Newsletter for 08/15/2021

New Announcements

Announcements

*PLEASE NOTE THE UPCOMING UNIVERSITY DEADLINES*

Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.

Wednesday, July 7th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Summer 2021), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.

Friday, August 27th Leave of Absence Summer Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline.  LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website. 

WRIT 203 - Fall Writing Course for Potential Graduate Student Instructors

The Writing Program is offering WRIT 203, Theories and Practices for Teaching Writing (#23569, WRIT 203-01 TuTh 1:30pm-3:05pm), in fall for interested graduate students who would like to learn more about writing pedagogy and/or to serve as future GSIs in the Writing Program. 

As noted on the attached flyer, "Synchronous Remote Instruction or In-Person - we will decide as a class".

The completion of WRIT 203 is required of graduate students who wish to apply to teach WRIT 2 with the Writing Program during our annual spring recruitment.

Graduate students may direct questions about the course to Teaching Professor Amy Vidali (avidali@ucsc.edu).

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CROSS Call for Proposals - Fall 2021

The Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) is seeking proposals for new research and incubator projects to be reviewed at the Fall 2021 CROSS Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting, which will be held October 5. 

Proposals are due on September 10. If a proposal is shortlisted, the project lead will be invited to make a 15-20 minute presentation to the CROSS IAB and Advisory Committee.  

The full Call for Proposals is available on the CROSS website at https://cross.ucsc.edu/projects/projectproposal.html. That page provides full details about how to apply, the criteria for selection, important dates and a list of suggested topics. 

UCSC faculty and PhD students who will have completed their class work by the end of Fall 2021 are encouraged to propose research projects. Funding for selected research projects cover the costs for one graduate student researcher (GSR) position. Research projects should raise a fundamental research question and open a plausible path to open source software that would be widely adopted.  Research projects should also fit within the list of suggested topics included in the Call. 

Recent PhD graduates or those graduating by the end of Fall 2021 from any university are welcome to propose incubator projects. Selected incubator projects fund one post-doc as an Open Source Fellow. This Fellowship is intended for postdoctoral scholars who want to grow contributor communities around their open source research prototypes and who can play the role of "open source ambassador" at UC Santa Cruz, including through exemplifying open source project and community management practices, sharing their experiences as a mentor to students, and as a classroom instructors for courses that teach students how to productively engage in open source projects.  The incubator proposal should also show strong evidence that the open source project would meet with great interest by at least one well-established open source community.

Contact CROSS (cross-info@ucsc.edu) if you have any questions about this Call or the submission process.

Grad Summer Activities Update Week 6!

UC Center Sacramento 2021-2022 STEM Solutions in Public Policy Award Competition

UC Center Sacramento is pleased to announce the 2021-2022 STEM Solutions in Public Policy Award.

This award will recognize one or more outstanding proposals for new California legislation from UC STEM graduate students. The winner(s) will receive $1,000 for research support and -- should their bill advance through the legislative process –travel expenses covering a trip to Sacramento to convene with Legislators and/or legislative staff.

Submissions will be accepted until midnight Pacific time on October 22^nd, 2021 and applicants will be notified of their status in December 2021. Further information is available at UCCS STEM Solutions or on the UCCS website (uccs.ucdavis.edu).

Summer Activities - Week 7

Events

AAPIRC Grad Co-Writing Session

WORKING ON A DISSERTATION CHAPTER, ARTICLE, CONFERENCE PROPOSAL OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF WRITING? JOIN THE AAPI RESOURCE CENTER AND  FELLOW AAPI-IDENTIFYING GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR A 2 HOUR CO-WRITING SESSION (BREAK NOT INCLUDED). TO BEGIN, WE WILL TAKE 5 MINUTES TO SET OUR GOALS. WE WILL WRITE IN 1 HOUR BLOCKS AND COME TOGETHER AT THE END TO REFLECT ON OUR WRITING EXPERIENCES.

WRITING WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAYS FROM 2:30-5:00 PM (PST)

July 29
August 5
August 12
August 19

Attendees Will Receive a $20 Target Gift Card For Each Session

Zoom Registration:
https://bit.ly/aapiwriting

Graduate Student Focused Off-Campus Housing Legal Services Consultation Session

Our partners at McManis Law are conducting consultations
specifically for graduate students on Wednesday, August 11th from 10:00 am
- 1:00 pm.

Understanding Leases: Entering them, Breaking them, and Everything In Between, drop-in hours for free legal consultation. Discuss your lease or potential lease with a qualified attorney to understand your rights and responsibilities, including any risks in early termination.

To reserve a time slot in advance, please email leaseday@mcmanislaw.com, or simply drop in during drop in hours listed.

To Drop-in, go to https://tinyurl.com/LeaseReviewDay.

You can also make an appointment: call 408-918-2091

FLYER: Lease_Review.png

Jobs

Data Scientist and Software/Data Engineer Opportunities with Belden

Belden is the leading company providing industrial communication solutions, including switch, wireless LAN, cellular, security, etc. We are enhancing our solutions using artificial intelligence to make them “smart” and more reliable for better user experience. We are looking for data scientists, senior data scientists, and senior software or data engineers to join our analytic team. The skill set of positions are listed below.

Data Scientists or Senior Data Scientists:

1. Master degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent degree. Ph.D is a plus.
2. Strong theoretic background in machine learning, deep learning, data mining, graph mining, network science, graph convolutional networks (GCNs), and artificial intelligence (e.g., inference). Other knowledge (e.g., computer network protocols) is a plus.
3. Strong hands-on skill in Python/Scalar. Very good in writing SQL queries.
4. Experience on following:

1. Popular frameworks/libraries (e.g., Hadoop/Spark, numpy, scipy, pandas, sklearn, tensorflow or similar, etc.)
2. AWS ecosystems (including S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, SageMaker, etc.) or similar stack
3. Streaming platform (e.g., Kafka) is a plus.

5. Good team player and willing to learn attitude.
6. Senior data scientist with 5+ years of working experience or data scientist with 2+ years of experience (will consider Ph.D intern without enough working experience).

Senior Software or Data Engineers:

1. Master degree in Computer Science, or equivalent degree.
2. Strong theoretic background in real-time operating Systems, embedded systems, and computer network protocols. Other knowledge (e.g., cloud computing, distributed system) is a plus.
3. Strong hands-on skill in C/C++/Java/Go.
4. Experience on following:

1. Embedded system
2. Container (e.g., Dockers or Kubernetes)
3. Streaming platform (e.g., Kafka) , and
4. AWS ecosystems (including S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, etc.) or similar stack is a plus

5. Good team player and willing to learn attitude.
6. Senior software or data engineers with 5+ years of working experience.

Please submit resume directly to Frank Howley at fhowley@ucsc.edu

Switchback Systems - Senior Research Associate/Research Associate

Please see the link for more information: Switchback_Systems_JD_RA_SRA_Biology.pdf

Switchback Systems - Senior Scientist (Chemistry)

Please see link for more information: Switchback_Systems_Senior_Scientist_Chemistry_JD.pdf

Switchback Systems - Senior Scientist (Molecular Biology)

Please see link for more information: Switchback_Systems_Senior_Scientist_MolBiol_JD.pdf

Now Hiring: Grad Student Positions

The Division of Student Affairs and Success is now hiring graduate students for its Mentor Collective Program.

See the attached flyer for more information: Grad_Position_Recruitment_Flyer.pdf