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Seeking Research Assistant to Further Develop Novel Geo-Mobile App

The Tactile and Tactical Design Lab (TAT Lab) at UW is looking for an enthusiastic individual interested in further developing a novel mobile app to support guided urban wandering. The application generates walking routes based on digital sketches people create and annotate without a map. In addition to creating walking paths, the app enables people to send the paths to others, thus developing a unique form of digital communication. Mixing artistic expression and GPS-based urban exploration, we examine alternative uses of GIS-routing technologies.

Applicants should have mobile application implementation (Objective C or Android Java) and preferably Google maps API experience. The project would require 10-20 hours per week and will offer research credit with potential for pay.
Please send resume and related experience to Prof. Daniela Rosner at dkrosner@uw.edu.
October 1, 2014

Undergrad research position – this fall/winter 2014/2015 iphone app

Undergrad research position – this fall/winter 2014/2015
We’re looking for a highly motivated undergrad to help with an iPhone app development for computer vision.
Programming experience is necessary, specifically:  iPhone app dev., Python
Computer vision knowledge is not assumed.
Keywords: iphone apps, computer vision, big data, photos, faces, facial expressions.
Contact kemelmi@cs.washington.edu with your CV+transcript
Check out our group’s research at:
September 25, 2014

Undergrad research position in Computer Vision (fall and/or winter)!

Undergrad research position in Computer Vision  (fall and/or winter)!
We’re looking for a highly motivated undergrad to help develop methods for face analysis from photos.  Keywords: computer vision, big data, photos, faces, facial expressions
Programming experience is necessary, specifically:  Python, MATLAB, C/C++.
Computer vision knowledge is not assumed, but motivation to learn is a must.
Pluses: taking cse 455 or 457, taking a machine learning class, familiar with GPU programming.
Contact kemelmi@cs.washington.edu with your CV+transcript
Check out our group’s research at:
September 25, 2014

EE research credit project – CSE ugrads needed

EE research credit project – ugrads needed

Dear students,

 

We are looking for one or two undergraduate students to take on an XML programming project in Microsoft Word, starting immediately. The initial position is for 499 research credit, it may be converted to a paid position if the project proceeds successfully. Up to 10 EE 499 credits can be applied towards graduation requirements.

 

Here is partial description of the task.

 

  1. We wish to to capture the source files prepared in WORD and convert them to XML using the JATS DTD. The templates need to make that conversion as straightforward and error-free as possible. The full-text XML should make it easier to render on multiple devices.
  2. It is important that the files we serve are accessible for vision-impaired people. We need Word templates that support accessibility features that are maintained even when converted to PDF for delivery. We expect that if we can convert to XML, accessibility will be enhanced.

 

 

Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory is focused primarily on the design of novel medical devices and energy-saving industrial technologies.

General information about the lab is on SEAL Website: www.ee.washington.edu/research/seal

 

If interested, please send your cover letter (email), resume, and unofficial transcript to Prof. Alexander Mamishev, mamishev@uw.edu. Please describe your prior experience with XML, if any.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alexander Mamishev

Professor of Electrical Engineering

University of Washingto

September 12, 2014
September 22, 2014

Robotics research for CSE credit fall 2014

Dear Students!

We are looking for exceptionally talented and motivated undergraduate
students eager to join a research project combining mobile robotics,
computer vision and machine learning. We are running an exciting
project involving a mobile robot DUB-E operating continuously in the
CSE building. The robot performs tasks requested by the users using a
mobile website (e.g. “DUB-E, check if Andrzej is in his office”). The
robot navigates and gathers data within the entire CSE building using
elevators as means of transportation. Our research focuses on several
aspects of the system including large-scale environment understanding,
human-robot interaction, and life-long learning for robots.

Students with following experiences are desirable. However, students
who are really enthusiastic about robotic research, have a portfolio
of fun hobby projects and are fast learners are also very much
welcome.

* Good programming skills in C++, Python, JavaScript
* Robotic sensors and actuators, electrical engineering
* Linux operating system and networking
* Machine learning, AI and data analysis
* Computer vision and image processing
* User interface design
* Web development and mobile app development
* Game development

The project offers interesting opportunities to work with the real
robots, learn more about AI and apply what you’ve learned to real
world problems. You will work in a great team of professors (Prof D.
Fox, R. Rao and M. Cakmak), researchers (Dr. A. Pronobis) and graduate
students (Michael Jae-Yoon Chung) as well as fellow undergraduate
students already involved in our project.

We would be excited to have you in our team! Please contact us
(pronobis@cs.washington.edu, or mjyc@cs.washington.edu) if you want to
participate. Tell us about your interests and previous projects and
attach your transcript of records from UW.

Logistics:
We offer CSE499, CSE498A or CSE498B credits. To understand more about
general undergraduate research logistics in UW/CSE, check out
following link:
https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/research
Feel free to talk to us if you have any questions.

Mike & Andrzej


Andrzej Pronobis, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Robotics and State Estimation Lab
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
E-mail: pronobis@cs.washington.edu
URL: www.pronobis.pro
Phone: +1 (206) 383 3793, Skype: andrzej_pronobis

September 17, 2014

EE research credit project – ugrads needed

Dear students,

 

We are looking for one or two undergraduate students to take on an XML programming project in Microsoft Word, starting immediately. The initial position is for 499 research credit, it may be converted to a paid position if the project proceeds successfully. Up to 10 EE 499 credits can be applied towards graduation requirements.

