We are looking for an undergraduate interested in doing a CSE499 project at the intersection of computer science and biology. The project involves connecting a biology muscle simulator with a cloud database in order to provide efficient support for data analytics. To apply, you must have completed CSE344. If you are interested, please send your transcript to Prof. Magda Balazinska (magda@cs.washington.edu).
Harvard summer program in Biostats and Comp Bio
Hello, CSE students! Our colleagues at Harvard would like to advertise their 2017 Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This program is open to any US citizens or permanent residents who identify with groups that are typically underrepresented in STEM, including racial/ethnic minorities, low-income students, first generation college students, and students with disabilities.
All-expenses-paid! A digital brochure can be found online.
Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology
at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
June 10, 2017 – July 22, 2017
Application Due: February 1, 2017
Eligibility & Requirements
If you like mathematics and would like to learn how quantitative methods can be applied in the study of human health, consider applying to the Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The program will introduce you to the power and excitement of math applications to public health, medicine, and biology, and provide you experiences that will help inform your future career path.
Summer Program for Undergraduates & Recent Graduates
The Summer Program is an intensive 6-week program, during which qualified participants receive a whirlwind introduction to biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health research. This program is designed to expose undergraduates to the use of quantitative methods for biological, environmental, and medical research. The program also provides advice about graduate school and the application process through GRE preparation, meetings with different departments of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and individualized mentoring by Harvard faculty. Participants take non-credit introductory courses in Biostatistics and Epidemiology and statistical programming languages such as R, and attend a series of topical seminars. The seminars, led by faculty members from various departments at the Harvard School of Public Health, are designed to broaden participant’s understanding of the relationship of biostatistics to human health by providing a snapshot of methods developed and applied to real research projects in different fields. Participants also gain research experience through small-group research projects directed by faculty and graduate student mentors. At the end of the program, students present their research to the group and to affiliated faculty. Housing and travel are provided and a living stipend (including meals) of approximately $1900 is provided for the 6-week program.
Post-Baccalaureate Internship
The 2-3 month internship program is for post-bacs interested in or planning to attend a graduate degree program in biostatistics. Past summer program participants are encouraged to apply. Travel is provided and interns will receive a salary for their participation in the post-baccalaureate program. Interns will participate in collaborative research projects through 1-2 rotations at academic and clinical centers at Harvard. They will attend regular seminars at Harvard and Dana Farber Cancer Institute on biostatistical topics. They will also attend the annual Pipelines Into Biostatistics Symposium in July 2017, and have the option to return the next summer to present their research at our 2018 symposium.
Ugrad research opportunity with the UW database group
Verifying Query Optimizations in Big Data Systems as a Cloud Service
This project will build a cloud service for a SQL solver that verifies query optimizations in big data systems (SparkSQL, Myria, SQL Server etc). This is a “full stack” project, which will involve building a syntax highlighter for a domain specific language (DSL), developing a front end web interface, building a backend using a SQL solver currently under development, and data visualization.
You will gain experience on developing cloud service using the state of art technology (React, Docker, AWS etc) as well as perspectives on cutting edge computer science research on data management and programming languages.
Project background: http://cosette.cs.washington.e
Minimum Requirement:
1. Enjoy hacking and programming
2. Knowledge on web front end development (React, NodeJS, JQuery etc) or willingness to learn
3. Experience on programming (Java, C++ etc), knowing functional programming language is a plus.
4. Knowledge on Database Systems (SQL, relational data model, etc) or willingness to learn
If interested please send an email with your unofficial transcript to Alvin Cheung akcheung@cs.washington.edu.
Research opportunity in NLP+SE
Hi Everyone,
We are seeking an undergraduate researcher to collaborate on an exciting project in natural language processing and software engineering.
The goal of the project is to take as input an English description of a file system operation, such as
“find the top 10 largest files in the system root directory”
and to produce as output a bash command, such as
“find / -type f | xargs -I {} du -a {} | sort -n -r | head -n 10”
We are looking for a strongly motivated undergraduate student to participate in this project. You should be very comfortable with the unix shell. Familiarity with machine learning is a plus.
Potential tasks include:
* develop and maintain a bash parser
* develop novel data collection methods, possibly including crowdsourcing
* develop data processing techniques
To apply for the position, please email me:
* your resume
* a current grade report or transcript
* a current grade report or transcript
* anything else you consider relevant, such as link to your personal webpage or project page (optional)
Looking forward to your participation!
