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
SparkDev Fall 2019 Demo Day!
3 years ago I co-founded SparkDev, a development program focused on satisfying your hunger to learn more about topics like artificial intelligence, cyber security, virtual reality, website development and much more. Never would I have imagined that our signature...
SCIS Student Shanna Sit internship experience at JPMorgan Chase
Shanna is a current undergraduate student studying computer science and is also working toward obtaining a certificate in Japanese through FIU’s Asian Studies Program. This past summer, she accepted the opportunity to intern at JPMorgan Chase as part...
Recap: 2019 ACM Southeast USA Regional Programming Contest
On Saturday, November 9th, FIU was one of the four sites of the Southeast regional (SER) International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Twenty-one of the 122 teams that competed yesterday from across the southeast region (Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina,...
SCIS Student Sunanda Guha Attended Workshops at 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019)
Sunanda Guha, 1st year PhD student has attended ACM BuildSys 2019 on 10th November, 2019 at Columbia University along with her PhD advisor Dr. M. Hadi Amini at Columbia University, New York. She is a member of Sustainability, Optimization, and Learning...
Senior design experience leads grad to be named ‘rockstar’ engineer
Rachelle Tobkes graduated from FIU in 2016 and through Senior Design, she was hired to work for Citrix, a multinational software company providing workspace and cloud computing technologies. She was voted Citrix’s 2019 Rockstar Engineer for her innovation,...
Recap: Grace Hopper 2019
I believe young women in SCIS need the opportunity to learn about the wide range of careers and research available to them so that they can feel empowered to make a positive difference in the world. Maria "Cristy" Charters, SCIS Instructor Attending the Grace...
Rahul Mittal, FIU Homecoming Prince
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...
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...
12-month fellowship opportunity for Students
The eMerge Americas Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have partnered to establish a fellowship program that invests in the professional development of top-performing local university engineering students and introduces them to opportunities at...
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...