CSE Undergrad News

Student info page for the Allen School career fair:

https://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2018/studentinfo

Welcome to the second full week of the fall quarter! Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for more information on upcoming events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, October 9^th, 5:45-7:00 p.m., ECE125
THINK BEYOND THE VALLEY: Convoy tech talk

“Not a tech talk” tech talk. Learn more about the company from one of its engineers.

Tuesday, October 9^th, 6-7:45 p.m., SIG134
Airbnb Technical Interview Workshop

We invite you to join us for a technical interview workshop led by one of our own engineers. This workshop will dive deep into Airbnb interview best practices, as well as walk through a sample problem similar to our technical interviews.

RSVP: https://uwairbnbworkshop2018.splashthat.com/#rsvp

Wednesday, October 10^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. Interested in learning more about Nutanix, our interview process, or just want to stop by and say hello? We’ll be hosting office hours today! Stop by and learn more about our mission!

Wednesday, October 10^th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Atrium
Resume Review Workshop

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few printed copies of your resume – anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine. Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more recruiters or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small. These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the upcoming recruiting fair on October 23^rd and 24^th.

Wednesday, October 10^th, 6 p.m., ECE125
Nutanix tech talk

More information to follow.

Thursday, October 11^th, 6-7 p.m., ECE125
Extrahop Networks Tech Talk

More information to follow

Thursday, October 11^th, 5:30-7 p.m., 134 Mary Gates Hall
AI at Bloomberg

Decision makers across the global finance industry look to Bloomberg to deliver timely political, business and financial information and insight. Today, a large part of this insight is derived using artificial intelligence (AI). The practice of AI at Bloomberg presents its researchers with the unique challenges associated with building low-latency, and highly-available, systems to find needles within haystacks of data. in this talk, we will introduce the wide variety of problems that we solve using AI at Bloomberg and provide a brief overview of the cutting-edge AI research that our teams have recently published.

Friday, October 5^th, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., table in the Atrium
Deloitte meet & greet

Stop by and chat with team members from Deloitte and the opportunities at Deloitte.

Friday, October 5^th, 1-3 p.m., table in the Atrium
Microsoft office hours

Stop by and chat with team members from Microsoft.

The Resume Review Workshop will be held Wednesday, October 10^th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium.

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few printed copies of your resume – anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine. Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more recruiters or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small. These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the upcoming recruiting fair on October 23^rd and 24^th.

All CSE undergraduates who are considering pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2018-19 (and this should be you!) should not miss our Allen School sponsored Industry Panel.

Tuesday, October 2^nd, 5:30-6:30 p.m., GUG220

Industry Panel Session

Come hear from folks that recently graduated from the same program you’re currently in! This is an opportunity to learn from their experiences and gain insight into how you may want to focus your remaining time in the department to move towards your career goals. Bring your questions and your curiosity!

Welcome to the fall quarter! Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for current events such as tech talks and other industry related events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, October 2^nd, 5:30-6:30 p.m., GUG220

Industry Panel Session
Come hear from folks that recently graduated from the same program you’re currently in! This is an opportunity to learn from their experiences and gain insight into how you may want to focus your remaining time in the department to move towards your career goals. Bring your questions and your curiosity!

Wednesday, October 3^rd, 11 a.m.-12 noon, table in Atrium

Open Venture Office Hour
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, October 3^rd, 5-7 p.m., Commons

Startup Confidential Talk Series
Reminder for this event! Please do RSVP soon so we can make sure we have enough food for everyone!

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the inaugural “Startup Confidential” dinner and speaker series, Wednesday October 3rd at 5-7PM. This monthly informal speaker series focuses on real stories from the Seattle world of startups, from ideation, to spinning up a new company, to operating, to exiting. We’ll be inviting speakers with a variety of experiences, from rocket ships, to exploded rocket ships, to acquihires.

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 first speaker will be Benn Bollay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennbollay/), CTO-in-residence at the AI2 Incubator in Wallingford. Benn co-founded Union Bay Networks, where he worked as CTO and led the technical team into an acquisition by Apple.

Thursday, October 4^th, 2:30-3:30 p.m., table in the Atrium

Madrona office hours
Matthew Witt from Madrona will be here to answer any questions you may have.

Thursday, October 4^th, 6-7 p.m., EEB125

Amazon Tech Talk
More information to follow

Friday, October 5^th, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., table in the Atrium

Deloitte meet & greet
Stop by and chat with team members from Deloitte and the opportunities at Deloitte.

All CSE undergraduates who are considering pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2018-19 (and this should be you!) should not miss our Allen School sponsored Industry Panel.

Day: Tuesday, October 2^nd
Time: 5:30-6:30 pm
Place: Guggenheim 220 No rsvp needed!

This event will feature a panel of CSE graduates and HR reps who will provide important information on the steps CSE undergraduates need to take in the coming months to land the internship or job of their dreams. Student questions are very much encouraged. You should leave this event with a much better understanding of the timing and direction of your upcoming job search.

At Nutanix, we are looking for the next group of innovative and passionate students to join our family. Interested in learning more about Nutanix, our interview process, or just want to stop by and say hello? We’ll be hosting office hours today! Stop by and learn more about our mission!

When: TODAY! Wednesday 9/26
Time: 12pm – 3pm
Where: Atrium in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering

We hope to see you there!

Please stop by the Google welcome table — currently located in the Atrium in front of reception. Two of our amazing Allen School alums are available to answer your questions or just generally chat. (There are also some amazing cookies….)

The team will be here 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today!

Be sure to check the undergraduate advising calendar for events like this each week: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Dear students!

This year the Allen School will send students to both the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Funding from CSE will include airfare, hotel (shared), and conference registration. Along with sending both undergraduate and graduate students to the conferences for personal and professional development, the Allen School is sponsoring booths for PhD student recruitment.

Read on to learn more about each conference and to apply for funding to attend!

ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
September 19-22, 2018 — Orlando, FL
Apply for Allen School TAPIA funding by Wednesday June 27

The goal of the Tapia Conferences is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to:

• Celebrate the diversity that exists in computing;
• Connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, and gender so as to create communities that extend beyond the conference;
• Obtain advice from and make contacts with computing leaders in academia and industry;
• Be inspired by great presentations and conversations with leaders with common backgrounds.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
September 26-28 — Houston, TX
Apply for Allen School GRACE HOPPER funding by Wednesday June 27

Grace Hopper is the largest gathering of technical women in the world, an exciting celebration of diversity in tech, and a fantastic academic and professional opportunity. GHC features professional and personal development workshops, a career fair, social activities, and research presentations. Past attendees have generally found GHC incredibly valuable for connecting with peers and industry, exploring grad school, and feeling inspired in their CS work.

Please apply for either conference funding by Wednesday June 27, 2018. We will notify those selected to attend by Friday June 29th.

-Raven & Elise

Hello Allen School Students!

DubHacks is hosting a three day speaker series next week, May 22nd – 24th, with awesome local leaders in technology and entrepreneurship like Joseph Sirosh the VP of AI at Microsoft, Dona Sarkar the Head of Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program, and Salil Jain the CEO of Stripes39, an incubator behind companies like Cut.com!

May 22nd, 6:00 – 7:00 pm, EEB 125: Joseph Sirosh

May 23rd, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, EEB 125: Dona Sarkar

May 24th, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, EEB 125: Salil Jain

There will be free food! You can can sign up for the event at https://www.facebook.com/events/1557980257634642/, plus learn more information at http://dubhacks.co/talks!