Machine-learning algorithms that work with supercomputers to analyze and understand data in speedy time could hold the key to finding cures for many diseases — including the novel coronavirus. That’s what Florida International University researcher Fahad...
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Researchers receive NSF RAPID award to understand how individuals are socially influenced online during COVID-19
For most people, social media is Instagram selfies, LinkedIn articles and losing yourself in the world of Facebook. For Arif Mohaimin Sadri and M. Hadi Amini, social media means valuable data to analyze the public response to crises like COVID-19. Sadri is an...
Students rise against the odds to complete their senior design project on machine learning for robotics
In this time of uncertainty, when so many things have been put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two students rose above these challenges to complete their senior design project, remotely. Although the College of Engineering & Computing Senior Design...
Professors receive NSF grant to develop app to mitigate impact of COVID-19
The health care system has been impacted significantly due to the rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases. A shortage of basic medical supplies, personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical technology has been a major challenge for health care professionals around...
NIH awards FIU $1M to develop machine-learning algorithms to study proteins – important for understanding, treating diseases
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded FIU researchers a $1 million grant to design and develop machine-learning algorithms that allow biologists to make sense of proteomics, or the large-scale study of proteins. The study of proteins is...
2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship
Florida International University’s Academy for Computer Science Education and Bots for All, a nonprofit organization, hosted the 2nd Annual South Florida VEX Robotics Regional Championship on February 29th, 2020. High school students presented their engineering...
FIU team captures top national honors in blockchain competition
Alex Uribe Using a unique FIU Business-built blockchain, a multi-disciplinary team of FIU students captured first place in the Association for Information System’s national 2020 AIS Student Chapter Blockchain Challenge. The competition provided the first major...
Virtual reality project offers 21st-century skills to first-year experience students
FIU’s First-Year Experience course, designed to teach students life skills and prepare them for professional success, is providing learners with a new collaboration opportunity in virtual reality. COMMUNITY is a virtual reality-based experience...
Architecture & SCIS students at Florida International University built a replica of the Hard Rock Stadium for Miami-Dade Police.
https://youtu.be/eMN4QXA6UKw Samuel Morris was featured on Kansas City local KMBC 9 News on January 29th, 2020. He has worked with several students from FIU's School of Architecture on building a 3D replica of Hard Rock Stadium. The project was requested by local law...
NBC 6 visited the Robotics and Fabrication Lab at FIU
National Science Foundation has awarded $1M to FIU to jump-start its Robotics Academy. The awarded team will develop some innovative training tools and educational resources for Architecture, Engineering and Construction industries through next-generation technology...