CSE Undergrad News

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday, November 5, 6:00-7:00 p.m. – ECE 125

Starbucks tech talk

Join us for a Tech Talk with leaders and prior interns from Starbucks!
Monday,November 5, 2018
6:00to 7:30pm
ECE125

Network with Starbucks leaders, prior interns & recruiters! You’ll learn about Tech Innovation, Starbucks and the Intern Program, a mini tech deep dive, and directly from prior interns’ experiences. Come join us! Dinner is provided. To apply for our 2019 Summer Internships, visit starbucks.com/careers/find-a-job/internships and drop off a copy of your resume at the info session.

Tuesday, October 30^th, 5:45-7:15 p.m. – ECE 125

Think Outside the Valley: Blue Origin tech talk

WHAT WE DO: At Blue Origin we envision a future where millions of people are living and working in space. We are developing human spaceflight systems, including reusable launch vehicles and rocket engines that will dramatically lower the cost of access to space. Internships and full-time opportunities available.

Wednesday, November 7^th, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon – table in Atrium

Open Venture office hours

Joe Wallin (startup lawyer) of Carney Badley Spellman, and Randall Lucas (venture investor) of Voyager Capital, will resume their open venture office hour first Wednesdays at 11 am in the CSE atrium. Any school affiliates with an interest in starting or joining a startup company are welcome to join to discuss things like what it takes to form a corporation, how to raise investor capital, what kind of roles there are for CSE grads in startups, etc.

Wednesday, November 7^th, 12:00-3:00 p.m. – table in Atrium

Nutanix office hours

At Nutanix, we are looking for the next group of innovative and passionate students to join our family. We’ll be hosting a meet & greet today! Stop by and learn more about our mission!

Wednesday, November 7^th, 5:00-7:00 p.m. – Gates Commons

Startup Confidential Talk

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the 2nd Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Wednesday November 7th at 5-7PM. Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food.

Our second speaker will be Stewart Fortier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-fortier-7422b829/), the current CTO of Banzai, a seattle startup on Lake Union. Stewart is a serial entrepreneur (starting in college) and he is going to talk about his prior company, MassRoots, the 2nd successful cannabis-tech startup in US!

Thursday, November 8^th, 6:00-8:15 p.m.

Mock technical interviews

To participate, you must be registered and received a confirmation email from Kim Nguyen.

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the 2nd Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Wednesday November 7th at 5-7PM 🎉🗣!

Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food🍽🍽🍽.

Our second speaker will be Stewart Fortier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-fortier-7422b829/), the current CTO of Banzai, a seattle startup on Lake Union. Stewart is a serial entrepreneur (starting in college) and he is going to talk about his prior company, MassRoots, the 2nd successful cannabis-tech startup in US!

Bio

Stewart Fortier is the CTO at Banzai, a 60-person bootstrapped startup in Seattle. Before joining Banzai, he was a CTO-In-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence where he helped to launch a leading company in the speech synthesis space.

Previously, he served as the co-founder & CTO at MassRoots, which is now a public company. He has built and led world-class engineering teams from the first line of code through a successful exit, as well as investing in or advising over a dozen startups.

Abstract

Stewart will be speaking about his adventures going from self-taught programmer to one of the youngest CTOs of a public company ever.

Building a company remains a fairly opaque process and is nothing like it’s portrayed in the movies. Stewart will be sharing anecdotes that will hopefully help illuminate what the actual experience of starting a company is like, and, if nothing else, will be entertaining.

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Michael Jae-Yoon Chung

Graduate Student

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

November is here and ACM’s annual Fall Fest is back!

Join us at the HUB South Ballroom on November 16th for a night full of games, food, friends, and fun, carnival-style! 🎪🎢🎡🎠🍿

Compete in classic carnival games and events throughout the night! Hungry? Snacks and drinks will be provided. Grab some snacks, meet new friends and talk while the DJ provides music in the background. Stop by the photo booth to capture your fun. There’s something for everyone to enjoy!

RSVP’s:

This year, RSVP’s for all attendees are MANDATORY. Walk-ins will NOT be accepted. +1s will be accepted on a first come, first served basis and may be capped, so please register ASAP.

Registration will be done on eventbrite this year. Please save the QR code you receive in the email as we will be scanning your QR code before entry.

Follow this link to register. Please RSVP Friday, November 9th at 5:00PM. 

