Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures and is one of the most common neurological disorders in humans. The Mefford lab uses state-of-the-art genomics and computational methods to identify new genetic and genomic causes of childhood-onset forms of epilepsy. Examples include whole exome and whole genome sequencing, chromosome microarrays and bioinformatics analysis of large sequence data sets. Once new causes are discovered, we also evaluate clinical information to understand the phenotypic features associated with specific causes of epilepsy. Depending on their interest, student could participate in experimental and/or computational projects in the lab and would be expected to learn how to develop a research question, design and perform experiments, interpret the results and design additional experiments based on the results. They would also be expected to present their results at lab meetings, and if appropriate, at a scientific meeting.
http://www.washington.edu/medicine/pediatrics/meflab/
We are looking for a highly-motivated, responsible student who has taken courses in genetics, biology and/or chemistry. Some laboratory bench experience is a plus, as is some experience with bioinformatic analysis and programming in R, Perl and/or Python. Ideally, the student would be able to work an average of ~15 hours per week for at least 6 months. The student should be able to provide references from prior research supervisors or course instructors.
If interested, contact Alison Muir (
alimuir@uw.edu). Please include your resume and transcript with your email.
May 24, 2017
Hello, CSE ugrads! A team in UW Medicine is looking for students to help develop app used in medical research. Unpaid, but credit is possible. If interested, please contact Glenn directly!
“Can we please advertise for students who would be interested in assisting with the final phase of my mobile application project? I need 3-4 people who should be fluent in Java and are well versed in database systems. These students will have preferentially taken CSE 344 or CSE 414. The task involves building the backend comprised of SQL storage, building an API and the parsing SQL to JSON format.
Thank you for all of your assistance with this very important project.
Glenn B. Schubert, MPH
Program Manager
NIH StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Center
Northwest Stroke Trials Network
325 9th Avenue Box 359775
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
206-744-5826“
April 13, 2017
UW WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE of CLOUD COMPUTING
FRIDAY March 31, 2017
Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 334
8:00AM-6PM
BADGE PICK UP AT 8:00AM – Pre-Registration is REQUIRED
Below is the current Speaker List (alphabetical order). For abstracts,
bios, and schedule, please see:
http://www.industry-academia.org/UW-Workshop-Agenda-2017.html
• Prof. Tom Anderson, UW, “High Performance RPC Packet Processing with FlexNIC”
• Doug Burger, Microsoft, “Running Hardware Microservices on Configurable Clouds”
• Prof. Luis Ceze, UW, “A DNA-based Archival Storage System”
• Derek Chickles, Cavium, “Intelligent NICS for the Data Center”
• Kim Hazelwood, Facebook, “Scalable Performance in Facebook Data Centers”
• Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, UW, “What Can We Do with Programmable Switches?”
• Pankaj Mehra, Sandisk, “Evolutionary Changes, Revolutionary Implications: Persistent Memory in the Data Center”
• Prof. Dan Ports, UW, “Rethinking Distributed Systems for the Datacenter”
• Prof. Franziska Roesner, UW, “Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Platforms”
• Gabriel Southern, Intel, “FPGAs in the Data Center”
• Prof. Michael Taylor, UW, “Specializing the Planet’s Computation: ASIC Clouds”
• Kees Vissers, Xilinx, “A Framework for Reduced Precision Neural Networks on FPGAs”
Organized by UW CSE faculty Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, Prof. Luis Ceze, and the Industry-Academia Partnership.
ATTENDANCE IS FREE FOR STUDENTS, ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Registration and additional information is available at
http://www.industry-academia.org/event-university-of-washington-cloud-workshop-2017.html
March 22, 2017
The Summer Research Training Program at the University of Western Australia gives you an opportunity to earn 8 weeks of intensive research training in science and engineering laboratories while gaining knowledge and first-hand experience with Australian culture.
Located in the coastal city of Perth, the University of Western Australia is one of Australia’s top research institutions. Research labs hosting program students in 2017 address a variety of topics including
- aerospace engineering
- biomedical engineering
- computer science and engineering, chemistry
- electrical engineering, energy engineering
- environmental engineering
- materials science
- mechatronics engineering
- ocean engineering
- physics
- systems engineering.
