CSE Undergrad News

The University of Washington (Seattle) Department of Bioengineering is recruiting one or more students/scientists for an exciting fast-paced project to expand the frontiers of flu diagnosis. Our work is focused on enabling at-home testing for flu, and using data collected from patients to improve the accuracy of diagnosis (see https://fluathome.org/). We are seeking one or more students/scientists with expertise in the following areas: biostatistics, multivariate modeling, data visualization, and/or machine learning. Work will include projects on development of statistical models to predict flu test performance, programming data visualizations to report modeling results (e.g., Python or R). Our project is very fast-paced with evolving project landscape and opportunities. Positions will initially be short term but could evolve into full time positions. Candidates should have a high intellectual drive, clarity of thinking, ability to define goals and drive them to completion, and high standards for quality work.

Opportunities can be scaled for applicants with BS, MS, PhD including current students

• short-term projects (e.g., 2 weeks to perform literature search and make a statistical calculation)
• summer projects (e.g., 1 month to write a program for data visualization in Python or R)
• long-term position (e.g., significant model development, potentially help manage others)

Pay will be matched to experience. Candidates who also have interest in project management should express this interest in their cover letter.

Required experience:

·        biostatistics, multivariate modeling, data visualization, and/or machine learning.

·        candidates at all levels will be considered from current students, to postdocs (PhD), to career scientists and those with management career goals.

Desirable experience:

·        Experience working on healthcare or clinical problems, especially for higher-level positions.

How to apply:  send your resume and a coverletter indicating your experience, timeframe of availability, and overall goals to Barry Lutz (blutz@uw.edu) with FLUATHOME in the subject line.

Hiya Huskies!

We’re excited to offer you 2 different career seminars in Autumn 2019. The first is for those that want to learn more about how to be successful in their career after graduation and is aimed at seniors. The second is for those that want to learn skills for job hunting and job interviewing (pre/co-req: CSE 332). Read on to learn more!

CSE 492 P1: Patterns for Career Success

Taught By: Philip Su, CEO of Audere

Tuesdays 4:30 – 5:20

As with the science of computing, careers in computing also have models, patterns, and anti-patterns.  This interactive seminar, led by a 20-year industry veteran from Facebook and Microsoft who now leads a Seattle tech nonprofit funded by the Gates Foundation, covers insights across a gamut of topics that will accelerate your career.

This pass/fail seminar will include around 15 mins of weekly assignments, and is intended primarily for seniors.  The same instructor led this highly-rated seminar in Spring 2018 with a slightly longer format.

Join us to learn tips for growing quickly toward your goals while avoiding common pitfalls.

CSE 492 J: Landing a Job in the Software Industry

Taught By: Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Counselor and Katherine Wang, Interviewing Extraordinaire

Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:20

This seminar is targeted at students who have already completed 332 (or are taking it during Autumn 2019) and need help building their confidence for pursuing software engineering jobs (internship and full-time). Kim and Kat will take you through the recruiting process end-to-end: resumes, applying, career fairs, interacting with recruiters, INTERVIEWING, negotiating, etc. The bulk of the course will be focused on software engineering interview techniques.

This pass/fail seminar will include an optional weekly workshop on Thursdays @ 12:30 PM.

Note that this seminar is not a good fit for anyone who has already had multiple internships or has had multiple successful experiences interviewing for software opportunities. There will be no exceptions for students that do not meet the CSE 332 pre/co-req.

If you have any questions about either course, please reach out to Kim Nguyen: kim@cs.washington.edu

FYI: Starting in Fall 2019, we will have a new course number, 492,  for 400 level seminars. Seminars are usually graded credit/no credit. The CSE 490 number will be used for special topics or new course offerings (usually graded). This will hopefully alleviate some of the confusion between traditional courses and seminars.

• Graded CSE 490 courses always count as CSE senior electives, but not always core.

• 492 seminars: students may petition to have either one credit of seminar or 2 credits of CSE 301 (Internships credit) apply to their CSE senior electives, but not both.  This is often helpful if a student is 1 or 2 credits short of required CSE Senior Electives

Cryptography Course – CSE 490c New Fall 2019 (Core Course, 4 credits)

Prereqs: 312 and 332

Cryptography provides important tools for ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive digital data. Core cryptographic tools, such as encryption and digital signature, are used daily behind millions of online transactions, and form the basis for more advanced cryptographic systems, such as, cryptocurrency.

This course gives an introduction to cryptography, by focusing on the design and application of selected important cryptographic objects. For each cryptographic object, we formalize its functionality and security requirements (also known as security definitions), present schemes that achieve the desired functionality, and explain why they are secure.

Overall, we aim to survey the cryptography landscape, train cryptographic thinking, and convey proper usage of important cryptographic tools.

