Today’s world is loaded with information. For someone with the right computer skills, that data can represent tremendous opportunities to help people. College of Engineering and Computing senior Lara Garcia has a passion for using data to solve problems. She is...
Student Highlight
Student Spotlight: One Computer Science Major’s Whirlwind Journey—Fueled by Opportunity
"Lately, life’s been fast-tracked for Anthony Peña, a student at Florida International University in Miami. The 23-year-old co-created a receipt management app, won first-place honors in local and national demo day competitions, mentored interns at Facebook University...
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...
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...
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...
US Patent granted to FIU SCIS Professor and PhD Student for compression system and algorithm
US Patent (#10,810,180 B1) entitled "Methods and Systems for Compressing Data" has been granted to Fahad Saeed and his PhD student (Muhammad Haseeb). The innovation of the patent lies in the form of a compression system and algorithm that allows massive reduction in...
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...