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
My virtual internship at Facebook
Name: Azhar Ali Hometown: Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major: Computer Science and Mathematics Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at Facebook as a Facebook University (FBU) Engineering intern. FBU is a freshman/sophomore program...
ShellHacks 2020
The weekend of September 25-27th Upsilon Pi Epsilon virtually held ShellHacks via Hopin, Florida’s largest hackathon. ShellHacks was open to all students with the interest of coming to learn the latest technologies, build innovative projects, and showcase their...
Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path) Meeting/Social
In its fifth year, this NSF awarded, $5 million, five-year grant - Florida IT Pathways to Success project has provided 112 scholarships to our panthers as well as the development of a sense of community amongst our computer science, information technology, and...
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...