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Michael Robinson, Ph.D. Candidate
School of Universal Computing, Construction & Engineering Education
Florida International University
Academic Advisor : Dr. Stephanie Lunn
michael.robinson@fiu.edu


  Education
  • May 8th, 2023 - Ph.D. Candidate, Engineering and Computing Education
    School of Universal Computing, Construction & Engineering Education, Florida International University
  • November 28th, 2012 - Ph.D. Candidate, School of Computing and Information Science Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA. Area of concentration: Bioinformatics Computing
  • Summer 2007. Ph.D. Student, School of Computing and Information Science Florida International University, Miami. Area of concentration: Bioinformatics Computing
  • April 2007 Florida International University, Miami
    Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Graduated with Honors
  • Aug 2005, Florida International University, Miami
    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science
  • 1980-1996, April 1996 Miami Dade College
    A. A., Management Information Systems, Graduated with Honors

  Books
  • Operating Systems for IT
    Michael Robinson     ISBN 978-1-4652-8990-2     Kendall Hunt Publishing    August 18th, 2016

  Publications Reviewer
  • SIGCSE 2017
    Reviewer of three double blind Publications. September 2016

  Work Experience
  • April 2014 - Present, Founder of Hardware Lab FIU ECS256
  • January 2014 - Present, FIU SCIS Liaison to Dade and Broward Counties Public, Charter and Private High Schools - Dual Enrollment Program.
  • August 2013 - Present, Full time Faculty at Florida International University, Computing and Information Sciences.
  • January 2012 - Present, MDC - Teaching at Department of Computer Information Systems.
  • January 2011 - Present, FIU - Teaching at School of Computer Science and School of Engineering.
  • Summer 2005 - Present, Computer Science Graduate Research.
  • August 1984 - Present, Digital Micro Systems Corp. President-Owner.
    Computer Consulting Company servicing the Insurance Industry providing computer Networking and Telephone systems, Computer and Software assembly and maintenance. Training Customer's employees.
  • February 1984-July 1984, Yakon International Miami, General Manager.
    Open up Miami office representing Fujitsu Micro Electronics to distribute and service the new Fujitsu Micro Computers to compete with the recently released IBM PC.
  • 1983 Miami Dade Community College.
    Lab Instructor, Introduction to Computer Science (Basic). Weekly grading of programs, and in-class discussions of programs in the Computer Science Laboratory. Two semesters.
  • 1981-1984, Miami Dade Community College, Accounting Department.

  Workshops (Weekly and FREE)
  • Cyber Security Level 1. No previous knowledge is required, however a lot of hard work, commitment and patience is required to succeed in this field. We also cover material not included in the book, such as Operating Systems and detailed hands-on Hardware knowledge.
  • Cyber Security Level 2. Requires a good command of Level 1 and more hard work, commitment and patience.
  • Hardware Labs. Using actual hardware, we learn to build Servers and Clients, Install and Manage Operating Systems and Virtual Machines, Setup Access Points to create wireless connections, Create Hardware Firewalls, Manage Switches, Make Network and Telephone Cables, and how to create and manage other required hardware.
  • Software Labs. In our servers, built and maintained by our students, we offer multiple Virtual Servers running multiple Operating Systems, to our Cyber Security students who apply their theorical knowledge to do PEN-TESTING, in Red and Blue Teams.
  • A+ 1001 workshops for certification
  • A+ 1002 workshops for certification

  Created Classes
  • IDS 3917 VIP. Cyber Security Level 1. Can replace one Undergratudate IT Elective class.
  • IDS 3917 VIP. Hands-on Hardware. This course is designed to prepare students with the required knowledge to design, build and install the hardware and software needs of an organization. Can replace one Undergraduate IT Elective class.
  • IT Fundamentals Embrace Project.

  Awards
  • Service Excellence Award Nomination, 2018
  • FIU Community Award Nomination, 2018
  • Cyberbridges CIARA $5,000.00 Fellowship, 2008
  • MBRS Graduate Research Assistantship, 2007

  Grants
  • Senior Investigator. September 16th, 2016
    NSF Proposal 1643965 Collaborative Research: Florida IT Pathways to Success (Flit-Path).
    This is a five-year five million dollar collaborative grant with Metro Consortium partners UCF and USF.
    FIU is the lead institution and our share is 1.94 million dollars. Dr. Mark Weiss is the lead PI and Dr. Zahra Hazari of the STEM Transformation Institute and Department of Teaching And Learning is the co-PI. We also had invaluable support and assistance from Dr. Laird Kramer and AIM. This grant provides one million dollars of scholarships for financially needy FIU students, along with support to conduct CS education research.

  Honors
  • Eta Kappa Nu Honors Society member, 2007 - Present
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society member, 1996

  Research Interests
  • Cyber Security, Virtual Machines, Bioinformatics, Genomic Databases, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Distributed Systems.

