Distinguished Professor David Bader and NJIT’s Institute for Data Science principal research scientist Dr. Zhihui Du led high school student interns from Edison Academy Magnet School through the challenge of analyzing the complex network of neurons in the brains of fruit flies using massive, interconnected graphs at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge. Their use of the well-known greedy method helped them achieve a score of 35,231,406 – well above the 29 million base line.
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected seven high-caliber students to join the fall 2024 cohort of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program (SFS).
Members of NJIT’s WiCs (Women in Computing Society) and GWiCS (Graduate Women in Computing Society) and their advisor, Professor Jim Geller, recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2024 in Philadelphia and were honored to be accompanied by NJIT Provost and Senior Vice President John Pelesko. This year’s conference was devoted to various AI-related topics, with particular attention to issues related to gender bias.
Expert panelists, including David Bader, director of the Institute for Data Science; Grace Wang, director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research; and Mengjia Xu, assistant professor of data science, took a measured tone about the trends, challenges and ethics of artificial intelligence at a campus forum organized by NJIT’s Institute for Data Science this month.
Angel Cazares, an S-STEM scholar and president of the Hispanic and Latin Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT, has been awarded the distinguished 2024 eBay HSI Battle of the Brains Scholarship.
“GPU-as-a-service has significantly leveled the playing field in A.I. and high-performance computing. Instead of making substantial upfront investments in hardware that quickly depreciates and becomes obsolete, companies can now access GPU power on-demand.”
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Prof. Cristian Borcea and Ph.D. Candidate Pritam Sen Present at ECAI 2024
Ph.D. candidate Pritam Sen accompanied Prof. Cristian Borcea to the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where they presented their paper on FedMTL: Privacy-Preserving Federated Multi-Task Learning: The conference is considered among the top in the field of AI.
NJIT ACM Leads HackNJIT 2024 in Style
NJIT Association of Computing Machinery welcomed over 300 attendees, 55 team projects, and generous corporate sponsors to their annual 24 hr. soiree of healthy competition, networking, workshops, and prizes of distinction. Thank you to Star Micronics, ISACA New Jersey Chapter, Merck, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hyperswitch and Github! Well done, indeed.
YWCC Students Score First Place at BSides NYC Pros v Joes
Congratulations to Al Simpson, a CyberCorps Scholarship for Service student, who captained his team, which included fellow NJIT student Mahmoud Ezat, to FIRST PLACE at the BSides NYC Pros v Joes competition. The event involves security, hacking and privacy challenges between Joes (students and professionals) and experts in the field. Simpson's Sha0l1n-Shadow-Stealers team managed to stand up their networks, defend them, and attack other networks to victory.
