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WICS – LinkedIn Workshop + Professional Headshots

WICS – LinkedIn Workshop + Professional Headshots

  At this workshop, students got the opportunity to make their LinkedIn profile more appealing to potential recruiters. After the workshop, the students got to take a professional headshots which they can use for their LinkedIn profiles. [gallery type="slideshow"...

FIU Coding Clubs Showcase

FIU Coding Clubs Showcase

The FIU Coding Clubs Showcase is a family event in which the club members present to the community games and projects they have coded using Scratch. The more advanced students present educational slides on the fundamentals of coding and discuss achievements by...

VR Club – Make a Virtual Reality Game in Unreal Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QF8J-vGAs Learn how to create experiences for Virtual Reality in a Beginner Workshop. We’ll walk you through the steps, from beginning to end, on how to: Install Unreal Engine on your laptop Set up the VR Development Kit available on...

Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament

Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament

The tournament brought together over a hundred students from around campus to compete, have fun, and start relaxing for spring break! There where lots of giveaways from Nintendo, Amazon, Discord, Pepsi, and Monster.  Prizes for the tournament and contest included...

SCIS Assistant Professor awarded NSF CAREER

SCIS Assistant Professor awarded NSF CAREER

Mark A. Finlayson has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop new artificial intelligence techniques to automatically uncover and confirm the fundamental structures underlying narrative. Using this funding, Dr. Finlayson and his...

FIU take HackFSU

FIU take HackFSU

Hack FSU is a Hackathon hosted by Florida State University in conjunction with FAMU. Celebrating their 5th year hosting a hackathon, FSU welcomed over 400 students from all around Florida for this 36 hour event. 55 students from FIU traveled 8 hours to spend the...

SCIS PH.D. students awarded University Fellowship

SCIS PH.D. students awarded University Fellowship

We are happy to report that three of our Ph.D. students, Tauhidul Alam, Samia Tasnim, and Georges Kamhoua Kamto, were awarded the University Graduate School's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Thank you for nominating your students and offering your support!