CSE Undergrad News

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From: William Stafford Noble <noble@gs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Subject: Undergraduate research opportunity

Undergraduate research position in computational biology

One undergraduate research position is available in the lab of William Stafford Noble in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

The project involves developing and improving software used to interpret mass spectrometry data for use in proteomics experiments.

Our research group develops and applies computational techniques for modeling and understanding biological processes at the molecular level. Our research emphasizes the application of statistical and machine learning techniques, such as dynamic Bayesian networks and support vector machines. We apply these techniques to various types of biological data, including DNA and protein sequence data, shotgun proteomics mass spectrometry data, and a variety of high-throughput genomic data types. We also develop and maintain a variety of software to support research in molecular biology. More information is available at http://noble.gs.washington.edu.

This is a paid, part-time position; however, it is also possible for a student to perform some or all of the work for research credit. The start date is the beginning of winter quarter, though it could be earlier.

Having some background knowledge in biology would be helpful, but is not necessary for the position. Knowledge of C++ is required, and knowledge of Unix system programming and Python are strongly recommended.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please submit a letter of interest, a resume, and a copy of your transcript to Benjamin Diament (bdiament@cs.washington.edu).

Hey CSE Ugrads,

Only 2 events this week, 2 days in a row!

Zynga Info Session: Tuesday November 9th, 6:00-7:00pm, CSE Atrium

AKA the makers of FarmVille and other ridiculously populated online games. There will be Thai Food, giveways, and a drawing for a Free HP Mini Netbook! They are hiring for full time and interns, check it out!

Research Night: Wednesday November 10th, 4:30-6:30pm, EE 125 and Atrium

One more ad for Research night.  A marvellous speaker and panel will start off the night at 4:30pm in EE125 getting us pumped for research.  Then a poster session will ensue at 5:30 in the atrium with ugrads, grads, and profs showing off their awesome research maybe looking to take on some new students!  It will be swell.

Take it easy,

Chris Raastad

Hey undergrads,

It’s coming up! This Wednesday is Research Night. Come check out the research our department has been working on, and maybe find a project you’d be interesting in working on. Undergraduate research looks great to grad schools and employers alike, and it’s really never too early to start.

The event kicks off at 4:30 PM with a short talk and a Q&A panel in EE 125. Afterwards, we’ll move to a poster session in the Atrium.

Hope to see you there!

– ACM

Hey CSE,

Lots is going on for the next couple of weeks!  Remember you can add http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/studentoutreach.html to your Google calendar to stay in the loop!

Tech Talks: remember all will include some sort of swag, food, and internship/career information.

1.) Madrona Info Session

Tuesday October 19th, 530-730pm, CSE Atrium

A collection of venture-backed start up companies, click event calendar link for more details!

2.) Palantir Info Session

Wednesday October 20th, 600-730pm, CSE Atrium

Analysts, large data sets, Taco Del Mar, and iPad drawing?!

3.) Cisco Info Session

Tuesday, October 26th, 600-700pm, EE 125

“Welcome to the Human Network, Cisco is more than just routers.” There will be a FLIP Video Raffle.

4.) CSE Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair

Thursday, October 28th, 9am-3pm, CSE Atrium

Mark your calendars.  This is hands down the largest recruitment event of the year!  More than 30 companies will be present! Check them out here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1011.html

You will NOT want to miss this if you are remotely thinking about an internship  or full time employment.  Bring lots of resumes to hand out. Come looking sharp and eager to learn about who’s who in the tech world. It will be a very exciting day!

In the distant future…

5.) ACM Fall Fest

Friday November 5th, 500-900pm, CSE Atrium

“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…”  Mark your calendar.  This is ACMs major social event of Fall Quarter.  Look for posters to go up and more details to come.  There will be food, games, music, and socializing.

6.) ACM Research Night

Wednesday, November 10th, 430-700pm, CSE Atrium

A fun night to see what exciting research projects undergraduates are working on in the department.  There will be a short talk, Q&A panel, poster session, refreshments, and opportunities to get involved in research for the following quarter.  This is a great opportunity to take part in a serious project long before summer comes around.

That’s all folks!  (for now) I apologize in advance if my overuse of exclamation marks, !!!!!’s, bothers you!

Chris Raastad

ACM Internal Relations

Hi all,
If you’re interested in applying for a Mary Gates Research Scholarship this year, the application deadline is Friday,
October 22, 2010.  These scholarships give up to $4000 (2 quarters)
directly to UW students who are engaged in research. Information on the application process can be found here:
http://www.washington.edu/uaa/mge/apply/research/index.htm

Details on the application are here: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/mge/apply/research/instructions.htm. If you’re interested in applying, you should talk this over with your faculty advisor.

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From: justincappos@gmail.com [mailto:justincappos@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Justin Cappos
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:52 AM
To: Crystal Eney; Elise DeGoede; Raven Avery
Subject: Research Project Needs Motivated Students

Hello!

