Prof. Naphtali Rishe, together with Profs. Daniel Gann (Biology) and Piero Gardinali (Chemistry), will be leading a subproject of a new Florida Department of Environmental Protection award led by Prof. James Fourqurean at the Institute of Environment. The award,...
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Congratulations to Prof. Mohammadhadi Amini and his team for a $1.5M award from USDOT UTC program
The US Department of Transportation has announced the funding of its new National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR). This award, made under the USDOT's University Transportation Center (UTC) program, is expected to total $4 million per...
KFSCIS’s Dr. Gregory Reis and Dr. Leonardo Bobadilla are part of FDEP Grant
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) awarded a $999,581 grant award entitled, "Development of next-generation autonomous sensing platforms for water quality monitoring and HAB detection" to FIU. The award will be led by Dr. Kevin Boswell of the...
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Finlayson on receiving an NEH grant
A message from KFSCIS Director, Dr. Jason Liu: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has just announced $28.1M for 204 Humanities Projects nationwide. It is a highly competitive program. I'm happy to announce that Mark Finalson is Co-PI of a new $150,000 grant...
Associate Professor Mark Finlayson on AI and the Future of Work
Click here to listen to the interview. Mark Finlayson, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Florida International University Large language models are sophisticated sequence completion machines: Give one a sequence of words (“I would like to eat an …”) and it will...
Kemal Akkaya Selected as IEEE Fellow
Professor Kemal Akkaya was recently elevated to a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The rare distinction recognizes exceptional accomplishments in the engineering field. Dr. Akkaya was recognized for his contributions to routing...
Professor S. S. Iyengar invited to present Keynote address at the 7th INTERPOL Digital Forensic Expert Group
Professor S. S. Iyengar has been invited to present the keynote address at the 7th INTERPOL Digital Forensic Expert Group (DFEG) Meeting from 8-10 Nov 2022 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. The international INTERPOL meeting is one of the most...
3 skills critical for success in 21st century – and how to develop them through newly launched micro-credentials
Artificial Intelligence: How it works and its impact Artificial Intelligence (AI), for example, is increasingly becoming part of daily life. We encounter it in many forms, from smart devices like Siri and Alexa to self-driving cars or industry-specific technology...
Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?
"When pufferfish and barracudas turned up dead on the bay’s surface waters, citizens and research teams flocked to the bay to remove dead fish and collect data. Among them was FIU’s Institute of Environment team. The CREST Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Environment...
Professor receives prestigious IBM Global Academic Award
Naphtali Rishe, professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, is the recipient of the 2021 IBM Global University Program Academic Award. The award is a recognition of Rishe's ongoing research in Geospatial...