Yiqi Xu’s research focus is in the resource management of big-data systems, including parallel and distributed storage systems. His projects include vPFS, a framework that supports diverse plugins to achieve different types of Quality of Service (QoS) for parallel...
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DOT funds $11.4 million UniversityCity proposal
SCIS Professor Naphtali Rishe and NSF/CAKE team will deploy an innovative Intelligent Transportation System to assist students, university staff, and community members to move efficiently to and through the FIU campus. Read more...
FIU's Iyengar inducted as a Fellow by National Academy of Inventors
Distinguished Ryder Professor S.S. Iyengar has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. The director of FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences is widely recognized as one of the principal pioneers in sensor...
Karl Morris CS PhD Candidate "Best in Show" Miami's Got Tech 2014
Miami's Got Tech!, the third annual Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce event that highlights emerging entrepreneurs and collegiate innovation, attracted a record crowd to Venture Hive in downtown Miami Thursday night. Along with networking, eight teams...
Miami Herald: Discovery Lab's Telebot Featured at Miami Maker Faire
Anthony Martelly, 9, could hardly contain his excitement as he and his mom, Amorette Speaks, waited for a demonstration of “Hutch,” Florida International University’s 6-foot tall “telebot,” who gave a show every hour. Steve Luis, a...
U.S. Department of Defense awards $2.1 million in grants to university
SCIS Asst. Professors Bogdan Carbunar and Ming Zhao have received DoD funding for data protection techniques for mobile devices and resource management of virtualized systems respectively. SCIS Asst. Professors Bogdan Carbunar and Ming Zhao have received DoD...
Miami Herald: South Florida's app economy emerging on many fronts
The number of payroll jobs in information services, a broad sector of the economy encompassing software development and publishing, has risen by 1,200 in Miami-Dade and Broward counties since 2010 Read more...
Keeping Fitbit safe from hackers and cheaters with FitLock
The GigaOM article explores how FIU SCIS Asst. Prof. Dr. Bogdan Carbunar and his team "has shown that Fitbits can be subject to attacks including denial of service, injection, and data capture." The team developed FitLock a tool to address many of the...
SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
Gregory Jean-Baptiste, a recent FIU SCIS Computer Science Bachelors graduate won the Fellowship award which provides an annual stipend and tuition support for up to five years. We congratulate Gregory as he continues his graduate studies with FIU SCIS. ...
Professor Mark Allen Weiss named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Mark Allen Weiss, professor and associate director of Florida International University's School of Computing & Information Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor...