Our CEC faculty at Florida International University recently shared their insights on how engineering and computer science can make our world a happier place at the World Happiness Fest.Among them, our own representative from KFSCIS, Dr. Hadi Amini, shared his...
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Congratulations to WiCyS at FIU for winning the Student Chapter Leadership Award
Left to right: Heidys Cabrere, Nava Haim, Analia Camarda, Danay Rumbaut, Zipporah Thomas, Tiana Solis, Lalliet Aberg Cobo, Yessenia Lopez Reyes, Emma Chu WiCyS is committed to bringing outstanding women together to celebrate and grow their passion and drive for...
The Women in Tech Conference (WiTCON) at Florida International University generates overwhelming enthusiasm in the FIU community
The first-ever Women in Tech Conference (WiTCON) at Florida International University (FIU) is set to take place on March 24th, and has already generated overwhelming enthusiasm within the FIU community. The event is being held at FIU's main campus in PG6, and...
Naphtali Rishe to lead new Florida Department of Environmental Protection Subproject
Prof. Naphtali Rishe, together with Profs. Daniel Gann (Biology) and Piero Gardinali (Chemistry), will be leading a subproject of a new Florida Department of Environmental Protection award led by Prof. James Fourqurean at the Institute of Environment. The award,...
FIU hosts the InterCollegiate Programming Competition
On Saturday, February 25, FIU hosted the Southeast regional International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Twenty-one of the 90 teams that competed yesterday from across the southeast region (Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi) came to our...
Congratulations to Prof. Mohammadhadi Amini and his team for a $1.5M award from USDOT UTC program
The US Department of Transportation has announced the funding of its new National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR). This award, made under the USDOT's University Transportation Center (UTC) program, is expected to total $4 million per...
KFSCIS’s Dr. Gregory Reis and Dr. Leonardo Bobadilla are part of FDEP Grant
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) awarded a $999,581 grant award entitled, "Development of next-generation autonomous sensing platforms for water quality monitoring and HAB detection" to FIU. The award will be led by Dr. Kevin Boswell of the...
New Accelerated Degree Pathway in Cybersecurity Available
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Accelerated Degree Program for the Cybersecurity Masters. This innovative program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to take their education to the next level and start working towards a Master's in...
Congratulations to Prof. Mark Finlayson on receiving an NEH grant
A message from KFSCIS Director, Dr. Jason Liu: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has just announced $28.1M for 204 Humanities Projects nationwide. It is a highly competitive program. I'm happy to announce that Mark Finalson is Co-PI of a new $150,000 grant...
Associate Professor Mark Finlayson on AI and the Future of Work
Click here to listen to the interview. Mark Finlayson, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Florida International University Large language models are sophisticated sequence completion machines: Give one a sequence of words (“I would like to eat an …”) and it will...