We trace FIU’s early bet on AI, the rise of AI-ready engineering education, and why security research must outpace attackers. From LLM jailbreaks to drone resilience, we share how to validate tools, keep fundamentals strong, and deploy AI safely in the real world.

• FIU’s AI strategy across engineering disciplines
• Faculty journey from cybersecurity to AI-driven defense
• Research strength, funding, and emerging tech focus
• AI Summit takeaways from flood modeling to controls
• Quantum threats and post-quantum cryptography
• LLM jailbreak risks and malware generation
• Layered defense and resilience-by-design
• Teaching with AI while preserving fundamentals
• AI minor structure and discipline-specific courses
• Drone security via side-channel sensing and ML
• Adversarial ML in cyber-physical systems
• Affordability, social mobility, and ROI