 

Here is partial description of the task.

 

  1. We wish to to capture the source files prepared in WORD and convert them to XML using the JATS DTD. The templates need to make that conversion as straightforward and error-free as possible. The full-text XML should make it easier to render on multiple devices.
  2. It is important that the files we serve are accessible for vision-impaired people. We need Word templates that support accessibility features that are maintained even when converted to PDF for delivery. We expect that if we can convert to XML, accessibility will be enhanced.

 

 

Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory is focused primarily on the design of novel medical devices and energy-saving industrial technologies.

General information about the lab is on SEAL Website: www.ee.washington.edu/research/seal

 

If interested, please send your cover letter (email), resume, and unofficial transcript to Prof. Alexander Mamishev, mamishev@uw.edu. Please describe your prior experience with XML, if any.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alexander Mamishev

Professor of Electrical Engineering

University of Washingto

September 12, 2014

Research position in Genome Sciences – for credit

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: William S Noble <wnoble@uw.edu>
Date: Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Research project in optimization of scientific computing software
To: Ugrad Advisor <ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu>

Research project in optimization of scientific computing software
Segway is an open source software toolkit that automatically annotates massive collections of genomic data, helping biologists to make sense out of heterogeneous collections of experimental high-throughput sequencing data.  Developed at the UW as part of the National Institutes of Health ENCODE Consortium, Segway is now in use in a variety of labs around the world.  To increase the impact of this software and to make it more easily used by scientists who do not have access to large compute clusters, we aim to improve the parallelization of the code using a MapReduce strategy and migrate the software to a cloud-based bioinformatics platform at DNAnexus.com.  Undergraduate students interested in helping with this effort should send a resume and transcript to Prof. Bill Noble (wnoble@uw.edu) in the Department of Genome Sciences.
September 12, 2014

Re: Seeking participants for research study on weight tracking!

 

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Hanchuan Li <hanchuan@cs.washington.edu>

We are conducting a user study to evaluate ways of understanding and reinventing the scale interface. The study will span over 3 weeks (from late August to mid September), during which we will be asking you to weigh yourself once a day on Fitbit Aria smart scale in CSE building (weekday required, weekend optional) After each weigh-in, you will be asked to look at your measurement using one of our novel smartphone interfaces. In appreciation for your participation, we will reward participants with a $30 gift card. We ask that participants meet the following 3 criteria:
1.18 years or older
2.Comfortable with using a smartphone
3.Trying to achieve a weight goal (gain, lose, or maintain)
 
Please reply with your name, age, gender and weight goal to hanchuan@cs.washington.edu if you are interested in participating. Please also notify if you own Fitbit Aria yourself.
Thank you very much!
August 20, 2014

Robotics Research available this summer quarter – see below

From: Vikash Kumar <vikash@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM
Subject: Summer projects for undergrads
To: ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu

If ROBOT is a synonymy of Excitement to you and if you have seen all the science fiction movies casting fake robots, we at Movement Control Lab, CSE, UW are looking for you to work with the real ones.
Multiple opportunities in the field of robotics are available effective immediately. Opportunities will be provided as short term summer projects (dates flexible), which can later be extended to long term research opportunities based on your performance and interest.
If you have good programming skills, hacker’s attitude, a knack for getting things to work and want to play with expensive toys – write to us at vikash@cs.washington.edu with “RoboticsSummerProject <YourName>” as the subject. Attach your resume and briefly mention your story/experiences which might help us understand you.

 

July 29, 2014

help testing one bus away

Caitlin Bonnar <cbonnar@cs.washington.edu>

Jun 24 (2 days ago)
to cs-grads, cs-ugrads, researchers

Hey CSE,

One of the more common problems experienced in OneBusAway is a constantly increasing delay time that will suddenly jump back down to “on time” or a much smaller delay. If you’ve witnessed this problem, we could use your help with testing!
We’ve released a beta that can be accessed at http://kcm-beta.onebusaway.org, or can be used as a custom API in the Android or iOS versions (detailed instructions below). Note that the beta only works with King County Metro buses (since the problem seems to only be with their agency).
We’d really appreciate it if you could use the beta and let us know if you experience this problem, or a problem of another sort (e.g., a bus reported too early). If you do notice a problem with the beta version, shoot me an e-mail describing the problem with the day, time, route number and direction, and (if possible) the vehicle number of the bus with the problem.
Any problems getting the beta to work, just let me know. We hope that this problem will be resolved soon, and we’re really sorry if it’s ever caused you to miss a bus!
Thanks!
Caitlin
Detailed instructions for testing on Android/iOS:
On Android: 
Under Settings>Advanced, choose “OneBusAway API Server.” Enter kcm-beta.onebusaway.org as the url.
On iOS: 
You’ll need to sign up to be a beta tester for OBA iOS on TestFlight in order to use the custom API setting (unfortunately, there’s a bug in the production version).
Once you’re approved, and have the latest beta (2.2.2) of OneBusAway installed, go to the Info tab, then select Settings>Puget Sound (under ‘Region’), then scroll down and select “Custom API URL.” Enter kcm-beta.onebusaway.org here.
**Note: To switch back to the production version of the data, you will have to select Puget Sound as your region again in the settings.
June 26, 2014

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