When I started at Florida International University in Fall 2017, moving from India, I didn’t even know what Homecoming was. I learned that Homecoming celebrated the spirit of FIU by inviting alumni and organizing various festivities throughout the week for current...
Student Highlight
ShellHacks 2019 Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZO8Kh9Cl3g Thirty-six hours of no sleep, plenty of coffee and a will to do good, that’s the idea behind ShellHacks, the largest hackathon in Florida held at FIU’s Graham Center. The hackathon, a sprint-like event where...
My internship at Microsoft as an engineer, program manager
During the summer of 2019, Catherine Angelini interned at Microsoft at its corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. During her internship, she worked as a program manager and software engineer with the information protection team of Office 365 Security and...
SCIS Ph.D. Student Received a Highly Competitive Travel Grant to Attend Workshops at 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019)
Sunanda Guha, a first-year Ph.D. student at School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), College of Engineering and Computing has been awarded the prestigious travel grant to attend Device-free Human Sensing Workshop at the 6th ACM International Conference on...
SCIS Student internship at Tesla
Carolina Uribe-Gosselin, a computer science student from Miami, Florida, interned at Tesla. During her internship, she worked as a technical program manager for the Packaging Engineering Team in Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in Reno, Nevada. I specifically managed packaging...
My internship as a software engineer at GoDaddy
Tommy Carrascal, a computer science student from Miami, Florida, interned at GoDaddy during the Summer. During his internship, he worked as a Software Engineer where he developed web applications and tools used by other developers at the company. Tommy was able to use...
Two SCIS Student honored for FIU’s World Ahead
Samira Pouyanfar | Ph.D. in Computer Science Julian Alarcon | B.S. in Information Technology The Florida International University (FIU), College of Engineering and of Computing (CEC) will have its Summer 2019 Commencement Ceremony on July 29th at the Ocean Bank...
Luis Irizarry of Squadflick
Original published date: February 21st, 2019 FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences alumni, Luis Irizarry, moved to Miami, Fl in 2007 from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He graduated in the Fall of 2013 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science....
FIU’s ACM Student Chapter has been recognized for Outstanding Chapter Activities
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida is the winners of the 2018-2019 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards in Chapter Activities. FIU's ACM student chapter, led by chapter president Rahul Mittal and...
IT Software Project Showcase
Professor Greg Reis worked directly with his students during his course, Component-Based Software Development - COP 4814, in development of applications. Applications using API requests, frameworks such as Flask and Django, programming languages such as Python and...