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...
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AI for All is for Everybody
As graduating seniors at Florida International University (FIU), Charlie Ramirez and Sephora Jean-Mary headed into their final semester aiming to find a real-life business problem they could solve. Their senior design capstone project was supposed to enable...
FIU Board of Trustees approves campus repopulation plan, extends President Mark B. Rosenberg’s contract, elects new leadership
The FIU Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved the university’s plan for resuming in-person classes and on-campus operations in the fall. The FIU Repopulating Task Force, made up of university administrators, faculty, staff, medical experts and emergency management...
Opportunities for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (OURS)
The Center for Diversity and Student Success in Engineering and Computing (CD-SSEC) launched its inaugural student research cohort this spring with 12 students from six different majors and eight faculty mentors. The mission of OURS (Opportunities for...
NIH Awards FIU $1M To Develop ML Algorithms To Study Proteins
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded FIU researchers a $1 million grant to design and develop machine-learning algorithms that allow biologists to make sense of proteomics, or the large-scale study of proteins. The study of proteins is...
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...
Got my first job! Working at Microsoft.
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. ...
FIU researchers think of a way to speed up a vaccine for COVID-19. Now there’s a $1M grant.
Machine-learning algorithms that work with supercomputers to analyze and understand data in speedy time could hold the key to finding cures for many diseases — including the novel coronavirus. That’s what Florida International University researcher Fahad...
Researchers receive NSF RAPID award to understand how individuals are socially influenced online during COVID-19
For most people, social media is Instagram selfies, LinkedIn articles and losing yourself in the world of Facebook. For Arif Mohaimin Sadri and M. Hadi Amini, social media means valuable data to analyze the public response to crises like COVID-19. Sadri is an...
Students rise against the odds to complete their senior design project on machine learning for robotics
In this time of uncertainty, when so many things have been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two students rose above these challenges to complete their senior design project, remotely. Although the College of Engineering & Computing Senior Design...