CSE Undergrad News

Dear CSE Students,

With the consent of Professor Levy (CSE Chair) and the department, I am conducting a NSF-funded research study entitled “Exploring the Undergraduate Experience in Computing Education.” I am seeking second-year students (or those who plan to graduate in Spring 2014) to participate.

Participation in the study is voluntary and would involve completing an in-person interview lasting for about an hour, scheduled at your convenience. All student participants will receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card for participating in the study, and may elect to continue with follow-up interviews in the next two academic years. If you are interested in participating, please respond to this email with your availability so that we can schedule a date and time for the interview. I will be on campus next week, March 5-9, and can meet during the day or early evenings.

Thank you in advance for your time and participation in this research project. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you should have any questions about the study.

Sincerely,

Dr. Laura Portnoi
Associate Professor
Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling
Email: lportnoi@csulb.edu
Phone: 562-985-7047

We are seeking outstanding and enthusiastic students to join our synthetic and systems biology team in the department of bioengineering. The research will involve developing and researching the next generation of interactive software tools in the field of systems and synthetic biology. The work will involve rebooting our simulation and analysis capabilities with particular emphasis on visualization, novel user interfaces, model reproducibility, versioning, tracking and model component repositories. Desktop tools will also be integrated with the web to enable collaborative modeling.

Prior experience of software development with Java, Javascript, OR other programming languages such as C/C++, C#,  Matlab, Python and Delphi is a must. Web development experience is a plus. A willingness to adapt and be self-motivated is essential. Familiarity with current standards and modeling efforts in systems and synthetic biology, such as SBML, SBOL and SED-ML is desirable but not essential at this stage.

Research credit is available now, with the possibility of funding in the future.

Contact  Stanley Gu, stanleygu@gmail.com

Subject: NSF-Supported Summer Research for Undergraduates

The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins
University is seeking outstanding members of the current junior
class for a summer research workshop on language engineering from
June 11 to August 7, 2012.

The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment.
Undergraduates work closely alongside more senior researchers as
part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled
for the summer to attack some problem of current interest.  The
teams and topics for summer 2012 are described here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/

We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will
encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language
technology, as it has been doing for many years.

The summer workshop provides:

* An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research
* A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology
* Mentoring by an experienced researcher
* Participation in project planning activities
* Use of a computing cluster and personal workstation
* A $5,000 stipend and $2,520 towards per diem expenses
* Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop
* Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue

Applications should be received by WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012,
INCLUDING one letter from a faculty nominator.  Apply online here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/

Applicants are evaluated only on relevant skills, employment
experience, past academic record, and the strength of letters of
recommendation.  No limitation is placed on the undergraduate
major.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

The Center for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University seeks outstanding members of the current junior class for a summer research workshop on language engineering from June 11 to August 7, 2012.

The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment. Undergraduates work closely alongside more senior researchers as part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled for the summer to attack some problem of current interest.  The teams and topics for summer 2012 are described here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/

We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language technology, as it has been doing for many years.

The summer workshop provides:
* An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research
* A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology
* Mentoring by an experienced researcher
* Participation in project planning activities
* Use of a computing cluster and personal workstation
* A $5,000 stipend and $2,520 towards per diem expenses
* Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop
* Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue

Applications should be received by WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012, INCLUDING one letter from a faculty nominator.  Apply online here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/internships/

Applicants are evaluated only on relevant skills, employment experience, past academic record, and the strength of letters of recommendation.  No limitation is placed on the undergraduate major.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

HARD WORK & LOW PAY: Opportunity to Build an Open Source EMR for a Leading Hospital in Rural India

A leading non-profit healthcare organization in rural India, JSS (www.jssbilaspur.org), is building an open-source health information system (Raxa) and is seeking a few energetic, talented programmers. In a catchment area of about 300,000 JSS operates a multi-nodal hospital, three remote village sub-centers and an extensive public health outreach program with 104 community health workers.

Its founding doctors hail from AIIMS, the premier teaching hospital in south Asia. They left their cushy positions in the city for a life of toiling in a challenging rural environment where severe malnutrition, multiple drug resistent TB and leprosy are common.   To further their vision of high-quality healthcare in resource-poor environments, JSS has set forth the ambitious goal of transitioning from its current paper-based recordkeeping system to a cloud-based digital Health Information System.  This project will undoubtedly benefit tens of thousands of people in the near term and many more in the long term.

This project not only involves building a health information system for JSS, using a modified data model of the robust and field-tested OpenMRS platform (www.openmrs.org), but also making this system modular, extensible, freely and widely available for other organizations to implement as easily as possible in the future.

