Engineering professor awarded coveted 2021 Microsoft Security Research AI Award
Amin Kharraz was recently awarded a Microsoft collaborative research grant, which will allow him to serve as a lead collaborator in the tech giant’s M365 Security & Compliance Research Division. Kharraz—assistant professor at the Knight Foundation School of...
Digital attacks fuel the need for network security experts
Cyberattacks are surging in all categories of the digital sphere and are likely to become more frequent and damaging, states Alexander Perez-Pons, associate professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With high profile attacks on network management...
My internship at Moss Construction working on FIU’s Parkview Housing Phase II
Name: Ysabella Guggino Hometown: Tampa, FL Degree/major: Construction management How did you get your internship with Moss Construction? From Professor Faria! He sent out an email in late 2020, and I applied and got interviewed! FIU always sends out fantastic...
5 New Mentor Professors join the Panther family
The Office to Advance Women, Equity & Diversity (AWED) will add five more mentor professors to the university starting in the Fall 2021 semester as part of the Mentor Professor Program, an ongoing initiative to recruit excellent faculty who have an outstanding...
3 skills critical for success in 21st century – and how to develop them through newly launched micro-credentials
Artificial Intelligence: How it works and its impact Artificial Intelligence (AI), for example, is increasingly becoming part of daily life. We encounter it in many forms, from smart devices like Siri and Alexa to self-driving cars or industry-specific technology that...
FIU Professor and Researcher Receives 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Award
Congratulations to Mark Finlayson, Eminent Scholar chaired associate professor of computer science at FIU's Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, for receiving the 2021 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award...
Engineering student named 2022 Minority Student Fellow by Transportation Research Board
Jesus Molina has been named one of 24 Class of 2022 Minority Student Fellows by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Molina is an undergraduate student at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing pursuing a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. “We are very...
Summer camp empowers young women, inspires them to pursue construction management
Twenty-five 13 to 18-year-old girls, industry guests and Moss Department of Construction Management alumni, students and faculty recently gathered at the 2021 She Builds Summer Camp. The camp's mission is to expose girls to the field of construction management and...
Dr. Trina Fletcher sits down with Forbes magazine to discuss Black women in Pursuit of the Ph.D.
Having successfully navigated the Ph.D. process, Trina Fletcher and her twin sister, Tina, recently sat down with Marybeth Gasman for a Forbes magazine interview on what universities interested in matriculating Black women into their Ph.D. programs can do to boost...
S. S. Iyengar named member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
It is with great Panther Pride that we announce that S. S. Iyengar has been named a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Iyengar is an FIU Distinguished University Professor at the College of Engineering and Computing’s Knight School of Computing and...
Future of Tech Town Hall: Advancing innovations in tech education and talent development
Last month, the Knight Foundation hosted a town hall focused on advancing innovations in tech education and talent development through policy and public-private partnerships. Speakers included: Governor Deval Patrick, co-commissioner, Future of Tech Commission; former...
FIU to celebrate the real triumphs of summer graduates
FIU will celebrate the graduation of thousands of students in three outdoor ceremonies Aug. 4-6, 2021, including graduates who will be recognized as Real Triumphs Graduates for their achievements in the classroom and in their fields. “The class of 2021 has excelled...