Empowering Startup Communities and Supporting Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in Miami and South Florida Mohsen Taheri has been awarded the UGS Provost Award for Graduate Student Engagement at the Provost Awards Recognition Reception, which took place during the...
Student Highlight
SCIS PH.D. students awarded University Fellowship
We are happy to report that three of our Ph.D. students, Tauhidul Alam, Samia Tasnim, and Georges Kamhoua Kamto, were awarded the University Graduate School's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Thank you for nominating your students and offering your support!
MangoHacks: Building code for fun can lead to students landing jobs
From improving your rehab to rehabbing your nightlife – these are just some of the problems that about 550 students tried to solve at the recent MangoHacks hosted at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences‘ PG6 Tech Station. Participants in FIU’s largest...
SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!
Krista Shuckerow, B.S in Statistics, second major – Economics; minor in Computer Science has accepted her first job at Google. As a sophomore, I went to my first hackathon, MangoHacks, at FIU in spring of 2016. I walked in, joined a team, built a project and demoed...
Microsoft’s College Code Competition (MSFT3C)
MSFT3C is a free coding competition sponsored and run by Microsoft exclusively for college students. Students come with a team of 3-4 or create their own at the event, the teams will be given an easy, medium and hard question. The team with the most points will win...
SCIS Club’s table at Council for Student Organization
The Council for Student Organization held a spring gathering for clubs all around FIU, several of which where part of the School of Information and Computing Sciences. SCIS Clubs participating: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) WICS...
Perseverance lands engineering student an internship at MIT
This past summer, Garcia got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was among them. He spent 10 weeks at MIT,...
2017 SCIS Annual Awards Banquet
This year FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences was filled with a lot of achievements from students, faculty, and staff. The Awards Committee have carefully selected a few faculty, students and staff for this year awards. Please visit the 2017 Awards...
FIU Students Working to Build Smart Cities with SOP Technologies
FIU Seniors worked on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. SOP Technologies' Smart Stormwater system is an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that uses sensors and web interfaces to prevent water pollution,...
NBC 6 Discusses Dangers of Facebook quizzes with FIU SCIS Ph.D. students
Although fun and interesting, quizzes on Facebook have the potential of releasing your personal information to companies. FIU SCIS PhD students Sajedul Talukder, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, and Georges Kamhouaalong along with CaSPR Labs showed NBC 6 News exactly what...