We need your help!  We are designing the system to be completely cross-platform and are prioritizing the mobile device; users interact with the application through web-based services that are accessed by a basic browser.  In a sense, we are making a canonical open-source point-of-care system, one that will hopefully be the seed for a large number of such developments in the future.

The project already has a small but dedicated group of very talented programmers in the US and India, but is looking for an additional handful of skilled developers to round out the team, to be based between the hospital, in rural Chhattisgarh, and our development hub in New Delhi, for the summer of 2012.

Extensive documentation about the project is available.  Main expertise required  for participation is in javascript, jquery, enthusiasm, logic, vision and to be able to learn by doing.

Drop us a line and we’ll invite you to our shared DropBox folder with most of our designs.

For more information about JSS itself please see the link above and this news item about its work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yY_JSO-Dqg

Please contact: daniel.pepper@gmail.com and visit our project wiki at:
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Raxa+JSS+EMR

Many thanks,
Daniel

Does your mobile phone battery run out on you often? Do you wish that your mobile applications were more energy efficient? Help researchers study energy consumption in your mobile phone (You need to be over 18 years of age, should have an Android phone, and optionally have a Mac computer).

Researchers in the computer science department at the University of Washington invite you to participate in a study focused on characterizing mobile usage behavior.

We will provide you with a $5 Amazon gift card for every week your participate, for a maximum of 2 months (i.e., for a total of $40).

The study requires that you download an application on your Android phone ( and optionally on your personal computer.) The application and the browser extension will log the battery levels as well as certain activities you perform. No personally identifiable data will be recorded. This includes the mobile phone number, the phone’s device ID the contacts on the phone, etc. The logged data will be encrypted and sent securely to a server. The data collected by the server cannot be linked to your computer or your phone.

For more information, please visit: abstract.cs.washington.edu/~arunab/mobile_study. If you have any questions, or if you are interested in participating in the study, please email Aruna Balasubramanian at the email address:arunab(@)cs.washington.edu. Please note that confidentiality cannot be guaranteed for communication sent via e-mail.

Thank you.

The USC Viterbi School of Engineering is pleased to invite outstanding Junior-year engineering students to apply for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program .

Students have an opportunity to spend summer break working alongside USC’s world-class faculty on cutting edge research in engineering and computer science.  Students will make new friends, gain valuable research experience, and receive a stipend for living expenses in Los Angeles!

Students interested in learning more about this exciting program are invited to join us for an upcoming webinar:

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11AM PST

OR

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 11AM PST

Register Here

Applicants to the Summer Research program should be outstanding undergraduate students in engineering or computer science who will begin their senior year in Fall 2012 and must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents.  I encourage you to share this webinar invitation with any of your eligible Junior-year students.

Some of this summer’s exciting research projects include:

• ·   A New Form of Cognitive Architecture for Virtual Humans
• ·   Nano Informatics
• ·   Chip-Scale Radars
• ·   Game Theory for Security
• ·   Human-Centered Information Processing
• ·   Anomaly Detection in Large Scale Networks
• ·   Generating  Electrical Power at Small Scales
• ·   Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs)
• ·   Learning Algorithms in Human-Robot Interaction

We look forward to meeting your students at our sessions!

Best regards,

Laura Hartman
Manager

Graduate Recruitment

USC Viterbi School of Engineering
http://viterbi.usc.edu/gapp

My name is Eric Larson. I’m a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Engineering at the University of Washington. I am part of a UW research team conducting a research project on mobile phone-based pulmonary (or lung) function measurement. 

Spend your summer in Montana gaining research skills and preparation for graduate school! Expand your CS experience, meet new students and faculty from outside UW, earn some cash, explore the Montana scenery, and still have more than a month of vacation at the end of summer. Sophomores who’ve completed 2 math courses and 2 programming courses are eligible (that’s pretty much all CSE majors).

Program Objectives:

1. Expose students to real-world, innovative and interdisciplinary research focused on networks research and network modeling with application to sustainability
2. Encourage more undergraduates to continue their academic careers and seek graduate degrees in computer science, engineering, and environmental science
3. Help participants develop research skills and improve communication and collaborative skills
4. Have fun!!  We will organize several group activities such as hikes, a trip to Yellowstone and whitewater rafting.  Montana State University is located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains in Bozeman, Montana.

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ELA partner, UC Berkeley is hosting a summer research program, SUPERB-Information Technology for Sustainability, an NSF-funded summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates site in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.  Students will have the chance to do computing research with faculty and graduate students to solve important environmental problems. SUPERB-ITS participants receive a $4,500 stipend, room and board on campus in the International House, and up to $600 for travel expenses.  Flyer is attached.

SUPERB-ITS Website:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superb.html

Online Application, due January 31, 2012:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superbapp/application.shtml