FIU engineers awarded patent to process and find computer data more efficiently
Computers handle a lot more than we think. Take, for example, when a coworker sends a zip file via email. To read the documents within the zip file, a computer user has to decompress the file, which takes up memory space and processing time. As more and more data gets...
FIU launches cybersecurity apprenticeship program
Florida International University has received approximately $2 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to launch the Cybersecurity Apprenticeship Program (Cyber-CAP). The program is aimed at giving learners the necessary technical skills, on-the-job training and...
CEC Faculty Fellows Jason Liu and Sharan Ramaswamy are working to enhance diversity and equity
Jason Liu, Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor and Interim Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and Sharan Ramaswamy, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, are two of this year’s Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity (AWED)...
Student co-founded startup that gives businesses data-driven insights
Eric Azcona, an undergraduate information technology student at FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), is proving that you can pursue your career and study at the same time. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Azcona immigrated to the...
Researchers look to control organ function through new computational model
The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what information to deliver and sending messages to organs to take action. At...
Ranu Jung and Adaptive Neural Systems Lab named a 2020 Cade Prize winner
Ranu Jung, eminent scholar professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and her Adaptive Neural System Lab (ANSL) team was recently named a 2020 Cade Prize winner. Given by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, the Cade Prize awards...
My internship at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Name: Sasha Omadally Hometown: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major? Mechanical Engineering Where did you intern? What was your role there? I was a product development engineering intern at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) this past summer. How did you...
Students take top placement at nuclear remediation competition
It’s a dirty job, but someone needs to do it. The U.S. has millions of gallons of hazardous radioactive waste buried beneath the surface at Department of Energy facilities around the country. The byproducts of World War II and a Cold War nuclear weapons race are...
Got my first job! Working as a software engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Name: Cesar Villa Garcia Hometown: Lima, Peru Degree/major: Bachelor of science in computer science Where are you working? Title? JPMorgan Chase & Co., software engineer How did you get your job? I learned about opportunities at JPMorgan Chase & Co. at an...
My virtual internship at Facebook
Name: Azhar Ali Hometown: Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major? Computer Science and Mathematics Where did you intern? What was your role there? I interned at Facebook as a Facebook University (FBU) Engineering intern. FBU is a freshman/sophomore program...
Virtual hackathon breaks attendance record with nearly 1,300 attendees
During a 36-hour event that broke records for the fourth year in a row, nearly 1,300 university students gathered virtually September 25-27 to participate in ShellHacks, Florida’s largest hackathon held annually by FIU during the fall semester. Many of the...
Biomedical engineering doctoral students win prestigious NIH research fellowship
Two students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering recently won a National Institutes of Health F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award - Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. Valentina Dargam and...
