Seminars

Many seminars are offered during the academic year to enrich the intellectual pursuit of our students. National and international reputable scientists, educators, or industry professionals are invited to speak in the computer science colloquia, seminars, or in the lecture series sponsored by a corporation, Computer Science Society, Student Chapter of ACM, or the UPE Honor Society.

Computer Science Department Colloquium

• Mrs. Megan Restuccia (JPMorganChase): Build What’s Next: Turning Ideas into Startups in an Age of AI, Cyber Risk, and Quantum Computing (4/21/2026)


• Mrs. Vaibhavi Tiwari (MyGreen Health): The Invisible Battlefield of Ransomware, Data Breaches, and AI-Powered Attacks (4/9/2025) - Presentation Slides

Dr. Cyril S. Ku is the coordinator for the Computer Science Department Colloquium. Please contact Dr. Ku (KuC@wpunj.edu) for more information regarding the colloquium.

UPS Computer Information Technology Lecture Series (The Lecture Series was made possible by a generous grant from the UPS Foundation of UPS.)

• Dr. Anthony James Scriffignano (Stimson Center): Data Science in the Context of Hyperdisruption: Everything is Changing at the Same Time (4/16/2024) - Presentation Slides


• Dr. Ping Ji (John Jay College of Criminal Justice & CUNY Graduate Center): Digging Down Under the Surface of the Internet (4/12/2023) - Presentation Slides


• Dr. Marc A. Smith (Connected Action Consulting Group & Social Media Research Foundation): Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL (4/6/2022) - Presentation Slides


• Dr. Thomas J. Marlowe (Seton Hall University): The Four Principles of Software Engineering (4/16/2021) - Presentation Slides - Updated Presentation Slides (2024)


• Dr. Edward Chapel (NJEdge): Communicating and Engaging in the Digital Age (4/16/2019) - Presentation Slides


• Mr. Steve Lutinski (Verizon Enterprise Solutions): The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (4/6/2018) - The UPS Computer Information Technology Lecture Series was part of The 4th Annual Cyber Security and Big Data Analytics Symposium program.


• Dr. Steven M. Bellovin (Columbia University): Computers, Society, and the Law (4/6/2017) - Presentation Slides


• Dr. Mung Chiang (Princeton University): SDP: Smart Data Pricing from Theory to Deployment (4/13/2016) - Presentation Slides