CSE Undergrad News

Hello,

Please join the eScience Institute Monday, January 28, 4:00 pm in EEB-303.  Refreshments will be provided.

John Gennari (UW)

John Gennari, PhD, received his doctorate in Computer Science (in artificial intelligence) in 1990, and has been carrying out research in biomedical informatics since 1994, starting with the Stanford Medical Informatics group. His primary research focus is in knowledge representation and knowledge sharing. John is extensively published in the Biomedical Informatics literature, in application areas as diverse as health care guidelines, biosimulation modeling and cell-signaling pathways. Dr. Gennari joined the BHI faculty in 2002, and began working in synthetic biology in 2009 in collaboration with Herb Sauro.

Versions and Variants: Adopting engineering principles to synthetic biology

Synthetic biology is a unique interdisciplinary field that combines a deep understanding of genome-level biology, a technical ability to manipulate and synthesize genes at the wet bench, and an engineering approach to the design and development of novel constructs. As the field grows and matures, it needs to apply principles from engineering, such as standardization and modularity, to manage complexity. If synthetic biology components were standardized and modular, then researchers could access libraries of reusable components for adaptation and re-use in new designs, accelerating the pace of science. Our research group has worked over the last several years to help develop the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL), a standard for sharing and reusing synthetic biology designs. In this talk, I report on several early successes with this RDF-based standard.

In addition to broad principles such as modularity, we have discovered that day-to-day research in synthetic biology would also benefit from a more specific software engineering idea: Version control management. In collaboration with Herbert Sauro’s lab, we have developed prototype tools for applying version control to the complexities of the wet-bench process of biological construction. Ultimately, we aim to create intelligent CAD tools that allow researchers to not only leverage standards and reusable libraries of components, but also to carry out intelligent component retrieval, error detection, workflow management, and other sorts of decision support for the design and assembly of new biological constructs.

Upcoming Seminars:
* February 13, 4 PM (EE303)

Gary Johnson  

Waiting for Exascale

* March 13, 4 PM (EE303)

Carlos Guestrin  (UW)

GraphLab: Making Fast Machine Learning on Big Data Accessible to Data Scientists

* April 11, 4 PM (EE303)

Barry Wark  (Physion Consulting)

TBD

* May 1, 4 PM (EE303)

Jeff Gardner  (UW)

Simulating the Universe on Google’s Exacycle Platform

* May 13, 4 PM (EE303)

Fernando Perez  (Berkeley)

TBD

Overview:
1/14: Twitter Tech Talk
1/15: Facebook Tech Talk
1/16: Resume Review Round Table
1/17: Ooyala Tech Talk

Twitter Tech Talk: Personalization and Recommender Systems at Twitter
1/14: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125

Jake Mannix is the Tech Lead of the User Interest Modeling team. He will discuss the state of personalization technology and recommender systems at Twitter, covering topic classification and topical interest/authority graph analysis, training rankers for personalizing content, and the Who To Follow account recommender.

Facebook Tech Talk: Crush your Coding Interview
1/15: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

Want to get some inside info on how to crush your coding interviews this winter and spring? Facebook is hosting a presentation on campus that will cover some awesome ways to prepare for interviews with any company.

This talk will be given by Facebook Software Engineers (and UW Alums!). Dinner and SWAG will be provided – see you there!

Please RSVP to this link and check out all of the details: www.facebook.com/crushyourcodinginterview

Resume Review Round Table
1/16: 3:00 – 6:00pm; Atrium

In this workshop, HR reps and recruiters (or other people within companies who screen résumés or serve as the first or second-line reviewers) sit with small groups of CSE students for 15-20 minutes per group and critique resumes, offer suggestions and help them refine the way they present themselves on paper. It is a chance for students to get honest feedback about what’s working and what’s not, and to see examples from other students to help them craft a résumé that really works.

Ooyala Tech Talk
1/17: 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 105

I’s our pleasure to announce the second installment of the UW CSE Robotics Colloquium. This quarter, we’ll have local speakers presenting overviews of their research.
Time:     Fridays 2:30pm
Location: CSE 305
Signup:   cse590r

We’ll start Friday next week, January 18.

