This edition is dedicated to students
This edition is dedicated to students


April Newsletter

From Regional Champions to Nationals: NJIT Dominates at the 2025 NCAE Cyber Games

The NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club (NICC) scored a triple crown at the 2025 NCAE Cyber Games, winning first place in the regionals, third place nationally, and becoming the highest-ranked school in the Northeast Region against some of the top institutions across the U.S. 

Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

Reza Curtmola and researchers from New York University have developed new open-source software called Gittuf, which is being implemented as part of a pilot project with Bloomberg, a global information resource to the financial industry. Gittuf distributes responsibility for a code repository's policies and administration, so that no one person is trusted unilaterally.

NJIT Students Shine at Bank of America Code-a-Thon with Innovative Peer Exchange Platform

Four SHPE students made an impression that resonated beyond the competition floor at the 2nd Annual Bank of America Code-a-Thon in Charlotte, NC. 

JerseyCTF 2025 Was (A Lot) More Than Fun and Games

The NJIT JerseyCTF competition is now in its fifth year and has continued to draw competitors on-campus and around the world in a quest to hack their way through a series of information security style puzzles to “capture the flag” and win an impressive array of prizes. Beyond friendly competition, the event is a masterclass in experiential learning. 

NJIT Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli Shares Expert Insights at AARP's Newark Fraud Summit

Fuad Hamidli was a featured speaker and panelist at AARP Newark Fraud Summit: Fraud 360. The summit brought together leading voices from cybersecurity, law enforcement and fraud investigation.

An Alarm Clock that Hides From You is Highlight of MakeNJIT Competition

A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon, which incorporated the collaborative talents of five students in computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.  

In the Media

NJIT Hosted ‘HamSCI’s Big Year’ Gets Attention from NASA

Thank you to Ryan Tolboom, university lecturer in the Department of Informatics, for leading the discussion on Solar Eclipses as part of the 2025 HamSCI Workshop, hosted by NJIT and supported by NASA, NSF and the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation.

In Brief

Ananya Raghunath Wins First Place at 2025 Spring Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum

Congratulations to YWCC student and Dorman Honors Scholar Ananya Raghunath for achieving first place at the 2025 Spring Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum. Her award-winning research on detecting and preventing jailbreaking in Large Language Models was conducted in NJIT's AI4SG Lab under the guidance of Associate Professor Hai Phan in the Department of Data Science.

NJIT Open House Attracts Capacity Attendance for YWCC

The NJIT Open House brought a ballroom full of inquisitive high school minds and parents who are considering YWCC as part of their future. Some of our top students and faculty had much to say about why what we offer is a touch above the expected. 

Accepted Students Attend College Day

College Day welcomed accepted students who have their eye on YWCC at NJIT to embark on their future journey during fall 2025. We gave them a taste of what's to come, with demonstrations by current students who are innovating everything from platforms to find vital resources in an AI second to safer, secure ways to protect our everyday data. We added some gaming and VR based projects, just to show that they, too, have the power to advance everything from healthcare to transportation, and beyond. Our hands-on, practice-based experience is one you can dive into from day one. Nothing is off limits or requires waiting until a future year. Conduct research with top faculty, create a start-up, or invent something that can alter the future. NJIT is your oyster – and its pearls of wisdom are open from the moment you step on campus.

NJIT WiCS Attends Panel Discussion at Audible

Twenty WiCS (Women in Computing Society) students attended a panel discussion hosted by Newark neighbor, Audible, and several of its women employees. The panel shared stories of their professional journeys and invited students to network with recruiters and other Amazon employees. The event was held at the Audible Innovation Cathedral.

Mark Cartwright and Akshay Rangamani Present Two Papers at IEEE ICASSP in Hyderabad, India

Assistant Professors Mark Cartwright and Akshay Rangamani and Ph.D. candidate Sripathi Sridhar (whom Cartwright advises) attended the IEEE ICASSP (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) in Hyderabad, India to present two papers by Rangamani and Sridhar 

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