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Congratulations to Prof. Mark Finlayson on receiving an NEH grant

  • January 12, 2023
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Highlight,Grants & Scholarships

A message from KFSCIS Director, Dr. Jason Liu: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has just announced $28.1M for 204 Humanities Projects nationwide. It is a highly competitive program. I’m happy to announce that Mark Finalson is Co-PI of a
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Computer Science program ascending in national and world rankings

  • September 14, 2022
  • Accomplishments,Explore

Twelve FIU programs were ranked in the top 50 in their category among public universities in the U.S., according to the 2022 QS World University Rankings. Among these was the Computer Science program ascending in national and world rankings. Read more
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Alumnus earns national award for work in blockchain, game theory in cyber security

  • January 26, 2022
  • Accomplishments,Alumni

Charles Kamhoua M.S. ’08, Ph.D. ’11, an alumnus from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, recently won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE-USA) Harry Diamond Memorial Award. The honor recognizes U.S. government individuals “for contribution and leadership
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KFSCIS Fall 2021 Awards Ceremony

  • December 15, 2021
  • Academics,Accomplishments,Research

As the year and the semester come to an end, we held our Annual Awards Ceremony last Thursday to celebrate and honor the hard work of our faculty and staff. Check out the awardees that have been recognize this year!
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Professor receives prestigious IBM Global Academic Award

  • May 14, 2021
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Award,Faculty Highlight,Grants & Scholarships,In The News,News,Research

Naphtali Rishe, professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, is the recipient of the 2021 IBM Global University Program Academic Award. The award is a recognition of Rishe’s ongoing research in Geospatial Data Analytics for Ecological Observations. Rishe also was recently elected
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NSF funded project helps dozens of engineering students pursue careers in STEM

  • May 13, 2021
  • Academics,Accomplishments,Campus Life,Career development,Clubs & organizations,Community,Education,Grants & Scholarships,News

In its fifth year, the NSF-awarded Florida IT Pathways to Success project (Flit-Path) has provided 127 scholarships to FIU students in computer science, information technology and computer engineering. Ninety of these students have graduated and are working in the STEM
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FIU Engineering Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Research Fellowships

  • April 28, 2021
  • Accomplishments,Career development,Course Highlight,Grants & Scholarships,News,Research,Student Highlight

Two FIU KFSCIS engineering graduate students are recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSFGRF), a distinction shared by numerous Nobel Prize winners, government and public policy leaders, and private industry trailblazers, and awarded from a pool of
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FIU receives grant to help increase representation in undergraduate computing

  • April 28, 2021
  • Accomplishments,Annoucement,Faculty Highlight,Grants & Scholarships,News

The “Best Practice” grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University will allow the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences to work toward making all students feel included while learning computing. FIU has received a “Best Practice,” $625,000
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Knight Foundation, FIU to accelerate growth of Miami’s tech ecosystem, name School of Computing and Information Sciences

  • February 24, 2021
  • Accomplishments,Annoucement,Community,In The News,News

Building on South Florida’s momentum around technology and entrepreneurship, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a $10 million gift to FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences to develop technical talent at scale to meet the
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Got my first job! Working as a software engineer at Oracle Cloud

  • January 11, 2021
  • Accomplishments,Grants & Scholarships,News,Student Highlight

Name: Calvin Mark Hometown: Miami, FL Degree/major: Bachelor of Science in computer science with a minor in physics Where are you working? Title? Oracle/Oracle Cloud, software engineer How did you get your job?  I met a recruiter at the FIU
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SCIS 2020 Awards Recap

  • December 18, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Course Highlight,Faculty Award,Faculty Highlight,News,Research,Student Highlight

The School of Computing and Information Sciences held their SCIS Annual Awards Presentation, honoring the best of the best in the School, the College and Florida International University. Since we could not be together physically, we want you to take
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John L. Volakis and Naphtali Rishe elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow

  • December 9, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Annoucement,Faculty Award,Faculty Highlight,News

John L. Volakis, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Naphtali Rishe, professor of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, have been elected to the highly distinguished rank of National Academy
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