Dr. Masoud Sadjadi, together with Drs. Cristina Palacios, Jean Hannan, and Marcia Varella from the FIU Colleges of Public Health & Social Work, Nursing & Health Sciences, and Medicine, has been awarded $50,000 from the Caplan Foundation and $80,000 from The...
Accomplishments
Student co-founded startup that gives businesses data-driven insights
Eric Azcona, an undergraduate information technology student at FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), is proving that you can pursue your career and study at the same time. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Azcona immigrated to the...
FIU SCIS CPSlab Gets Their Papers Accepted at ACM BuildSys 2020 and ACM IEEE IGSC 2020
FIU SCIS Ph.D. students Qi Li, Yuzhou Feng, and Keyang Yu who are members of FIU SCIS Cyber-Physical Systems Lab (https://cps.cis.fiu.edu/) led by Prof. Dong Chen (https://users.cis.fiu.edu/~dochen/) has recently gotten their SolarTrader, SolarDiagnostics, and...
Got my first job! Working as a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Name: Cesar Villa Garcia Hometown: Lima, Peru Degree/major: Bachelor's in computer science Where are you working? Title? JPMorgan Chase & Co., software engineer How did you get your job? I learned about opportunities at JPMorgan Chase & Co. at an informational...
My virtual internship at Facebook
Name: Azhar Ali Hometown: Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major: Computer Science and Mathematics Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at Facebook as a Facebook University (FBU) Engineering intern. FBU is a freshman/sophomore program...
My virtual internship at Allstate as a software engineer
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 get your...
Got my first job! Working at Microsoft as a program manager
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...
Got my first job! Working at Facebook
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 how they did it. ...
Professors receive NSF grant to develop app to mitigate impact of COVID-19
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...
NIH awards FIU $1M to develop machine-learning algorithms to study proteins – important for understanding, treating diseases
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...