CSE Undergrad News

RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Lab at Virginia Tech, would like to advertise several funded MS, PhD, and Post Doc positions for team THOR of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.  Team THOR is one of seven funded Track-A teams worldwide tasked with designing, building, and testing our own disaster response robot.  Our team is looking for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in the areas of:

Software Design

Dynamics and Controls

Robotics Simulation

Electronics Design / Embedded Systems

Mechanical Design and Fabrication

Interested applicants can find more information at www.romela.org/main/Research_Positions and can email a CV to romela@vt.edu.

Thank you,

Dr. Dennis Hong

Virginia Tech Robotics and Mechanisms Lab

The Marcus Autism Center, in conjunction with the Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, is offering the Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience, and we are interested in recruiting the highly qualified students in University of Washington’s Computer Science and Engineering Department. Students who will receive a bachelor’s degree by June 2013 will be eligible for the position.  The fellowships were previously sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center, and students can find further details at:

simonsfellowship.org

 Deadline: January 7, 2013

The Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience will commence in July 2013 and is 2 years in duration. The training experience will involve developing methods for the analysis of visual scanning and eye-tracking data, computational models of visual salience, and data visualization techniques, all with the aim of advancing the understanding of autism and efforts at early diagnosis.

The Psych Department is looking for a student with an interest in CS and Psych to participate in undergraduate research. Interested students should be able to commit at least 6 hours per week for 3 quarters. You’d most likely register under PSYCH 499 (CR/NC).

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We are looking for a student who is proficient with computers to help us with data analysis on a number of projects related to cancer and cognition. Most of our projects involve analyzing data from computer programs. We would like a student knowledgeable in computer programming to help us with this data analysis. Most of our tasks use E-Prime, so knowledge of E-Prime is preferred. In addition, qualified student would have knowledge of computer language and some experience in programming. Psych 209 is preferred, but not required. This is a great opportunity for a psychology student looking to get involved in the computerized aspects of psychology research. E-Prime is widely used in psychological research, so an understanding of this software would be extremely beneficial to the student. In addition, the student will become very knowledgeable about data analysis, especially analysis of data from computerized tasks. PLEASE NOTE: We work out of the Seattle VA and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Therefore, the student would be required to have reliable transportation to both of these campuses.

More info:

http://web.psych.washington.edu/psych.php#ProjectID=525&p=334

Open to both undergrads & grads, the Graduate School Office of Fellowships & Awards is offering a webinar for students interested in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) on Monday, Oct. 8, 4:30pm. Registration and basic program information is below.

Graduating seniors and alumni who plan to apply to and begin graduate student by next fall, as well as graduate students in their first year of graduate study or at the beginning of their second year of graduate study (with some limitations) may be eligible to apply.

The NSF GRFP is open to students in a wide variety of fields, including many social science fields as well as STEM. Eligible fields include:
Chemistry
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Engineering
Geosciences
Life Sciences
Materials Research
Mathematical Sciences
Physics & Astronomy
Psycholoby
Social Sciences (many fields, including but not limited to Archaeology, Anthropology, Communications, Economics, Geography, International Relations, Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Planning, etc.)
STEM Education & Learning Research

Thanks,

Robin Chang
Assistant Director
Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards
Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity
University of Washington
171 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352803
Seattle, WA 98195-2803
206-543-2603   FAX:  206-616-4389
http://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, UW webinar:   Monday, Oct. 8, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Dear Undergrads,

The Mary Gates Endowment for Students is currently accepting scholarship applications. Mary Gates scholarships provide $4,000 ($2,000 per quarter for two quarters) for students to pursue leadership or research projects of their own choosing and design with guidance from a mentor. Previous recipients have come from all fields of study, including the arts, humanities, social sciences and STEMM.

Mary Gates scholarships benefit students in the current academic year, and are open to all UW undergraduate students regardless of class year, major or residency status. Students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses are all encouraged to apply. Deadlines are coming up soon, so students should begin the application process and attend an information session and application workshop.

