1 School Update Report to the Industry Advisory Board April 30th, 2010

1 School Update Report to the Industry Advisory Board April 30th, 2010 Jai Navlakha, Director and Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences College of Computing and Engineering Florida International University FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23 1

2009-2010 Mid-term Outlook 2 Current external funding 3M: 3.5M expected in 09-10 Enrollment growth trend continues/accelerates: BS Computer Science Spr. ’10 Student Enrollment up by 10% from a year ago BS-IT Spr. ‘10 Student Enrollment up by 40% from a year ago PhD degrees awarded 5 in 2009-10 FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Major Achievements 3 Tenure & Promotion: Dr. Vagelis Hristidis, Associate Professor Dr. Masoud Sadjadi, Associate Professor NSF Career Award Dr. Vagelis Hristidis, “A Collaborative Adaptive Data Sharing Platform” leverages BCIN initiative School’s faculty awarded 4 NSF CAREER and 1 DOE CAREER IBM Research PhD Fellowship: Jorge Guerra 1 of 40 worldwide GMCC Top Technology Student Award Finalist: Fausto Fleitas FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

2009 - 2010 Major Objectives 4 Conclude Director Search and hire Fall 2010 Pursue Federal Opportunities in areas such as Healthcare, Energy, and Disaster Mitigation Complete MS in IT approval process and start program Fall 2010 or Spring 2011 Prepare for CS undergraduate Accreditation FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Research Funding – 12 months 5 3/25/10, National Science Foundation, CAREER: A Collaborative Adaptive Data Sharing Platform, Vagelis Hristidis 3/18/10, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement, Naphtali Rishe, Shu-Ching Chen, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li 3/9/10, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement for III-CXT-Small: Information Discovery on Domain Data Graphs, Vagelis Hristidis 1/8/10, National Science Foundation, Streamlining High-End Computing with Software Persistent Memory, Raju Rangaswami, Jason Liu, and Ming Zhao 12/21/09, BBN Technologies Corp., PrimoGENI-Developing GENI Aggregates for Real- Time Large-Scale Network Simulation, Jason Liu 9/18/09, National Science Foundation, III: Travel Support for US-Based Students to Attend the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), Vagelis Hristidis 9/1/09, National Science Foundation, EAGER: Collaborative Research: Cross-Domain Knowledge Transformation via Matrix Decompositions, Tao Li FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Research Funding – 12 months (2) 6 8/31/09, National Science Foundation, HECURA: Collaborative Research: QoS-driven Storage Management for High-end Computing Systems, Ming Zhao 8/27/09, National Science Foundation, Gene Functional Prediction from Protein-Protein Interaction Data, Tao Li 8/18/09, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Non-negative Matrix Factorizations for Data Mining: Foundations, Capabilities, and Algorithms, Tao Li 8/10/09, National Science Foundation, TIE: UF-FIU inter-I/UCRC collaboration to explore autonomic computing for the TerraFly server system, Naphtali Rishe 7/31/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to MRI: Development of a High-Performance Database Appliance for Geospatial Applications, Naphtali Rishe 7/9/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to CAREER: Immersive Large-Scale Network Simulations, Jason Liu 7/7/09, US Department of Education, Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need Fellowships in Computer Science at Florida International University, Masoud Milani, Peter Clarke, Xudong He, Christine Lisetti FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Research Funding – 12 months (3) 7 7/2/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement for CAREER: Mining Log Data for Computing System Management, Tao Li 6/29/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement for Building Efficient, Native Storage Systems for Semi-structured Data, Raju Rangaswami, Vagelis Hristidis 6/5/09, National Science Foundation, I/UCRC Fundamental Research Supplement: Visualization of Geospatial Time Series and Dynamic Objects, Naphtali Rishe 5/29/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to Investigation of Geospatial Data Management on MapReduce Platform, Naphtali Rishe, Vagelis Hristidis, Raju Rangaswami 5/1/09, Harvard University / NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Genetic Analysis of Toxinogenesis in Vibrio Cholerae, Giri Narasimhan 4/20/09, National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement, Naphtali Rishe, Shu-Ching Chen, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li 4/10/09, US Department of Homeland Security, Information Delivery and Knowledge Discovery for Hurricane Disaster Management, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Collaborative Projects/Proposals 8 Health Information Technology Initiative (HIT) Events: (More from Dr. Rishe) CONNECT Code-A-Thon: Develop open source software gateway that supports health information exchange using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) standards. Health Information Exchange Executive Sessions: The Executive Sessions will introduce the audience to the benefits, challenges, and opportunities for Health Information Exchange (HIE) Transportation (More from Dr. Giri) MDX / FIU Advanced Bus Transportation System Study CIS participation in current and later stages to develop Advanced Transportation Oriented Development at FIU and MIA Business Continuity Information Network Update Public-Private Partnership Kick-off meeting in Palm Beach County 140 attendees BCIN is major initiative of Partnership Received significant visibility and interest in business community FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

MS in IT Proposal 9 The Master of Science in Information Technology program has been approved by the Faculty Senate of the University, the University Graduate School, and Academic Affairs On June 4, 2010, it will be considered by the University Board of Trustees for approval. If approved, we will begin offering the MSIT curriculum in either the Fall semester of 2010 or Spring 2011 2-3 New Tracks: HIT, Disaster Management, Media and Entertainment FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

School Developments 10 Carnegie-Style Doctoral Program Review Very successful visit by Dr. Larry Landweber external reviewer BS in CS Degree Program ABET Accreditation process Draft Report ready for Submission June 2010 Director Search Complete Hiring in May, start in Fall 2010 Dr. Kleanthis Psarris- UTSA Dr. Prabir Bhattacharya– U Cincinnati Dr. Mark Weiss – FIU School move--- No decision Board Member Lecture: Harald Braun, CEO/President Aviat FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

FIU High School Programming Competition 11 Sponsored by Ultimate Software 19 Teams First Place: Ocoee High Second Place: G. Holmes Braddock Third Place: Miami Palmetto Looking for sponsor for next year FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23

Discussion and Feedback 12 Thank you for your support! Let’s make 2010-2011 a year of opportunity for CS/IT students FIU CIS Industry Advisory Board 04/11/23