Ying Wu College of Computing is Honored to Announce Six New Faculty for 2025-2026

Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) proudly welcomes six recently appointed assistant professors to the departments of Computer Science and Data Science for the 2025-2026 academic year. 

YWCC Secure Database Management Researchers Publish Secure Document Storage Solutions in VLDB 2025

Assistant Professor Shantanu Sharma and Ph.D. student Komal Kumar have devised a solution to secure document systems beyond standard encryption. The research has been published in VLDB Conference (Very Large Data Bases), a premier forum for data management, scalable data science, and database researchers.

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science) will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s national Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an already impressive list of achievements when they graduate in May.

YWCC Student–Faculty Team Wins Best Presentation Award for Ant Swarm Simulation

Assistant Professor Tomer Weiss and Matthew Loges ‘25 earned a best presentation award for their research paper titled “Simulating Ant Swarm Aggregations Dynamics" at the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium for Computer Animation (SCA), and a qualifying poster nomination for the undergraduate research competition at the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH conference.

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own.

NJIT Distinguished Cybersecurity Expert is a Panelist at AARP New Jersey 2025 Fraud Summit

Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science participated as a panelist at AARP New Jersey’s 2025 Fraud Summit: Decoding Fraud in the Age of AI. He previously spoke at the AARP Fraud Summit: Fraud 360 – Awareness, Prevention & Recovery in spring 2025

Suresh Kumar Appointed to NJ-India Media Commission

YWCC congratulates Suresh Kumar, senior university lecturer and director of entrepreneurial programs, on his appointment by Governor Phil Murphy to the NJ-India Commission effective immediately in recognition of his work as president of TiE-NJ. Tie-NJ is one of the leading organizations promoting trade and talent flows between India and NJ.