When a small battalion of 100-pound robots appeared in the lake behind FIU’s Green Library, onlookers had no idea they were witnessing the future of marine environmental monitoring. To casual observers, it seemed like autonomous vessels moving at random and...
A pivot from healthcare to computer science led Mareline Ramirez on a path to Bank of America. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, just months after graduating from FIU in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies focused on a biomedical track, Mareline...
Maryna Veksler moved from Ukraine in 2015 to enroll at FIU after the school’s tennis coach relentlessly pursued her. Several programs had eyes on the then-teenager, but “She was the most persistent,” Veksler says of the woman who heads the FIU team. “I was shocked,”...
As a seventh grader in Sanniquellie City, Liberia, Collins Vaye was determined to access a better education. Unhappy with the learning environment of his public school, he took a bold step and approached the registrar at a private school he couldn’t afford and...
From earning a 3.98 GPA across 75 Ph.D. credits to securing a tenure-track faculty position, Alvi Khalil’s path reflects both scholarly excellence and purposeful impact. A Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University, he...
Javier Salgueiro is that rare blend of technical skill and interpersonal warmth — a software engineer who both speaks Python and builds meaningful connections with colleagues, clients and friends. He is also one of a number of recent graduates from FIU’s Knight...
