The Council for Student Organization held a spring gathering for clubs all around FIU, several of which where part of the School of Information and Computing Sciences. SCIS Clubs participating: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) WICS...
Student Highlight
Perseverance lands engineering student an internship at MIT
This past summer, Garcia got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was among them. He spent 10 weeks at MIT,...
2017 SCIS Annual Awards Banquet
This year FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences was filled with a lot of achievements from students, faculty, and staff. The Awards Committee have carefully selected a few faculty, students and staff for this year awards. Please visit the 2017 Awards...
FIU Students Working to Build Smart Cities with SOP Technologies
FIU Seniors worked on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. SOP Technologies' Smart Stormwater system is an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that uses sensors and web interfaces to prevent water pollution,...
NBC 6 Discusses Dangers of Facebook quizzes with FIU SCIS Ph.D. students
Although fun and interesting, quizzes on Facebook have the potential of releasing your personal information to companies. FIU SCIS PhD students Sajedul Talukder, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, and Georges Kamhouaalong along with CaSPR Labs showed NBC 6 News exactly what...
SCIS Ph.D. student Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, custom two-factor authentication (2FA) system
SCIS Ph.D. student Mozhgan Azimpourkivi co-advised by Dr. Umut Tokara, Bloomberg LP and SCIS Associate Professor, Dr.Bogdan Carbunar have created a custom two-factor authentication (2FA) system called Pixie that relies on users taking a photo of a personal object. The...
SCIS at the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference
FIU SCIS invited 25 young ladies in IT and CS to attend the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida. The girls attended all 3 days of the conference, starting each day with the keynote speeches by some of the most inspiring and leading women in technology,...
SCIS Students wins The BlueHack hack-a-thon held by IBM
The BlueHack, which was held from July 19-21, was the first virtual hack-a-thon held by IBM, where a total of 77 teams from 20 different IBM sites around the US competed in 4 different categories. Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon were members of Team NASAS, which...
Graduate Student, Deya Banisakher wins Best Poster at FLAIRS Conference
Deya M. Banisakher, a Ph.D. Candidate at FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), have won the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) Award for Best Poster, "A Supervised Classification Approach to...
Summer 2017 Graduate Students Internships
The School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) highlights some of the Ph.D. students in Computer Science who have received internship opportunities at important and renowned companies this Summer: Deya Banisakher Deya Banisakher is a Ph.D. candidate at SCIS...