Additional Instructions:

• This event is free for ACM members and their +1s. If you are unsure whether you are a member, you can register first and we will follow up with you.
• All attendees must have no Snack Overflow debt. Please swipe your card in the ACM lounge to check your account balance. If your balance is below zero, Venmo @uwacm or use the cash box. After you have cleared your debt, update your account manually using the kiosk.
• If you are 21+ and would like to access the beer garden, please bring your government-issued ID for check-in.

If you have any questions, please contact us at acm-officers@cs.washington.edu.

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday, October 29^th, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., 2^nd floor landing

Google office hours

Monday, October 29^th, 6:00-7:00 p.m. – ECE 125

Google tech talk
Software Engineer, Shikhar Agarwal, will talk about TensorFlow™, an open source software library for high performance numerical computation. We will leave time for Q&A, and food will be provided so come hungry!

RSVP: tinyurl.com/uGradTechTalk

Tuesday, October 30^th, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – ECE 125

Think Outside the Valley: Kernel Labs tech talk
Kernel Labs is a technology incubator with deep experience in big data and machine learning. We build innovative companies to tackle big challenges in new and existing markets.

Tuesday, October 30^th, 6:00-8:15 p.m.

Mock technical interviews
To participate, you must be registered and received a confirmation email from Kim Nguyen.

Wednesday, October 31^st, 12:00-3:00 p.m. – table in Atrium

Nutanix meet & greet
At Nutanix, we are looking for the next group of innovative and passionate students to join our family. We’ll be hosting a meet & greet today! Stop by and learn more about our mission!

Friday, November 2^nd, 12:00-3:00 p.m., table in the Atrium

Amazon office hours
Get your tech recruiting questions answered! Claire from Amazon Student Programs will be available to answer your application questions. Feel free to stop by if you would like resume help or have specific questions on the Amazon application process.

Please join the team at 6:00 p.m. in ECE125 today – 10/25.

There will be food, drinks, and a Q&A session to learn more about ClassPass! For more information, please email rrosen@classpass.com

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Our very own professor Su-In Lee, who works on novel machine learning techniques for biology and precision medicine, has been selected to deliver a prestigious New Investigator Lecture by UW Medicine next Wednesday, 10/31. Su-In will talk about her efforts to develop explainable artificial intelligence for a wide range of applications, including treating cancer based on a patient’s own molecular profile, finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, predicting kidney disease, preventing complications during surgery, and improving our understanding of pan-cancer biology and genome biology.  Su-In’s work with grad student Scott Lundberg was just featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering, which included their paper on explainable machine learning system, Prescience, for preventing hypoxemia in patients under general anesthesia. Earlier this year, she and recent grad Safiye Celik published their work on MERGE, which uses machine learning to enable targeted treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, in Nature Communications.

NEW INVESTIGATOR LECTURE 
Su-In Lee, Ph.D. 
University of Washington 
UW Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering 
UW Associate Professor, Dept. of Genome Sciences 
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
11:00AM – 12:00 PM (PST) | HST 739, Lecture Hall 
UW Health Sciences Center (T-Wing)

LECTURE TITLE
“Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine.”
Prof. Su-In Lee is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering,
and in the Genome Sciences Department at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in
2009 in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. Before joining the UW
in 2010, she was a visiting professor in the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon
University. She has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and been named an
American Cancer Society Research Scholar. She has received a number of generous grants from the
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Cancer Society.
 
UPCOMING SCIENCE IN MEDICINE LECTURES
November 15, 2018 | Trisha Davis, Ph.D. | “Ensuring an Equal Genetic Inheritance: A Tale of Yeast, and the Effort to rebuild one of Nature’s most Complex Molecular Machines.”| Science in Medicine, Foege Auditorium (S060), Lecture Hall 1:00PM
 
For more information visit the Science in Medicine website.
Lectures are open to all faculty, staff and students. No registration required. This email was sent by the UW School of Medicine, Office of Research and Graduate Education. For questions, or to request to be added to or removed from this mailing list, please e-mail somevent@uw.edu. To request disability accommodations contact the Disability Services Offices at (206) 543-6450, ordso@uw.edu.

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday, October 22^nd, 2:30-6 p.m., HUB ballroom

Data Science Career Fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/446/announcements

Monday, October 22^nd, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., table in the Atrium

Facebook office hours – infrastructure-focused

Monday, October 22^nd, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., 2^nd floor landing

Google office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 12 noon – 3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Nutanix office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m., table in the Atrium

Disney office hours

Monday, October 22^nd, 6:00-7:00 p.m. – ECE 125

Salesforce Tech Talk – Your Cloud Application Always Fails, Yet it Still Works.

