FIU scientists are using the power of marine robotics to monitor the bay’s health. In the summer of 2020, Biscayne Bay went into respiratory distress. High water temperatures coupled with lots of phosphorus nearly killed our bay. Hundreds of fish and marine life...
Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting. In 2024, an AI-based model created by Google correctly predicted Hurricane Beryl would make landfall in Texas while a top traditional model called for landfall in Mexico. Two months later, another...
The College of Engineering and Computing is proud to announce Ph.D. graduate Abhijith Sukumaran as its 2025 Outstanding Graduate for the Spring. Sukumaran, who earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering, has made groundbreaking contributions to space materials research...
During the Jameson Distillery tour on a vacation to Dublin in 2019, Jeremy Grunewald was captivated by the guide’s admission that thousands of bottles of whiskey are lost each day due to evaporation and cask leakage. For the chemical engineer who had worked in the...
Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world’s most powerful computers. The encryption method protects sensitive videos from quantum computers — a rare...
From a distance, a downburst can look like a torrent of heavy rain. But at ground level, its behavior can be far more destructive. When a downburst’s winds hit the ground, they shoot out horizontally in all directions, sometimes with enough force to shatter windows...
