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KFSCIS Team Leads New Transfer Pathways Project 

Dr. Trevor Cickovski is leading a project team to smooth the pathway to graduation for transfer students, especially female students, and by doing so, improve the experience of transfer students who collectively occupy nearly 50% of the KFSCIS student population. The project
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UNSTOPPABLE! FIU Achieves its Highest Ranking Ever in U.S. News 

FIU continues climbing in the U.S. News and World Report rankings released on Monday, coming in at No. 64 in the nation among public universities. FIU has jumped 64 spots among public universities and 91 spots overall in the past decade. In
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Photo of attendees at Shellhacks 2023

ShellHacks in photos: Florida’s largest hackathon lights up Miami

Florida’s tech boom is no longer just a moment. It’s a movement.  That was made clear recently at ShellHacks, Florida’s largest hackathon. More than 1,200 hackers from all over the world participated in the 36-hour coding fest at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus, including hundreds of students
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Matchmaking Proteins Using Machine Learning

Professor Giri Narasimhan and Dr. Vitalii Stebliankin created a machine-learning model to predict how protein molecules will bind together, important for designing new medications and vaccines. The AI-based method uses biological and structural information to score the strength of the
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KFSCIS Shines Bright: Leading the Way in FIU’s Top Scholar Awards

In the recent FIU Faculty Top Scholar awards, KFSCIS displayed remarkable excellence, securing an impressive six out of the top sixteen positions across the entire university.

Dr. Fahad Saeed Awarded New $600k Research Grant

Professor Fahad Saeed has been awarded a new NSF grant as the sole PI of the project, titled “OAC Core: High-Performance Computing Algorithms and Software for Large-scale Mass Spectrometry-based Omics”, which totals $600,000 over three years.  The project’s award abstract
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Discovering Novel Peptides and Proteins through High-Performance Computing

Dr. Fahad Saeed is harnessing the power of new high-performance computational frameworks to enable effective analysis of biomolecules and molecular processes that contribute to the form and function of cells and tissues, through data produced from mass spectrometry machines. His
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Designing Tiered Memory Management Techniques

Professor Janki Bhimani is leading a new NSF Award to apply Machine Learning techniques to design tiered memory management systems for large-scale memory-intensive applications. In the project, she will explore the power of machine learning (ML) as well as its limits
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Two KFSCIS Faculty and Staff Members Receive CEC Honors

Dr. Sergio Pisano, Assistant Teaching Professor at KFSCIS received the College of Engineering and Computing’s (CEC) Teaching Award for 2023 for exceptional innovations in his classroom. Dr. Pisano says that “[he] is an engineer with a passion for teaching and
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FIU is ranked the #4 Best Public University by the Wall Street Journal

FIU No. 4 best public university, according to Wall Street Journal

FIU is the No. 29 university in the nation and the fourth-ranked public university, according to the America’s Best Colleges 2024 rankings published today on WSJ.com. The Wall Street Journal also ranks FIU in the top 10 overall, both for
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Three BS programs from KFSCIS have been accredited by ABET

Three KFSCIS Bachelor of Science Programs Receive ABET Accreditation

We are thrilled to announce a significant achievement in our academic endeavors – all three of our Bachelor of Science programs that underwent a rigorous review by the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) last year have now received their ABET accreditations.
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New South Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center

KFSCIS, in collaboration with FIU’s Institute of Environment (IoE), has received a new NSF award, “An AI/ML Collaborative for Southeast Florida Coastal Environmental Data and Modeling Center.” Dr. Jason Liu will lead the research team in conjunction with other KFSCIS
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