenting their research papers at the 2025 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS), one of three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research. 

US News Ranks Online Programs at NJIT Among Nation's Best

Online education programs at NJIT rank among the top 100 in the country, according to the U.S. News & World Report. NJIT earned high marks across degree-granting programs in business, engineering and information technology. 

NJIT AI Researcher Makes Small Language Models Accessible

While ordinary people around the world are waking up to large language models on the cloud, Yingcong Li and her research team want you to know about the power of small models on your own hardware.

An S-STEM Alumnus Who Did It on His Own – With the Right Support

Thanks to the S-STEM scholarship program and other forms of support Rafael Abreu ‘25 received while at NJIT, he was able to transform his ideas and ingenuity into a new — and better — reality. 

Hai Phan and Cristian Borcea, together with their teams, are pioneering the development and launch of NeuralCrypto — the world’s first secure human–AI and API communication platform featuring true end-to-end encryption: Only you are privy to your prompts and responses — ensuring unmatched privacy, security, and compliance.  https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16354   

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Second-Year Ph.D. Student Presents at AAAI 2026

Congratulations to Professor Grace Wang's second-year Ph.D. student Jiayi Chen for presenting his research paper, "MARS: A Meta-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning Framework for Risk-Aware Multi-Agent Portfolio Management," at AAAI 2026, the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Wang also published two papers at the conference, including a joint work with Associate Professor Jing Li. 

Chen is pictured here with CMU Professor and current President of AAAI Steve Smith.

Fadi Deek and Yehoshua Perl are co-authors on "Fine-Tuning LLaMA2 for Summarizing Discharge Notes: Evaluating the Role of Highlighted Information," which was published in BDCC as part of the  Special Issue: Advances in Large Language Models for Biological and Medical Applications.

Students Attend Supercomputing Asia 2026 in Japan

We are proud of our students Abdullah Imran and Garrett Gonzalez-Rivas for their stellar representation of NJIT's work with High Performance Computing at Supercomputing Asia 2026 in Japan. They attended at the invitation of GIGABYTE.

NJIT is part of a landmark partnership between the State of New Jersey and NVIDIA AI. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the historic agreement during his final press conference, which establishes a statewide AI supercomputer and secures New Jersey's position as a global hub for technological innovation. NJIT Students and faculty will have unprecedented access to NVIDIA's state-of-the-art generative AI resources, giving the Garden State an edge in accelerating breakthroughs that will extend far beyond its borders.

Distinguished Professor David Bader Interviews in January:

The Big Wrinkle in the Multimillion-Dollar AI Buildout – CNN Business

We Could Hit a Wall: Why Trillions of Dollars of Risk is No Guarantee of AI Reward – The Guardian

Elon Musk’s Bold New Plan to Put AI in Orbit Isn’t as Crazy As it Sounds – CNN Business