
Advising
Need help with class information or understanding the programming tracks. We have advisors who are here to help. Please visit our advising page for more information.
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Tech Support
Get all the help you need with email access, wifi and assessing your files off campus. Most of your technical questions can be answered on our support page.
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Organizations
Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences is full of activities and our student organizations contribute to most of the activites for our students. Community outreach, hack-o-thons, and many more.
Learn more…Extracurricular Activities
Hackathons
Sleeping bags, pillows, pizza, soda and plenty of coffee. This might sound like an awesome sleepover or summer camp but it is just endless hours of coding and prototyping the next great thing.
Hackathons provide a venue for self-expression and creativity through technology. People form teams around a problem or idea, and collaboratively code a unique solution that generally take shape in the form of websites, mobile apps, and robots.
Programming Team
An elite group of students from Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences that compete in regional and online programming contests. The programming team offers intensive training which allows team members to develop top-notch problem-solving skills. The intensive training provides team members the ability to develop top-notch problem-solving skills.
The team holds special qualifier contests every September and January to select team members for scholarships.
Workshops
Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences provides plenty of workshops for students and to the community at large. the workshops vary but majority of them focus educating and training students in computer and gaming programming, mobile and web design and development, and robotics.
The workshops are lead by industry professionals with years of experience in their field. Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences also host many of the local and national workshops or camps.
Tech Station
Is a $3 million, 8,000 sq. ft hub for technology innovation, training and community engagement built to attract the next generation of top computing students.
Learn More…Recent News

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 (with AI) to help proteins pair up
Successful matchmaking with protein molecules is like all other kinds of matchmaking: The two must click for it to work. Except for proteins — the estimated 200 million unique molecular building blocks of life found in all people, animals, plants
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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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