The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) recently announced that Dr. Wenqian Dong had been selected as one of three winners of the 2023 IEEE–CS Technical Community on High-Performance Computing (TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance...
Faculty Award
2023 Faculty Awards of Excellence
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hadi Amini and Dr. Selcuk Uluagac recently received Faculty Awards of Excellence. Dr. Amini was recognized in the category of teaching, receiving the FIU Award in Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Uluagac was honored in the research...
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. [su_row] [su_column size="3/4"] Dr. Janki Bhimani was the FIU Top Scholar for Award-Winning...
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...
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...
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...
KFSCIS Professor Awarded $500,000 NSF Grant for Environment
KFSCIS Associate Professor Leonardo Bobadilla, Principal Investigator, in collaboration with the Institute of Environment, the Division of Information Technology, the International Hurricane Research Center, and the Department of Architecture, has received a new NSF...
AI-driven RFID Sensing for Smart Health Applications
Many existing health monitoring systems are expensive, uncomfortable to wear, or can only be administered in a hospital environment. With advances on the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is highly desirable to...
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education for Environmental Robotics
KFSCIS researchers Drs. Agoritza Polyzou, Gregory Reis and Debra Davis will join Professor Shahin Vassigh (FIU Architecture) on a new NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) award. The Augmented Learning for Environmental Robotics Technologies (ALERT) aims...
Detection and Containment of Influence Campaigns
Dr. Bogdan Carbunar is conducting research to study, detect, and contain influence campaigns in social media. The project, supported by NSF, introduces a novel approach to the study of influence campaigns, improving our understanding of the threats they pose, and...