The preliminary list of speakers is at http://www.cs.washington.edu/news_events/robotics_colloquia

Very best,
Dieter and Evangelos

All CSE undergraduates are urged to attend our CSE Internship Panel Event this Thursday, January 10 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in EEB 105!  Reservations are not required.

The internship panel will feature recent CSE grads from Amazon, Zillow, Google and Microsoft who will provide the insight you need to secure the best-fitting internships, prepare for those internships and know what to expect once you get there.

Additional insight from our expert panel will help you steer your future transition from student to professional in the most efficient and effective way possible.   No CSE undergraduate who wants to maximize their early career impact and jump immediately into the position they desire should miss this one.  Bring your questions!  We will look forward to seeing you next Thursday.

Please contact CSE Advisor Dave Rispoli (rispoli@cs) for additional information.

Welcome back from break!

Overview:
1/10: Google Office Hours
1/10: Internship Panel

Google Office Hours
1/10: 12:00 – 1:00pm; Atrium

Internship Panel
1/10: 5:30 – 6:30pm; EEB 105

Speaker: On Lee, CTO of GDP Venture, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Company: GDP Venture is a strategic Internet investor focused on the Indonesian market. We invest in early and growth stage companies in the consumer-to-consumer and mobile industries. Some of our portfolio companies: Kaskus.co.id – The Largest Indonesian Community; Blibli.com – Ecommerce; Merah Putih Inc – Indonesia’s first tech and digital incubator.

Description: On Lee will talk about the Internet industry in Indonesia. He has just recently returned to Indonesia in 2011 due to personal reasons after living and working in the US for almost 30 years. He will share his experience working with people, processes and products after more than a year in Indonesia as the CTO of GDP Venture and a Mentor of The Founder Institute Jakarta.

Supported by:

Indo Cafe (http://www.myindocafe.com/)

T-Station (http://www.tstationseattle.com/)

**This research colloquium is also open to the public, so anyone can attend all or part of the seminars even if they are not registered.**

Winter Quarter 2013 Seminar Series

MEBI 591A: Technologies to Support Aging: Implications for Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Tuesdays 11:00 – 11:50 a.m.

Health Sciences I-132

The population of older adults is growing rapidly and expected to double in size from 2000 to 2030. As our health care system struggles with limited resources and a workforce shortage, there is a need for innovative approaches that will address this unprecedented demographic shift and improve quality of life for older adults. Technology can facilitate the design of such solutions that promote independent and healthy aging. Examples include among others fall detection systems, wearable sensors to capture vital signs or activity levels, telehealth devices for disease management, “smart” homes for independent elders. Technology-based solutions to support aging require interdisciplinary approaches that address not only the technical but also the clinical, ethical, legal and societal implications. This seminar series draws on the expertise of speakers from many disciplines (including health informatics, medicine, nursing, social work, computer science and engineering) to showcase examples of current or proposed systems and examine lessons learned and challenges.

Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW School of Medicine. For questions or more information contact gdemiris@uw.edu

Research Night is tomorrow, November 15th, from 4pm – 7:30pm! Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Come grab a bite and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:00pm – Student Panel in EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session in the Atrium

See you there!

Date to be determined.

Overview:
11/13: Zynga Tech Talk
11/14: Twitter Tech Talk
11/15: Amazon Office Hours

Zynga Tech Talk
11/13; 6:00 – 7:30pm; EEB 125

Please join us to hear from UW alum Iva Dermendjieva and Sr University Relations Manager Larry Benesh. Iva will talk about her work as a game developer and will discuss the challenges of building engaging games for millions of users. Food will be served!

We’re hiring! Visit zynga.com/students or send your resume to Julie Barton (jbarton@zynga.com) to apply.

Twitter Tech Talk
11/14; 6:00 – 7:00pm; EEB 125

Amazon Office Hours
11/15; 12:00pm – 1:30pm; Atrium