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...
Faculty Award
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...
FIU engineers awarded patent to process and find computer data more efficiently
Computer science professor and doctoral student design novel compression technique that allows a reduction in space needed for high-dimensional proteomics data. Fahad Saeed, associate professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences within the College...
Robotics Academy gains national recognition for construction industry virtual and augmented reality training tools
FIU’s Robotics Academy has won a Dynamite Award in the “Incubator” category from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council. Researchers from the College of Communication, Architecture, + The Arts (CARTA) and...
Computing professor designs stream processing system for IoT applications
Recent National Science Foundation CAREER recipient is building a digital architecture to rapidly process data. Smart devices that communicate with other smart devices, known as Internet of Things (IoT) applications, have revolutionized the modern way of life. From...
Geoffrey Smith awarded 2020 ETAPS Test of Time Award
The 2020 ETAPS Test of Time Award went to Geoffrey Smith for his FoSSaCS 2009 paper On the Foundations of Quantitative Information Flow [doi link]. Papers published in any of the constituent ETAPS conferences between 1998 and 2010 were eligible. The...
Researchers receive NSF RAPID award to understand how individuals are socially influenced online during COVID-19
For most people, social media is Instagram selfies, LinkedIn articles and losing yourself in the world of Facebook. For Arif Mohaimin Sadri and M. Hadi Amini, social media means valuable data to analyze the public response to crises like COVID-19. Sadri is an...
FIU team captures top national honors in blockchain competition
Alex Uribe 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...
Dr. Mark A. Finlayson wins Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities
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. ...
Dr. Finlayson has been awarded an IBM Faculty Award
Dr. Mark Finlayson, an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences, has been awarded an IBM Faculty Award in the amount of $40,000. This award is to support his research in artificial intelligence and natural language...