  Research Experience
  • 2013: Developed a framework to process raw DNA, RNA, Proteins into a new Data Structure, containing sub-sequences of any size, to be used as input data source to develop new applications for further Research.
  • 2012: Developing algorithms and data structures for Bioinformatics research with my advisor Dr. S.S. Iyengar, September 2012
  • 2012: Continue on Hadoop , MapReduce using Virtual Machine Networks
  • 2011: Start working on Hadoop , MapReduce using Virtual Machine Networks
  • 2010: Start working on VmWare, VirtualBox, Fedora, Ubuntu to implement Virtual Machine networks
  • 2010: Start working on Distributed Systems and Virtual Machines with Dr. Ming Zaho as my advisor, December 2009.
  • 2009: Start working on the pseudoNEXUS website, July 2009.
  • 2009: Start developing this website to allow public access to my research.
  • 2009: Developed a modified bioBucket algorithm to create standard indexes for DNA sequences and Amino Acid sequences.
  • 2009: Developed a new (unpublished) method to search for Biological probes in lower and upper case DNA sequences, and upper case Amino Acid sequences called searchProbes.
  • 2009: Developed the bioBucket algorithm to create indexes to find Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences and a new (unpublished) method to search for Biological probes in genomes called searchDProbes.
  • 2009: May 13-16, ISBRA 2009 (International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications) Poster Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters
  • 2009: Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters, unpublished paper. Result of the work done during the CyberBridges fellowship.
  • 2008: Developed programs to parse NCBI genomic data from fasta to Excel and text files.
  • 2008: CyberBridges fellowship. Developed software based on my search engine algorithms, to run on parallel computing systems. Assisted by a graduate student from The Chinese Academy of Science, and an undergraduate student from FIU.
  • 2008: Finished designing and creating a genomics web based database containing five strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This database is currently located at http://biorg.cis.fiu.edu/pseudoNEXUS/
  • 2007: Created and implemented repeat search algorithms using Suffix Arrays for large genomic sequences.
  • 2007: Research Assistant. During Summer 2007 I worked on WDK from the University of Pennsylvania, a Web GUI system for GUS The Genomics Unified Schema, installed and tested at Florida International University.
  • 2006: Research Assistant. Worked from May 2006-2007 with GUS The Genomics Unified Schema from the University of Pennsylvania documenting the schemas, loading data methods, expanding the schemas, and resolving multiple problems in this system.
  • 2006: Research Assistant. Improvements to SwissProt's ps_scan software.

  Publications
  • Discovering Unknown Genes. Michael Robinson. 31st Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, Crowne Plaza New Orleans Airport, Kenner, LA, USA. April 30th--May 2nd, 2015 .

  Technical Reports
  • Discovering Unknown Genes Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2015-01-20-3 Michael Robinson, School of Computer Information Science Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA, January 20, 2015.
  • Discovery and Annotation of Repeats, Signatures, and Patterns in Genomic Sequences Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2015-01-20-2 Michael Robinson, School of Computer Information Science Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA, January 20, 2015.
  • GenomePro - Processing Genomic Files Of All Sizes Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2015-01-20-1, Michael Robinson, School of Computer Information Science Florida International University Miami, Florida, USA, January 20, 2015.
  • Finding Repeats and Signatures in DNA Sequences Using MPI Clusters Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2009-04-02. (1){mrobi002, csilv003, sadjadi, giri} @cs.fiu.edu; School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, FL 33199. (2)lgy@cnic.cn Computer Network Information Center Chinese Academy of Sciences 4, 4th South Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian District Beijing, China P.O. Box 349 (100190), Michael Robinson(1), Guangyuan Liu(2), Camilo Silva(1), S. Masoud Sadjadi(1), Giri Narasimhan(1), May 2009.
  • Grid Service Composition in BPEL for Scientific Applications. Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2007-08-01, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University,11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, Onyeka Ezenwoye, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Ariel Carey, and Michael Robinson, August 2007.
  • Orchestrating WSRF-based Grid Services. Onyeka Ezenwoye, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Ariel Carey and Michael Robinson. Technical Report FIU-SCIS-2007-04-01, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, April 2007.

  Posters
  My Work Used as Reference
  Presentations
  • Pattern Processing and Searching in RAM, March 2008
  • Pattern Processing and Searching in RAM, January 2008
  • Engineering a Compressed Suffix Tree Implementation, October 2007
  • High Speed Pattern Searching In RAM, June 2007
  • Inverted Files Versus Signature Files for Text Indexing, May 2007
  • Latency Management in Storage Systems, March 2007
  • Proteus, a Grid based Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Bioinformatics, Architecture and Experiments, July 2006
  • Detecting Sequence-Structure Patterns in Proteins with Multiple Domains Michael Robinson and Juan C. Martinez, April 18, 2006
  • A Brief Personal Computer History, March 2006
  • Digi-Store, a Web Based Store, June 2002

  Software and Databases
  • Genomepro Michael Robinson 2015, 2016.
    We present a data processing framework aimed at facilitating the discovery of unknown genes in any genome by extracting DNA, RNA or Protein sub-sequences of any length to execute a variety of genome applications.
    Using our GenomePro framework we process raw input data files of any size and in multiple formats such as NGS, FASTA, and GBK by extracting all sub-sequences of lengths selected by the end user. The only limitations are the computer storage size and/or operating system restrictions. Our framework can be applied to any life form genome.
  • pseudoNEXUS Michael Robinson, Camilo Valdes, and Giri Narasimhan, March 2008. Integrated genomic database for 5 strains of the bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.


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