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! Winners: Students Overall Outstanding Graduate...
Accomplishments
Professor receives prestigious IBM Global Academic Award
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...
NSF funded project helps dozens of engineering students pursue careers in STEM
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...
FIU Engineering Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Research Fellowships
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...
FIU receives grant to help increase representation in undergraduate computing
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...
Knight Foundation, FIU to accelerate growth of Miami’s tech ecosystem, name School of Computing and Information Sciences
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 demands of...
Got my first job! Working as a software engineer at Oracle Cloud
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 career fair this fall, and...
SCIS 2020 Awards Recap
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 advantage of any...
John L. Volakis and Naphtali Rishe elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow
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...
CPSLab receives the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys 2020
Dr. Dong Chen and his students at the CPSLab together with Dr. Raju Rangaswami have received the Best Paper Award from ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2020). BuildSys is a highly selective, single-track forum...