The health care system has been impacted significantly due to the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases. A shortage of basic medical supplies, personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical technology has been a major challenge for health care professionals around...
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NIH awards FIU $1M to develop machine-learning algorithms to study proteins – important for understanding, treating diseases
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...
Computing professor creates dashboard for COVID-19 prediction, visualization
Organizations around the world have created coronavirus-tracking tools to monitor COVID-19 cases through real-time analytics. An FIU professor, who specializes in theoretical optimization and learning algorithms, has created a dashboard that...
FIU researchers are developing solutions for smart city infrastructures, autonomous vehicles
Two of our researchers from the College of Engineering & Computing – M. Hadi Amini, an assistant professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences, and Alireza Rahimi, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil and...
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...
Senior students, see instructions for your virtual presentation here.
Dear College of Engineering & Computing Seniors,You’ve spent your last year cultivating original ideas, designing and creating innovations to produce solutions for industry problems through the Senior Design Capstone course. The time to present is fast...
FIU team captures top national honors in blockchain competition
Alex Uribe Using a unique FIU Business-built blockchain, a multi-disciplinary team of FIU students captured first place in the Association for Information System’s national 2020 AIS Student Chapter Blockchain Challenge. The competition provided the first major...
Virtual reality project offers 21st-century skills to first-year experience students
FIU’s First-Year Experience course, designed to teach students life skills and prepare them for professional success, is providing learners with a new collaboration opportunity in virtual reality. COMMUNITY is a virtual reality-based experience...
Virtual Google Development Workshops with UPE
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, technologists around the world are scrambling to do their part in mitigating the pandemic. For many students, the transition to remote schooling resulted in a loss of on-campus learning resources, including in-person mentoring, workshops,...
Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s Valentines Gift to SCIS Students
Valentine’s Day, a day where people express their love to their dearest companions, has been, for the most part, unchanging where traditions are usually predicated on showing affection to others. But what about showing love and appreciation for programming, a valuable...