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. ...
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Rahul Mittal, FIU Homecoming Prince
When I started at Florida International University in Fall 2017, moving from India, I didn’t even know what Homecoming was. I learned that Homecoming celebrated the spirit of FIU by inviting alumni and organizing various festivities throughout the week for current...
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...
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...
ShellHacks 2019 Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZO8Kh9Cl3g Thirty-six hours of no sleep, plenty of coffee and a will to do good, that’s the idea behind ShellHacks, the largest hackathon in Florida held at FIU’s Graham Center. The hackathon, a sprint-like event where...
12-month fellowship opportunity for Students
The eMerge Americas Foundation and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have partnered to establish a fellowship program that invests in the professional development of top-performing local university engineering students and introduces them to opportunities at...
My internship at Microsoft as an engineer, program manager
During the summer of 2019, Catherine Angelini interned at Microsoft at its corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. During her internship, she worked as a program manager and software engineer with the information protection team of Office 365 Security and...
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...
SCIS Ph.D. Student Received a Highly Competitive Travel Grant to Attend Workshops at 6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2019)
Sunanda Guha, a first-year Ph.D. student at School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), College of Engineering and Computing has been awarded the prestigious travel grant to attend Device-free Human Sensing Workshop at the 6th ACM International Conference on...
India FIU, New Academic and Industry Partnership
We had the honor this month to host the Consul General of India along with Indian Consulate officials at the FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus here at FIU to discuss academic and industry partnerships with India. Leading the conversations was Ms. Birgitta “Gitta”...