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My virtual internship at Allstate as a software engineer

  • August 27, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Clubs & organizations,News,Student Highlight

Name: Glenda Gonzalez  Hometown: Miami, FL What is your major: Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned virtually at Allstate as a software engineer within their Allstate Dealer Services (ADS) department. How did you
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Got my first job! Working at Microsoft as a program manager

  • August 21, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Alumni,News,Workshops & webinars

Name: Carolina Uribe-Gosselin Hometown: Miami, FL Degree/major: Bachelor’s in computer science and a minor in psychology Where are you working? Title? Microsoft, program manager How did you get your job? Through UPE’s ShellHacks, I met a Microsoft recruiter and expressed
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Got my first job! Working at Facebook

  • August 10, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Alumni,News

In this series, recent grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know
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Professors receive NSF grant to develop app to mitigate impact of COVID-19

  • May 27, 2020
  • Academics,Accomplishments,Grants & Scholarships,News

The health care system has been impacted significantly due to the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases. A shortage of basic medical supplies, personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical technology has been a major challenge for health care professionals around
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NIH awards FIU $1M to develop machine-learning algorithms to study proteins – important for understanding, treating diseases

  • May 15, 2020
  • Academics,Accomplishments,Grants & Scholarships,News

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded FIU researchers a $1 million grant to design and develop machine-learning algorithms that allow biologists to make sense of proteomics, or the large-scale study of proteins. The study of proteins is critical for understanding
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Computing professor creates dashboard for COVID-19 prediction, visualization

  • May 14, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Highlight

Organizations around the world have created coronavirus-tracking tools to monitor COVID-19 cases through real-time analytics. An FIU professor, who specializes in theoretical optimization and learning algorithms, has created a dashboard that can predict the number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 using data analytics.
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FIU team captures top national honors in blockchain competition

  • April 9, 2020
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Award,News,Student Highlight

Using a unique FIU Business-built blockchain, a multi-disciplinary team of FIU students captured first place in the Association for Information System’s national 2020 AIS Student Chapter Blockchain Challenge. The competition provided the first major opportunity to test PantherChain, a blockchain
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FIU SCIS Lab Gets Their Paper Accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2020

  • February 24, 2020
  • Academics,Accomplishments,Research,Student Highlight

Congratulations to Florida International University SCIS Ph.D. students-Qi Li and Yuzhou Feng, and #FIUSCIS undergraduate research student-Yuyang Leng, members of FIU SCIS CPS Lab led by Profesor Dong Chen for recently made their SolarFinder paper accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2020
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Senior Project Showcase Recap

  • December 18, 2019
  • Accomplishments,Campus Life,Education,Student Highlight

In Fall 2019, 66 senior computer science students worked on 33 exciting projects ranging from academic research projects to real industrial apps. View all of the Fall 2019 SCIS Senior Projects here: https://seniorproject.cis.fiu.edu/semester/2019-fall/ Photo Gallery

SCIS Award Ceremony 2019 recap

  • December 11, 2019
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Highlight,Student Highlight

This has been a very remarkable year for all of us in the School of Computing and Information Sciences in terms of making an impact on Florida International University (FIU) and the College of Engineering and Computing. We attracted outstanding
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Dr. Mark A. Finlayson wins Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities

  • October 21, 2019
  • Accomplishments,Faculty Award,Faculty Highlight

Recently, Dr. Mark A. Finlayson won the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities. This award recognizes excellence in scholarly achievement or artistic/literary accomplishment. Six awards will be given, each award carries a $5,000 stipend.  Read more about
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Computer Science Ranked 39th in latest NSF HERD Survey

  • January 27, 2017
  • Accomplishments

In a memo to the University on Nov. 29th, Provost Kenneth Furton and VP Andres Gil announced that “For the first time, we have reached top 100 ranking in five STEM categories (a BOG Preeminence criterion), with Computer Science ranked
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