Dr. Trevor Cickovski is leading a project team to smooth the pathway to graduation for transfer students, especially female students, and by doing so, improve the experience of transfer students who collectively occupy nearly 50% of the KFSCIS student population. The...
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UNSTOPPABLE! FIU Achieves its Highest Ranking Ever in U.S. News
FIU continues climbing in the U.S. News and World Report rankings released on Monday, coming in at No. 64 in the nation among public universities. FIU has jumped 64 spots among public universities and 91 spots overall in the past decade. In addition, the university...
ShellHacks in photos: Florida’s largest hackathon lights up Miami
Florida's tech boom is no longer just a moment. It's a movement. That was made clear recently at ShellHacks, Florida’s largest hackathon. More than 1,200 hackers from all over the world participated in the 36-hour coding fest at FIU’s Biscayne Bay...
Matchmaking Proteins Using Machine Learning
Professor Giri Narasimhan and Dr. Vitalii Stebliankin created a machine-learning model to predict how protein molecules will bind together, important for designing new medications and vaccines. The AI-based method uses biological and structural information to score...
KFSCIS Shines Bright: Leading the Way in FIU’s Top Scholar Awards
In the recent FIU Faculty Top Scholar awards, KFSCIS displayed remarkable excellence, securing an impressive six out of the top sixteen positions across the entire university. [su_row] [su_column size="3/4"] Dr. Janki Bhimani was the FIU Top Scholar for Award-Winning...
Dr. Fahad Saeed Awarded New $600k Research Grant
Professor Fahad Saeed has been awarded a new NSF grant as the sole PI of the project, titled "OAC Core: High-Performance Computing Algorithms and Software for Large-scale Mass Spectrometry-based Omics", which totals $600,000 over three years. The project's award...
Discovering Novel Peptides and Proteins through High-Performance Computing
Dr. Fahad Saeed is harnessing the power of new high-performance computational frameworks to enable effective analysis of biomolecules and molecular processes that contribute to the form and function of cells and tissues, through data produced from mass spectrometry...
Designing Tiered Memory Management Techniques
Professor Janki Bhimani is leading a new NSF Award to apply Machine Learning techniques to design tiered memory management systems for large-scale memory-intensive applications. In the project, she will explore the power of machine learning (ML) as well as its...
Two KFSCIS Faculty and Staff Members Receive CEC Honors
Dr. Sergio Pisano, Assistant Teaching Professor at KFSCIS received the College of Engineering and Computing’s (CEC) Teaching Award for 2023 for exceptional innovations in his classroom. Dr. Pisano says that “[he] is an engineer with a passion for teaching and...
FIU No. 4 best public university, according to Wall Street Journal
FIU is the No. 29 university in the nation and the fourth-ranked public university, according to the America’s Best Colleges 2024 rankings published today on WSJ.com. The Wall Street Journal also ranks FIU in the top 10 overall, both for social mobility and student...