Community
Service to the community is an important mission we strive to fulfill. Our school seeks to have both a global scientific impact and an engaged and relevant local impact on technology-related industries in Miami and South Florida. Whether we are providing advanced workshops for teachers, demonstrating the state-of-the-art technology at an event, or providing at-risk students with opportunities to learn about technology, our faculty, staff, and students are committed to sharing our knowledge and talents for the betterment of society
UPE Kickoff Fall 2020
With the beginning of the final semester of 2020, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest technology organization within FIU, held its 2020 Fall Kickoff General Meeting virtually via Zoom on August 28th. The meeting was open to all students regardless of major or...
My virtual internship at Allstate as a software engineer
Name: Glenda Gonzalez Hometown: Miami, FL What is your major: Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned virtually at Allstate as a software engineer within their Allstate Dealer Services (ADS) department. How did you get your...
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: Internship Experience
Name: Muhammad Haseeb Ph.D. student, SCIS, Parallel Computing & Data Science Research Group (SaeedLab) Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan During Summer 2020, I worked as an intern at the National Energy Research and Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) division of the...
Facebook Summer Machine Learning Internship Experience
Name: Daniel Ruiz-Perez Hometown: Born in Bilbao and raised in Galicia, both in Spain Ph.D. Student, SCIS, Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG); This summer I did a remote internship at Facebook. I interned as part of the Facebook App Monetization Team, which is...
Vitalii Stebliankin: Summer Experience
Name: Vitalii Stebliankin Hometown: Yekaterinburg, Russia Ph.D. Student, SCIS, Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG); In Summer 2020, I was lucky to work in Assurant Inc. as a Data Engineering Intern. During my internship, I worked on a data processing pipeline...
PantherHacks: Innovating for COVID-19
Two weeks ago, FIU’s largest technology organization, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), worked alongside FIU President Mark Rosenberg to host Florida’s very first PantherHacks! PantherHacks was a virtual weekend-long hackathon focused on developing creative solutions to the...
WiCyS partners with Google to announce SANS Security Training Scholarship
WiCyS is pleased to announce an exciting collaborative professional development opportunity with our strategic partner, Google! Google is offering 100 WiCyS members an opportunity for a reliable pathway to launch and advance their careers in cybersecurity through...
REU for Women in Color at FIU
As part of her NSF CAREER Award - Cracking the diversity code: Understanding computing pathways of those least represented in order to foster their representation, Dr. Monique Ross hosted eleven women studying computing from all over the country for a research...
FIU UPE receives the Outstanding Chapter Award from the UPE National Council!
We're happy to share that UPE at FIU has received the Outstanding Chapter Award from the UPE National Council this year! The chapter was selected from 300+ chapters worldwide for a fourth year in a row. #UPEFIU was recognized for building the tech community at...
2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship
Florida International University’s Academy for Computer Science Education and Bots for All, a nonprofit organization, hosted the 2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship on February 29th, 2020. High school students presented their engineering...