Information Sessions
10/1, 1:30p – Leadership Scholarships
10/1, 2:30p – Research Scholarships
10/2, 2:30p – Leadership Scholarships
10/2, 3:30p – Research Scholarships
10/3, 12:30p – Leadership Scholarships
10/3, 1:30p – Research Scholarships
10/4, 3:30p – Leadership Scholarships
10/4, 4:30p – Research Scholarships

Application Workshops
10/9, 4:00-6:00p – Leadership Scholarships
10/10, 4:00-6:00p – Research Scholarships

Deadlines
10/15, 5:00p – Leadership Applications DUE
10/19, 5:00p – Research Applications DUE

All information sessions and application workshops will be held on the Seattle campus in the Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity (EXPD) in Mary Gates Hall room 171. Another round of applications will be accepted in Winter quarter, but it’s good for students to start planning now! More information and the application login can be found on our website, expd.uw.edu/mge.

Email mgates@uw.edu with any questions.

Many thanks,
April Wilkinson
Adviser & Program Coordinator
Mary Gates Endowment for Students

Jeff Bilmes bilmes@ee.washington.edu	11:08 AM (57 minutes ago)
to cs-ugrads

I am looking to hire two undergraduates for two separate research
positions in machine learning and big data.

The first position involves computer vision and big data. The student
must have a background in web-design and also ideally some experience
with Amazon Turk. We intend to create an interactive website where the
workers can view and select images from a set of images in an
interactive manner. This would require some server level application
design, like asp.net or it’s equivalents along with using the amazon
turk API. There is also opportunity to participate in the underlying
research involving big data and machine learning, with the goal of a
submission to a top-tier computer vision conference.

The second position is for research involving big time-series data, in
particular speech utterances. You will join a team of two graduate
students and two professors on a project that involves new methods to
improve speech recognition accuracy and computational feasibility. We
will be investigating a number of advanced machine learning methods,
and the end goal is, like the above, a number of conference and
journal publications.

Both positions offer a great chance to get involved in exciting new
research. If you are interested in either of these positions, please
send email to:

Prof. Jeff Bilmes <bilmes+ugrad@uw.edu>

Please do the following:
1) indicate which position you are interested in in the subject
by including keyword either “vision”, “time series”, or “both”
2) Attach your resume
3) Attach a copy of your academic transcript

The positions will remain open until filled.

Course Opportunity this Autumn: HCDE 496/596
Directed Research: Remotely Assessing the User Experience

We are looking for CSE students to help us develop an open source
software toolkit (WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely
assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring
users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact
with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us
develop our toolkit.

Autumn 2012 activities that would be of interest to CSE students include:

PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, Drupal theming)
Quality assurance testing

Individual students will drive the development and testing of a
feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a
senior graduate student and faculty member.

Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5
credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or
HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on
average, three hours of effort per credit per week. We will meet
weekly on Tuesdays from 3:30-5:00. Interested students should send a
short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining
their interest in the group and suggesting what software development
strengths they could contribute to the group.

Thank you,

Jan

Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp

You are invited to evaluate a tool for verifying the absence of bugs in software.

Participants will spend 2 – 4 1/2 hours working through a tutorial, taking a short comprehension quiz, using the verification tool, and answering a questionnaire. Each participant that completes the study will be given a $60 Amazon gift certificate. The study will take place at the Paul Allen Center at the University of Washington.

If you are over 18 and have completed CSE 331 (or its equivalent), you may be eligible to participate. The risks associated with study are consistent with the risks of regular computer use, including but not limited to: ergonomic risk, and possible frustration when learning and performing the computer task.

This study is being conducted in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. Your participation in this research is voluntary, and you are free to refuse to participate or quit the experiment at any time.

If you have questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Todd Schiller by email attws@cs.washington.edu.

Undergraduate research assistant

Description: Professor Tyler McCormick (http://www.stat.washington.edu/~tylermc) and colleagues are seeking an undergraduate research assistant to perform tasks which facilitate research in statistical/machine learning, social network analysis, and Bayesian statistics.  The position is flexible, with an expected commitment of on average 10-15  hours per week, and will include activities such as coding, generating statistical graphics, proofreading manuscripts, and compiling literature reviews. This position is an excellent opportunity to get first-hand experience with the research process.  The position would start immediately and continue through the summer with the possibility of extension through the academic year.

Requirements: Coursework through intermediate-level statistics courses.  Must also have experience programming in R  *and* at least one of Python, Java, or C.

Application: Please email Professor McCormick (mcclass@u.washington.edu) with a CV/resume (listing your coursework and programming experience) and a writing sample (2-3 pages in English).  Please also state whether or not you are eligible for work study.