The girls visited the Discovery Lab the High Performance Database Research Center. During the workshop, the girls learned how to utilize the Terrafly API to build their own web-based geolocation mapping app using JavaScript. Read more...
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CIS Students and Faculty have Been Selected for the Best Paper Award
Kianoosh G Boroojenia, Shekoufeh Mokhtaria, and S. S. Lyengar have been selected for the Best Paper Award for the Eighth International Conference on Communication Networks. They will be receiving the award on July 26 2014 at Hotel Capitol for...
FIU SCIS Hosted a Panel Discussion with the contribution of eight panelists from five distinguished universities across the US
On June 3rd, 2014, the School of Computing and Information Sciences and the FIU College of Medicine co-hosted a distinguished panel discussion in Computational Medicine entitled “Emerging Technologies, Computational Sciences, and Cancer Therapeutics...
FIU SCIS is pleased to announce our newest faculty pictured left to right: Mark Finlayson, PhD MIT 2012; Ruogu Fang, PhD Cornell, 2014; Leonardo Bobadilla, PhD UIUC, 2013.
Arriving in Aug. 2014 Ruogu Fang, PhD, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. She received the B.S. degree (highest honors) in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2009. Her research is on the interface of health informatics,...
Yiqi Xu is Awarded One of Four VMWare Graduate Fellowships for the 2014-2015 Academic Year.
Yiqi Xu’s research focus is in the resource management of big-data systems, including parallel and distributed storage systems. His projects include vPFS, a framework that supports diverse plugins to achieve different types of Quality of Service (QoS) for parallel...
DOT funds $11.4 million UniversityCity proposal
SCIS Professor Naphtali Rishe and NSF/CAKE team will deploy an innovative Intelligent Transportation System to assist students, university staff, and community members to move efficiently to and through the FIU campus. Read more...
FIU's Iyengar inducted as a Fellow by National Academy of Inventors
Distinguished Ryder Professor S.S. Iyengar has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. The director of FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences is widely recognized as one of the principal pioneers in sensor...
Karl Morris CS PhD Candidate "Best in Show" Miami's Got Tech 2014
Miami's Got Tech!, the third annual Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce event that highlights emerging entrepreneurs and collegiate innovation, attracted a record crowd to Venture Hive in downtown Miami Thursday night. Along with networking, eight teams...
Miami Herald: Discovery Lab's Telebot Featured at Miami Maker Faire
Anthony Martelly, 9, could hardly contain his excitement as he and his mom, Amorette Speaks, waited for a demonstration of “Hutch,” Florida International University’s 6-foot tall “telebot,” who gave a show every hour. Steve Luis, a...
U.S. Department of Defense awards $2.1 million in grants to university
SCIS Asst. Professors Bogdan Carbunar and Ming Zhao have received DoD funding for data protection techniques for mobile devices and resource management of virtualized systems respectively. SCIS Asst. Professors Bogdan Carbunar and Ming Zhao have received DoD...