I’m looking for a talented student (or two) who is interested in

working on a safe programming environment that will be deployed

on millions of computers ( https://seattle.cs.washington.edu ). This

environment is currently being used in networking and distributed systems

classes at universities around the world (including at UW!).   We already

have the world’s largest open testbed.  This is an excellent opportunity to

work on a very visible project.

There are a huge number of interesting subprojects that a student

could work on.   Here are a few example projects (but we are open to

suggestions):

Google Native Client integration — Some of the Google folks are interested

in integrating Google Native Client with our API.   This would allow

x86 binaries to be executed on our platform and provide Google Native

Client with performance isolation and resource restrictions.

Tor project support — Participation in Seattle as a hidden service to better

anonymize Seattle users.

Building cool apps — We’ve built DHTs, MapReduce, Paxos, and

other interesting applications, but we’re open to more development.

Mirror support and analysis — The TUF project

( https://www.updateframework.com/ ) is investigating security issues

related to software mirrors and needs a student who has strong

system administration skills.

As I mentioned before, these are only a few of the potential

subprojects that we’re interested in students working on.   If you

have your own project ideas we’d be keen to hear about them!

The benefits of doing research in our group:

* Work experience for your resume  —   Applicants with a background

in building real software are highly sought after in industry.

Working on a “production” research project gives you that experience

without needing to commute to work.

* Team environment    —   A significant amount of the work in our lab is

done in teams of 2-4 undergrads.   This helps to provide a supportive working

environment and allows students to accomplish more impressive things

in a shorter period of time.

* Research experience   —   One goal of the work is to spread

awareness by publishing in top conferences.   If you are interested in

graduate school, this will help tremendously.   One of prior students

is starting at Berkeley this year.

* Course credit or pay   —   Students will receive course credit

or pay in most circumstances.

* Letter of recommendation   —   Letters of recommendation about

research experience (Joe built an application used on millions of

computers) are often more reflective of skills than a letter based on

classroom interaction (Joe got a 3.8 in my class).

An applicant must have:

* Strong programming skills

* Self-motivation

I have had the privilege to work with many talented students,

including five who won awards and/or fellowships for research.   Our

lab currently is working with 8 talented undergraduates.   Three students

have either completed an honor’s thesis on this project and another

student has their thesis in progress.

We’re most interested in applicants who have prior experience working

either on open source software or have significant industry experience.

Competitive students should have a CS GPA >= 3.5 and

either have taken 3 CS courses or have prior experience.

Applicants also should have at least 1 year until graduation.

Significant experience in Python or C are a plus but not required.

If you are interested in learning more about our project, please send

an email to justinc@cs.washington.edu with the following information

(you need not list more an a few sentences for any item):

* Name

* Previous / Expected Degrees w/ CS and Math GPA

* Scholarships / Awards

* Expected graduation date

* Known programming languages / libraries and level of expertise

* Operating System familiarity (i.e. RedHat Linux administrator for 3

years, Windows user for 10 years)

* Work experience

* Any other skills I should know about

* The coolest project you’ve worked on

* Would you like pay / credit / volunteer?

* Email address you’d like to be contacted at

Thanks,

Justin

Announcing two great funding opportunities for advanced undergraduate researchers in science and engineering fields:

=> The Levinson Emerging Scholars Program supports talented and motivated UW juniors and seniors who want to pursue creative and highly independent research in genetics, neuroscience, biochemistry, bioengineering, bioinformatics, and related fields in the life sciences.

More information and application available at:
http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/levinson/index.html

DEADLINE EXTENDED to 5pm on JUNE 18 (from June 1)

=> Washington Research Foundation Fellowships (WRFF) for advanced undergraduates support promising students who work on creative and sophisticated science and engineering research projects under the guidance of UW faculty. More information and application available at:
http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/students/wrff.html.

DEADLINE is 5pm on JUNE 18, 2010

Note: If applicable, you may choose to apply to either or both opportunities.

Questions?  Contact the Undergraduate Research Program (urp@uw.edu;
543-4282)

I have a deal you can’t refuse.

The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Summit is right around the corner on May 2–3.  I feel strongly that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students and want to ensure that we have maximum student participation.  I need your help to sign up more students.

To participate in this program tell your students to register online and when they reach the field “budget number” type in the department chair’s last name (Levy). If all departments actively participate, we can have nearly 1,000 students register for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

What if some of your students have already paid?
• If a student has already registered on their own, please have them contact Heather Hoeksema, and we will figure out how to repay the student.

We have encouraged all students from across the Pacific Northwest to participate because their careers will focus on finding solutions to the 21st century’s grand challenges in both developed and developing societies.  Students must be prepared to collaborate on cross-disciplinary teams that are often geographically dispersed.  Don’t let them miss this opportunity. Please forward this information to all student organizations in your department!

Thanks,
Matt

Matthew O’Donnell
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering

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 7 to July 30, 2010.

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 2010 are described here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws10/internship.php

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

Initial applications should be received by FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2009, and should include the name of a faculty nominator who would be willing to serve as a reference if asked.  Apply online here:

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws10/internship.php

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.