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Florida International University

CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering HRD-0317692/HRD-0833093 Center Overview. Florida International University. State University in Miami, FL Opened in 1972 46,000 students in Fall 2011

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Florida International University

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  1. CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems EngineeringHRD-0317692/HRD-0833093Center Overview

  2. Florida International University • State University in Miami, FL • Opened in 1972 • 46,000 students in Fall 2011 • More than 180 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs – 9,200 graduates per year • Carnegie Research University (high research activity)

  3. CREST Faculty • PI: Naphtali Rishe • Co-PIs: MalekAdjouadi, Armando Barreto, Shu-Ching Chen, Xudong He • Affiliated Faculty: Peter Clarke, Tao Li, Christine Lisetti, Jason Liu, RajuRangaswami, S. MasoudSadjadi, Zhenyu Yang

  4. CREST External Advisory Board • Ms. Brigitte Anschuetz, WW SOA Client Engagement Director, SOA Advanced Technology, IBM SWG • Mr. Jaime Borras, CEO, Wireless Silicon Group and Senior Fellow at Motorola Mobile Devices • Mr. Ruben Bravo, Consultant at Kennetropy, LLC and former Director, Microsoft LatAm • Dr. John Ciampa, Founder, ALTA, Inc. and Pictometry, Inc. • Dr. Oscar Garcia, Professor and Founding Dean (2003-2008), College of Engineering, Univ. of North Texas • Dr. Roy Gerber, Managing Member, L3W, LLC • Dr. Abraham Kandel, Professor and Director, National Institute for Applied Computational Intelligence, University of South Florida • Dr. John A.N. Lee, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute • Dr. Tadao Murata, University Distinguished Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago • Mr. Ravi M. Ugale, Managing Director, Catalyst Financial • Mr. Daniel Wainmann, CEO, Location World

  5. CREST Mission • Excellence in multidisciplinary research • Serve as resource center for the education of underrepresented students • Driving force to increase diversity in graduate education, particularly at the Ph.D. level in computer science and electrical engineering

  6. RESEARCH THRUSTS

  7. EDUCATION OUTCOMES OVERVIEW • CREST’s programs have increased Hispanic enrollment in FIU’s PhD programs in computing from 13.3% to 22.8% • Roughly 10% of the US+Canada population of Citizen/Resident Hispanic Computer Science PhD students are enrolled in FIU’s program • 59 PhDs graduated from CREST—37% have been underrepresented minorities and 37% have been women vs. US totals are approx. 3% and 20% per year • 70 MS graduates – 49% underrepresented, 31% women Spring 2008 CREST PhD Graduates

  8. OUTREACH & RECRUITMENT Engaging Student Organizations – Retention, Networking, Support FIU Engineering & Computing Gala–outreach to 1,500 school students Programming Competitions – Recruit High School Students & Develop Programming Skills Partnering with IBM La Familia to raise awareness of IT careers

  9. RESEARCH OUTCOME OVERVIEW • $26.4M in contract & grant funding leveraged by CREST; $21.2M from NSF • $5M in in-kind donations and endowments • 350 journal and conference publications • Established partnerships with industry, government, and academia • Local, National, International

  10. Research and Education Ecosystem Leveraged from CREST NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education US Department of Education Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need NSF Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplements FIU CREST Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering Latin American Grid Consortium NSF CAREER (4 awardees) NSF SGER, EAGER, RAPID NOAA Data Visualization NSF Universal Access Assistive Technologies US Department of Energy Early Career PI NSF CCLI, HECURA, DBI, DMS, III, CCF, CNS NIH Bio informatics NSF Major Research Infrastructure (6 awards) DHS Scientific Leadership Awards

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