Congratulations 2013 Spring Senior Project Showcase Winners

Thirty Computer Science graduating seniors presented their team projects to event judges; FIU Alumni and IT industry executives and developers. Alfonso Boza, on the far left describes "Shout" project to an event judge.

Jesse Domack (Shout Project)
Alfonso Boza (Shout Project)
Rigoberto Hernandez (Mobile Clinic Project)

Jesse Domack is the 2013 Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Technology Student of the Year.

Jesse, is a senior computer science student (3.9 GPA) and works as an undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Shu-Ching Chen in the Disaster Information Technologies Research Group. He will be starting full time for State Farm Systems Division at their headquarters in Bloomington, IL in May. Jesse (left) and Tom (right) Domack.

Great News!

FIU was ranked 1st place in the 2012-13 Florida Board of Governor's Information Technology Performance Award.

#1 ranking for percentage of IT related graduates employed in the State of Florida in their first year after graduation.
#1 ranking for percentage of IT related graduates earning certifications.
#1 ranking for industry demand for our students in internships.

For information about internships and fulltime opportunities check out our redesigned CareerPath website.

FIU SCIS Programming Competition

On September 7, 2012, Ultimate Software sponsored the four hour long FIU SCIS Student Programming Competition, where contestants had to design and implement programs that solved advanced algorithmic problems. The event was organized by Kip Irvine, SCIS Senior Instructor, and judged by engineers from Ultimate Software. Prizes were awarded by Greg Miller, Director of Engineering Talent at Ultimate Software.Top Three Winners: 1^stAngel Paredes, 2^ndLeo Shao, 3^rdGreg Basior

Dr. Ram Iyengar and Nulogix wins Florida innovation Award

Dr. Iyengar and Nulogix were awarded third prize in the 2012 Innovation 2 Industry (i2i) Florida competition.
The innovative and patented technology invented by the team enables a person to see changes in intra ocular pressure by observing their eye using a small hand held device.

State Farm Special Award Ceremony at the FIU Discovery Lab

On April 10th, 2012, State Farm awarded FIU's Discovery Lab lead by Dr. Ram Iyengar, SCIS Director and Ryder Professor, a donation of $50,000 to further the lab's mission to inspire student innovation. State Farm has designated FIU as one of 20 Universities in the Nation where they recruit exclusively. This grant award was one of only four such grants awarded in the area of IT Systems this year by State Farm.

FIU Discovery Lab launches to Promote Student Innovation

The Discovery Lab is aimed at developing products for the marketplace. The laboratory provides students with the hands-on experiences they need to solve real-world challenges, develops student-led research opportunities, fosters students’ entrepreneurial skills, and trains a new generation of IT professionals

FIU Cloud Research Recognized by IBM

IBM Research blog features Dr. Naphtali Rishe and the High Performance Database Research Center in “The Payoff from the IBM-Google University Research Cloud”

Dr. Ram Iyengar: selected as a Charter Member of the National Academy of Inventors, 2012 In recognition of support and commitment to advancing technological development and innovation.
Dr. Ram Iyengar: Lifetime Achievement Award Conferred by ISAM, 2012 and Best Computer Science Faculty of 2012, ASDF Conference on Global Awards
Dr. Shu-Ching Chen: elected ACM Distinguished Scientist
Dr. Mark Weiss: elected ACM Distinguished Educator, Elected Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science

Notable Accomplishments

Four consecutive years of external research funding of over $4M.
Second largest Engineering College based CS degree awarding program in the US.
Faculty external funding ratio is one of the best in the state for an academic department.
Many faculty have earned NSF and DOE Career Awards, Research awards from Google, IBM, Xerox, and NetApp.
Faculty recognized with Distinguished Awards such as IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Kaufman Professor, and AAAI Nils Nilsson.
Best Conference Paper Awards from IEEE, ACSAC and other Computer Societies.
Our alumni are faculty at Berkeley and at other large State Universities.
Graduates working at IBM, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Citrix, etc.
Received consecutive IBM PhD Research Fellowship awards (only 40 worldwide).
The only CS program in Florida to receive recognition by the CRA for the 2010 undergraduate research competition.
One of the nations largest Hispanic CS degree awarding programs at all academic levels.

U.S. Department of Defense awards $2.1 million in grants to university

SCIS Asst. Professors Bogdan Carbunar and Ming Zhao have received DoD funding for data protection techniques for mobile devices and resource management of virtualized systems respectively.

SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

Gregory Jean-Baptiste, a recent FIU SCIS Computer Science Bachelors graduate won the Fellowship award which provides an annual stipend and tuition support for up to five years. We congratulate Gregory as he continues his graduate studies with FIU SCIS.

FIU Provides Computer Science Training to High School Educators via Google Grant

On June 13th, The Discovery Lab kicked-off the Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) three-day hands-on workshop to promote computer science and computational thinking in high school curriculum. Topics include Embedded Systems/Robotics, Raspberry Pi, and Python programming.

Strong IT industry ties help land jobs for FIU grads, $3.75 million for university

FIU’s strong relationships with the IT industry have helped the university secure $3.75 million in additional funding from the SUS – recognition of its success in computer science and information technology education.

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