Dr. Xuyu Wang, Assistant Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS) is the PI of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) award, entitled “Collaborative Research: IMR: MM-1A: Functional Data Analysis-aided Learning Methods...
Faculty Highlight
New DHS Center at KFSCIS: ADMIRE
Professor Hadi Amini is leading a team, including Drs. Jason Liu, Stephanie Lunn, Ruimin Sun, Cuong Nguyen, Gregory Reis, and Leonardo Bobadilla, for a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center. The ADvanced Education and Research for Machine...
Dr. S.S. Iyengar elevated with honorary degree in Poland
Distinguished University Professor Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar last month received an honorary doctorate of science from Poznan University of Technology in Poland. In a grand ceremony, Iyengar saw his name installed on a list of recipients from past decades and then...
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Clarke and his team on receiving a new $2M NSF award
The team led by KFSCIS's Dr. Peter Clarke has received a new National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Computing in Undergraduate Education - Transformation (NSF IUSE: CUE-T) grant. The project, entitled "Collaborative Research: CUE-T:...
Dr. M. Hadi Amini’s SOLID Lab is off to a Solid Start
Since joining KFSCIS in 2019, Dr. M. Hadi Amini founded the Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning for Interdependent Networks Laboratory (SOLID Lab) with a focus on creating efficient, secure machine learning and optimization algorithms. These algorithms are...
Professor Hadi Amini represents KFSCIS at World Happiness Fest 2023
Our CEC faculty at Florida International University recently shared their insights on how engineering and computer science can make our world a happier place at the World Happiness Fest.Among them, our own representative from KFSCIS, Dr. Hadi Amini, shared his...
Naphtali Rishe to lead new Florida Department of Environmental Protection Subproject
Prof. Naphtali Rishe, together with Profs. Daniel Gann (Biology) and Piero Gardinali (Chemistry), will be leading a subproject of a new Florida Department of Environmental Protection award led by Prof. James Fourqurean at the Institute of Environment. The award,...
Congratulations to Prof. Mohammadhadi Amini and his team for a $1.5M award from USDOT UTC program
The US Department of Transportation has announced the funding of its new National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR). This award, made under the USDOT's University Transportation Center (UTC) program, is expected to total $4 million per...
KFSCIS’s Dr. Gregory Reis and Dr. Leonardo Bobadilla are part of FDEP Grant
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) awarded a $999,581 grant award entitled, "Development of next-generation autonomous sensing platforms for water quality monitoring and HAB detection" to FIU. The award will be led by Dr. Kevin Boswell of the...
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Finlayson on receiving an NEH grant
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 new $150,000 grant...