This talk will discuss when running a cloud application at scale, failures like reboots and bugs and network losses probably happen several times every day; however, this doesn’t have to be an impact for your customers. Food Provided.

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., HUB Ballroom

Allen School Established career fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/448/announcements

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – ECE 125

7^th Annual Q&A with Sift Science CEO, Jason Tan

Jason will talk about why this year was one of the most challenging years at Sift, as well as….

Tuesday, October 23^rd, 6:30-8:00 p.m. – ECE 037

Riot Games info session/tech talk

Riot alumni are here to share their journey into the games industry and their tips, tricks, lessons learned throughout their experiences. We’ll also cover aspects of the application and interview process so you’re prepared for the next step in your career!

Wednesday, October 24^th, 1:00-5:00 p.m. – Atrium

Allen School Startup/Smaller Company Recruiting Fair: https://app.thefairsapp.com/#/fair/449/announcements

Wednesday, October 24^th, 6-7 p.m. – ECE125

Airbnb tech talk

This is the perfect opportunity to learn more about Airbnb’s technical challenges and innovations, and interact with Airbnb engineers and recruiters.

RSVP here: https://airbnbuwtechtalk2018.splashthat.com/.

Wednesday, October 24^th, 6:00-7:30 p.m., ECE037

Rubrik tech talk

Rubrik delivers automated backup, recovery, archival, search, cloud, and development in a simple, scale-out platform built for hybrid cloud. Come learn more about this growing cloud data management company!

Thursday, October 25^th, 5:30-7 p.m., ECE125

ClassPass tech talk

There will be food, drinks, and a Q&A session to learn more about ClassPass!

Thursday, October 25^th, 6:30-8:30 p.m., ECE037

Beyond Limits tech talk

RSVP @ https://bit.Joinly/2J2JN9g

Friday, October 19^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.

Hello!

Just a reminder that our career fairs are this week. Student focused information about the recruiting fairs and events may be viewed at www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/studentinfo.

REMINDER: We are using The Fairs App this year. Please download the app to get information on the companies participating in all our fairs.

• Link to download the app from the Apple App Store (iPhone/iPad): https://thefairsapp.com/ios
• Link to download the app from the Google Play Store (Android): https://thefairsapp.com/android
• Search on ‘UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’ to find the links to our fairs.

Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Monday – Friday, 10-11:30 a.m. & 1:30-4 p.m. – Atrium

Pick up your name badge and lanyard

Monday, October 15^th, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Atrium

Okta Meet & Greet

Monday, October 15^th, 6 p.m. – ECE 125

Rover tech talk

We’re so excited to be speaking at UW and we’d love to meet you! Please come join us at 6pm on Monday, October 15th for dinner and a combined info session and tech talk.

We are passionate about our amazing mission — enabling more people to experience the unconditional love of a dog — and we’ll tell you all about how we’re accomplishing that. We’ll discuss our values, our culture, our marketplace, and our software. Philip Kimmey, one of our Co-Founders and Director, will talk in detail about the technical and business challenges of our newest service, Rover Now, enabling dog owners to rely on Rover to line up a perfect dog-walker at a specific time and place. Phil will also share some of the hallmarks of our engineering culture, such as how we utilize machine learning, experimentation, split testing, and data analysis to formulate data-driven decisions and strategies

Tuesday, October 16^th, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – ECE 125

Zillow tech talk
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/y7dpzrje

Wednesday, October 17^th, 6-7 p.m. – ECE125

NVIDIA tech talk

Sign Up: bit.ly/nvtalkuw 
Title: Stereo Cameras on Drones: End-to-end Deep Neura lNetworks for Reliable Depth Perception
Speaker: Nikolai Smolyanskiy

Wednesday, October 17^th, 6:30-7:30 p.m., ECE037

Think Outside the Valley: Two Sigma Quant talk

At Two Sigma, our community of scientists, technologists and academics collaborate to solve some of the most challenging economic problems.

We rely on the scientific method, rooted in hypothesis, analysis, and experimentation, to drive data-driven decisions, to manage risk, and to expand into new areas of focus. In this way, we create systematic tools and technologies to forecast the future of global markets.

If you’re interested in hearing more about the scientific method to modeling, please join our Quant Talk. There will be food and refreshments provided. Please register for a spot here. We hope to see you there!

Thursday, October 18^th, 6-7 p.m., ECE125

Microsoft Tech Talk

More information to follow

Friday, October 19^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium

Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.