Best Regards,
Victoria Lin, Chenglong Wang, Michael Ernst, Luke Zettlemoyer
| Victoria Lin <xilin@cs.washington.edu> |
Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Student Open House
Hi UW students,
The student leadership council at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) wants to invite you to our Student Open House on Thursday, October 13 at 3:30pm at the CSNE (2nd Floor of Russell Hall, 1414 NE 42nd St. Suite 204). We’ll be talking about what resources the CSNE has to offer and enjoying free food and drinks.
If you’re a new student who is interested in research in neural engineering, stop by to learn about the CSNE, which has funding opportunities for graduate research in neural engineering projects through a variety of departments as well as opportunities for networking at lunches and seminars with faculty members and industry representatives. We also have a great community of graduate and undergraduate students working in similar research areas, and we provide platforms for practice talks, travel funding for conferences, and more!
If you’re a returning student familiar or affiliated with the CSNE, we encourage you to come and share your experience with new members of our student community!
Please RSVP (yes/no) here, so we can have enough food/drinks! And/Or leave your email if you’d like to be added to our mailing list.
You can read more about us at: http://csne-erc.org/
We hope to see you there!
CSNE Student Leadership Council
Research Position for Credit: looking for a student for a research project on developing a web platform for scholar/activists
From Alan Borning: borning@cs.washington.edu
subject: looking for a student for a research project on developing a web platform for scholar/activists
I have a research project, in collaboration with Lance Bennett in Communication/Political Science and others, on building a platform for scholar/activists working on integrated approaches to problems in sustainability, rethinking the economy, and reinvigorating democracy. I’m looking for a CSE undergrad who would like to work on this for a senior project (or it could be a 5th year MS student). The specific project would be to build a web platform using Ruby on Rails. We already have an Art & Design student who has done some great work on the visuals and some of the interaction elements, but need someone to actually implement it.
The initial aim is to get a prototype up and running soon, but after that, there are also some research questions that could be investigated, for example, on how to sustain participation, and how to support key values such as fairness, listening, and accountability. The principal skill needed is Rails development experience (or the ability to come up to speed quickly on it). Other useful background is HCI experience in iterative development and user testing, and a strong interest in environmental/political issues.
Unfortunately we don’t have any money for this right now, so this would be for CSE 498 or 499 credits rather than pay.
Please send me an email if you are interesting, including information on your background and interests. Thanks!
Alan Borning: borning@cs.washington.edu
Networks Lab research position working on Internet anti-censorship technologies
The UW Computer Science & Engineering department/Networks Lab is seeking upper-level undergraduates research RAs to work on projects related to Internet anti-censorship technologies. For one of the projects, we require students with experience in JavaScript development and an interest in contributing to open source software.
Students working in this role would be responsible for maintaining freedom.js, a JavaScript framework that facilitates the development of decentralized browser extensions and web applications. For the other project, we desire students with low-level systems experience in order to develop network probing tools and measurement systems to understand how censorship is performed in various countries. Specific skills or experience desired include:
-Understanding/awareness of topics in networking, encryption, peer-to-peer operations, and related CS areas
-Interest in privacy, open source, and the intersection between technology and social issues
-Comfort with version control (git), software testing (unit/integration/continuous integration), command line/server operations, and other current software engineering practices
-Knowledge of the modern JavaScript ecosystem (node/npm, grunt, karma, jasmine, promises, ECMAScript 6+, etc.) *or*
-Knowledge of low-level C networking and interest in building tools for large-scale data collection and analysis.
The ideal candidate need not have experience with everything above, but will be passionate and able to learn and build things in a self-directed fashion (e.g. read documentation, set up development environments, manage cloud servers, experiment and debug problems up and down the webapp/browser stack, etc.). There will likely be semi-weekly meetings with engineers from Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) to coordinate work. Credit or pay is possible.
To apply, just email arvind@cs.washington.edu your CV and a UW transcript. Please include a paragraph describing related experience, and if possible links to projects (e.g. on GitHub).
Call for Participation in User Study: Programming Robots with Physical Objects
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Yasaman Sefidgar <einsian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:03 PM
Subject: [dub] Call for Participation in User Study: Programming Robots with Physical Objects
To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, dub@dub.washington.edu
Cc: Prerna Agarwal <prerna2@uw.edu>
From: Yasaman Sefidgar <einsian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:03 PM
Subject: [dub] Call for Participation in User Study: Programming Robots with Physical Objects
To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, dub@dub.washington.edu
Cc: Prerna Agarwal <prerna2@uw.edu>
Hello everyone,
We are exploring novel and intuitive techniques for programming robots and are recruiting participants of any background for a user study that involves the use of physical objects to provide instructions to a robot.
