Dr. Mark Allen Weiss, SCIS Associate Director and SCIS Eminent Scholar Professor has been named the recipient of the 2015 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. The award is presented annually to a single individual in recognition of...
The Department of Architecture’s Dr. Winifred Newman (Associate Professor and Director of Advanced Studies) is leading a team of seven FIU faculty members designing and developing a new Virtual Reality (VR) system on campus. The new instrument is called the...
Despite a recession that hurt the computer science field nationwide and budget cuts to computer science programs in the state, SCIS has managed to continue to grow over the past six years. Today, the school has over 2,000 students enrolled in six computer science/IT...
The girls visited the Discovery Lab the High Performance Database Research Center. During the workshop, the girls learned how to utilize the Terrafly API to build their own web-based geolocation mapping app using JavaScript. Read more...
Worlds Ahead - Fausto Fleites Fausto Fleites was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. Taught himself how to write computer programs. Studied Computer Science at Havana University. In 2004, left Cuba. Despite language challenges, Fausto graduated with a 3.99 GPA. Technical...
Kianoosh G Boroojenia, Shekoufeh Mokhtaria, and S. S. Lyengar have been selected for the Best Paper Award for the Eighth International Conference on Communication Networks. They will be receiving the award on July 26 2014 at Hotel Capitol for...
On June 3rd, 2014, the School of Computing and Information Sciences and the FIU College of Medicine co-hosted a distinguished panel discussion in Computational Medicine entitled “Emerging Technologies, Computational Sciences, and Cancer Therapeutics...
We hosted the Girls Who Code Miami Program Summer Cohort of 40 talented female High School students and taught students how to use APIs to develop a simple GIS application. Read more at FIU News.
Partnered with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and Google to present a Coding Jam for Middle Schoolers hosted by our school. 60 diverse students attended and experienced coding for the first time! Read more at HispanicHeritage.org
Arriving in Aug. 2014 Ruogu Fang, PhD, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. She received the B.S. degree (highest honors) in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2009. Her research is on the interface of health informatics,...