CSE 490 R: 4 credits,  (Will move to CSE 478 number soon) (core course or CSE senior elective): Autonomous robots

Prereqs: 332 required, Math 308 (recommended) and CSE 312 (recommended)

Autonomous Robots delves into the building blocks of autonomous systems that operate in the wild. We will cover topics related to state estimation (bayes filtering, probabilistic motion and sensor models), control (feedback, Lyapunov, LQR, MPC), planning (roadmaps, heuristic search, incremental densification) and online learning. Students will be forming teams and implementing algorithms on 1/10th sized rally cars as part of their assignments. Concepts from all of the assignments will culminate into a final project with a demo on the rally cars. The course will involve programming in a Linux and Python environment along with ROS for interfacing to the robot.

CSE 490 G1 , 4 credits, (linked to CSE 599): Introduction to Deep Learning: (CSE Senior Elective, core course)

Prereqs: 446 OR 455 OR 416

Description: A survey class of neural network implementation and applications. Topics include: optimization – stochastic gradient descent, adaptive and 2nd order methods, normalization; convolutional neural networks – image processing, classification, detection, segmentation; recurrent neural networks – semantic understanding, translation, question-answering; cross-domain applications – image captioning, vision and language.

Stressed for finals? Drop in at our Smash Bros. “tournament” this Friday, June 7th at 4-6 pm in the ACM lounge in CSE1. We will have multiple Nintendo Switches set up with Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Overcooked. Some free snacks and drinks will be provided for ACM members.

We hope to see you there!

Apply now to be an at-large representative for the Student Advisory Council! We are currently looking for undergraduate and 5th year master students to join our team. This is a great opportunity for you to develop soft skills and shape your Allen School experience. You will have the opportunity to have a real impact on the school and represent your peers. Past events we have organized included discussion forums and industry panels.  We are looking for a diverse team and look forward to reading your application! Apply online at: https://forms.gle/Afbxb1R3oho38Fcz8

Applications close June 7th, 2019 at 11:59pm.

Hi all,

Tableau will be providing pizza to get us through dead week on Wednesday, June 5th at 5:30PM. Stop by and get free pizza at the undergraduate commons in CSE2! This time we will be requiring RSVP’s so please sign up here to let us know you are coming.  

Good luck on all your studies!

Join ACM for our spring quarter Quiz Bowl Night on Friday, May 31st from 5:00pm to 6:00pm at CSE G01! Come hang out with friends, grab some snacks, and answer some general trivia in a Quiz Bowl style competition to win some prizes!

If you would like to sign up with your friends as a team, please have ONE person from the team sign up here: https://forms.gle/dbxxammdmP7UT7mX6

Or, if you would rather meet some new people, you can sign up to be randomly assigned a team here: https://forms.gle/hRtNSTXDewg3d5UZ6

We hope to see many of you there!

Dear Students!

This year the Allen School will send students to both the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Funding from CSE will include airfare, hotel (shared), and conference registration. Along with sending both undergraduate and graduate students to the conferences for personal and professional development, the Allen School is sponsoring booths for PhD student recruitment.

Read on to learn more about each conference and to apply for funding to attend!

ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

September 18-21, 2019 — San Diego, CA

The goal of the Tapia Conferences is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to:

• • Celebrate the diversity that exists in computing;
  • Connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, and gender so as to create communities that extend beyond the conference;
  • Obtain advice from and make contacts with computing leaders in academia and industry;
  • Be inspired by great presentations and conversations with leaders with common backgrounds.

Apply for Allen School TAPIA funding by June 10.

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

October 1-4, 2019 — Orlando, FL
Grace Hopper is the largest gathering of technical women in the world, an exciting celebration of diversity in tech, and a fantastic academic and professional opportunity. GHC features professional and personal development workshops, a career fair, social activities, and research presentations. Past attendees have generally found GHC incredibly valuable for connecting with peers and industry, exploring grad school, and feeling inspired in their CS work.
Apply for Allen School GRACE HOPPER funding by June 10.

Please apply for either conference funding by June 10. We will notify those selected to attend by June 14.

Les Sessoms, MA
Recruitment & Retention Specialist | Graduate Programs
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352355 | Seattle, WA 98195-2355
Ph:  206-221-2784
www.cs.washington.edu

Speaker: Dr. Patricia Churchland

Are you itching to put your knowledge to the test and compete against your Allen School peers?

Join ACM for our spring quarter trivia night on Friday, May 31st from 5:00PM to 6:00PM at CSE G01! Come hang out with friends, grab some snacks and answer questions about pop culture, CSE and more to win prizes.

Whether you didn’t get a chance to participate in our trivia event during Fall Fest or you participated and couldn’t get enough of it, this is your chance to get your fill of  CSE trivia.

We hope to see many of you there!