General Information
- The study happens at the Paul Allen Building.
- The study runs between September 19 and September 24.
- The study takes about 1 hour.
- You will receive a minimum of $10 Amazon Gift Card at the end of the study.
You will also get the opportunity to take a selfie with any of our robots and learn about ongoing robotics research at UW.
General Restrictions on Participation
- You should be between the ages 19 and 50 years old.
- You should not have any form of color blindness.
- You should not have participated in our previous study earlier this month.
Please follow this link to sign-up: http://tinyurl.com/zao5c5y
Thanks a lot,
Yasaman, Prerna, Maya
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dub mailing list
dub@dub.washington.edu
http://dubber.cs.washington.
Mobile dev research position with the Comprehensive Stroke Center at UW Medicine
Students interested in mobile development, iOS programming, health science research, or neurology may be interested in this research opportunity (possibly paid or for credit): The Comprehensive Stroke Center for UW Medicine is seeking someone to create an iOS app to help recruit subjects for clinical trials.
EDIT: If interested, email Glenn Schubert at gbs61@u.washington.edu
“The Comprehensive Stroke Center for UW Medicine is located at Harborview Medical Center, and staffed by UW vascular neurology faculty. We are also one of 25 NIH StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Centers conducting multiple NIH and industry-funded clinical stroke trials that recruit subjects from both HMC and UWMC. Administering these studies requires working through extensive inclusion/exclusion criteria – too much information for our neurologists to remember or work through easily with their current technology. The team would like to translate this process into an iPhone app, to help process possible research participants more effectively and efficiently.
We would like to create an iOS app that can replace all of our current stroke phones. The goal is that by answering a few questions, a vascular neurologist can determine if a patient is eligible for any ongoing stroke research trials. We would like to find someone who has iOS development experience and an interest in medicine/medical research. I’d be willing to discuss credit/pay options, but our budget is slim. The amount of hours per week would depend on their level of experience with iOS app creation and the complexity of our requirements.
Glenn B. Schubert, MPH
Program Manager
NIH StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Center
UW Medicine Comprehensive Stroke Center
325 9th Avenue Box 359775
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
206-744-5826“
Research opening with machine learning for synthetic and systems biology
Interested in doing cutting edge research at the intersection of Biology and Computer Science? Come join the Seelig Lab!!
Description of Research: This opportunity is in the lab of Professor Georg Seelig in CSE & EE. Seelig lab is a Synthetic and Systems Biology lab working on developing experimental and computational methods for studying (and modifying) biological systems. We are presently developing Machine Learning tools for two different Computational Biology projects in collaboration with Dr. Su-in Lee (CSE & Genome Sciences) and Dr. Sreeram Kannan (EE). Both projects involve working with large publicly available Single Cell Sequencing data sets and developing machine learning algorithms for such data. Problems we are looking to solve include (but not limited to) i) identifying new cell types ii) identifying key genes responsible for stem cell differentiation iii) lineage reconstruction for stem cell differentiation. Students will receive training in both the underlying biology problems as well as machine learning tools for their analysis. Through the course of the research, students will learn to work with large biological datasets, conduct literature searches and implement novel machine learning algorithms in different programming languages. We also have regular lab meetings where members of the lab present their research, which is a great opportunity to improve presentation skills and learn about other research. One potential outcome is becoming a co-author in any publications arising from these projects.
Requirements/Qualifications: Due to the training required, we need at least a 2 quarter commitment and a minimum of Sophomore standing as of Autumn 2016. No prior biology background is necessary but interest in biology and machine learning is recommended. Essential skills are a working knowledge of any one (or more) of the following programming languages: MATLAB, Python and R. Some prior experience in machine learning and Javascript programming is useful. Priority will be given to Juniors and Seniors who have a good programming background and an interest in pursuing graduate training in computational biology/ machine learning. We are currently looking for 1 undergraduate research assistant for these projects.
Method of compensation: Undergraduate research assistants may receive course credit.
Expected start date: Around mid-September or Autumn quarter (whichever works best for the student).
Contact Information: If interested, please contact Dr. Alberto Carignano (ac86@uw.edu) and Sumit Mukherjee (mukhes3@uw.edu) with a copy of your resume, detailing relevant coursework, previous programming experience and prior research experience.
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