Recent National Science Foundation CAREER recipient is building a digital architecture to rapidly process data. Smart devices that communicate with other smart devices, known as Internet of Things (IoT) applications, have revolutionized the modern way of life. From...
Faculty Highlight
Researchers investigate if antibodies from other viral infections help fight COVID-19
When people get vaccinated or get infected by a pathogen, their bodies fight the foreign substance by producing antibodies. They also create memory cells to remember the foreign invasion, so that future infections can be readily fought by the body by quickly producing...
AI for All is for Everybody
As graduating seniors at Florida International University (FIU), Charlie Ramirez and Sephora Jean-Mary headed into their final semester aiming to find a real-life business problem they could solve. Their senior design capstone project was supposed to enable...
Computing professor creates dashboard for COVID-19 prediction, visualization
Organizations around the world have created coronavirus-tracking tools to monitor COVID-19 cases through real-time analytics. An FIU professor, who specializes in theoretical optimization and learning algorithms, has created a dashboard that...
FIU researchers are developing solutions for smart city infrastructures, autonomous vehicles
Two of our researchers from the College of Engineering & Computing – M. Hadi Amini, an assistant professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences, and Alireza Rahimi, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Civil and...
SCIS Award Ceremony 2019 recap
This has been a very remarkable year for all of us in the School of Computing and Information Sciences in terms of making an impact on Florida International University (FIU) and the College of Engineering and Computing. We attracted outstanding new faculty who are...
SCIS Researchers from solid lab Received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
Congratulations to Computer Science Ph.D. student Ahmed Imteaj and his advisor M. Hadi Amini, assistant professor, who was awarded the Best Paper Award during the Annual Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. As members of...
Dr. Mark A. Finlayson wins Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities
Recently, Dr. Mark A. Finlayson won the Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities. This award recognizes excellence in scholarly achievement or artistic/literary accomplishment. Six awards will be given, each award carries a $5,000 stipend. ...
A reimagined internet may be closer than you think
It’s hard to imagine a world without the internet. But with the rise of machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT), today’s internet faces serious challenges. Through a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a collaborative project...
FIU to help infuse artificial intelligence into the building design, construction industries with $1 million NSF grant
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of FIU researchers to evaluate the automation needs of the architecture, engineering and construction industries and develop a training program in...