The program dates are July 5 to August 25. Applications can be submitted online and are due by March 31. To learn more and submit an application, visit the UW program page or contact Mike Engh.
March 17, 2017
From: Henry Kautz <kautz@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:22 AM
Subject: NSF REU Music, Media, and Minds
Location: Rochester, Summer 2017
Announcing: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates: Computational Methods for Understanding Music, Media, and Minds
Applications now being accepted for Summer 2017
How can a computer learn to read an ancient musical score? What can methods from signal processing and natural language analysis tell us about the history of popular music? Can a computer system teach a person to better use prosody (the musical pattern of speech) in order to become a more effective public speaker? These are some of the questions that undergraduate students will investigate this summer in our REU at the University of Rochester. Each student will be mentored by two or more faculty members drawn from Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brain and Cognitive Science, the program in Digital Media Studies, and the Eastman School of Music.
The program is open to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year full time students at a college or university, who are US citizens or permanent residents, and who will have completed two programming courses or have equivalent experience by the start of the summer program. Students do not need to computer science majors. We encourage applications from students attending colleges that lack opportunities for research, and from students from communities underrepresented in computer science.
Please visit http://www.sas.rochester.edu/dsc/undergraduate/reu.html for more information.
February 13, 2017
Research opportunity in the database group
Our recently-released PipeGen tool is designed to improve the performance of data transfer between Java-based database systems. We are looking for a talented, strongly-motivated individual to extend this tool to support databases written in C and C++. This is a low-level project that involves applying our existing techniques (e.g., static analysis and instrumentation) in this new runtime environment. It is an excellent opportunity to gain experience with applying state of the art technologies to a real-world, practical problem.
The right candidate will be experienced with lower-level C/C++ constructs and ISAs such as x86, comfortable working with (and potentially hacking on) compiler tools such as LLVM and Clang, be familiar with AST manipulation and code rewriting, and have strong software engineering skills. Strong performance in several of the following courses is preferred: 331, 333, 401, 344/444, 351/451.
Potential tasks include:
* Creating a framework that automatically executes and instruments selected C/C++ unit tests
* Developing a framework for C/C++ programs to identify and rewrite pattern-matched C/C++ idioms
* Writing rules to support targeted PipeGen modifications (e.g., find all export file open invocations)
Interested candidates should forward the following details to bhaynes@cs.washington.edu:
* CV or resume
* a current transcript
* any other relevant details (e.g., a personal website, GitHub/StackOverflow profile, direct links to a relevant projects)
* a one-paragraph summary of your understanding of the SoCC paper listed on our project website
We will contact selected students in a few weeks for interviews. We currently offer this opportunity as independent study credit, with the possibility of extending this to a 5th year M.S. project if there is mutual interest.
January 19, 2017
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017
Subject: Frontiers of Science and Engineering at UW symposium on Friday January 20
To: talks@cs.washington.edu, researchers@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
You might be interested in this symposium on the afternoon of Friday January 20:
https://www.cs.washington.edu/frontiers2017
Please spread the word.
January 14, 2017
Hey there!
Avoiding studying for finals? Need a quick break? Then how about filling out this survey? In addition to the raffle for a $100 amazon gift card, we’ll also include 2 items of CSE Swag randomly chosen from those who finish the survey, so now you have a bit more incentive. Thank you!
Dear Student,
Recently, you received an email requesting your participation in a survey for the
Computing Research Association (CRA). If you have not already done so, I encourage
you to complete their brief survey on the experiences of computing students, which will
take no more than 25 minutes to complete. The survey will close January 16th, 2017 at
midnight, EST.
Should you decide to complete the survey, you will be entered into a raffle for a $100
gift card to Amazon!
If you are interested in completing the survey, please click the link below, or copy and
paste the URL into your internet browser:
https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3qOSfPHLfetdaqF
The survey is being conducted by the CRA’s Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline
(CERP). For more information on CERP, please visit their website: http://cra.org/cerp/.
Many thanks in advance!
December 14, 2016
