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Facebook Summer Machine Learning Internship Experience

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...

Got my first job! Working at Facebook

Got my first job! Working at Facebook

In this series, recent grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know how they did it. ...

Vitalii Stebliankin: Summer Experience

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

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...

My virtual internship at Nike

My virtual internship at Nike

Name: Nazmul (Naz) Huq Hometown: Miami, FL  What is your major? I’m a computer science major in the College of Engineering & Computing with a certificate in Japanese through the Asian Studies Program. Where are you interning? What do you...

Interns at MITRE work on a safer world

Interns at MITRE work on a safer world

It’s rare for anyone to receive a behind-the-scenes education of how the country’s cyber operations work. But for some Panthers interning at MITRE this summer, this is their reality. A total of eight FIU students have internships with MITRE, developing their skills in...