BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
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).
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.
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 22nd, 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
Summer Activities - Week 8
Events
TAPS Graduate Student Orientation
Event Date and Time: 10/01/2021 1:00 pmEvent Location: Zoom/Fireside Lounge
Grad Students welcome to UCSC!
UCSC's Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) will be offering an in
person/virtual event for Grad Students on October 1st at the Fireside
Lounge from 1:00P-2:00P.
We will cover all of TAPS' extensive transportation services to give
students and employees options on how they travel to and around campus.
Did you know...
- TAPS has frequent bike helmet and light distributions and bike safety
clinics for all bicycling Slugs? All for free?
- TAPS has a vanpool program with subsidized monthly fees with vans
coming in from South County, Monterey, Salinas, and San Jose?
- TAPS in partnership with Cruz511 promotes carpools, vanpools, bike
pools, buses and telecommuting with incentives and prizes?
- TAPS has a new newsletter giving tips and information on how to
sustainably travel to campus?
And there is so much more, like interest-free bike loans, carpool parking,
and individual parking options.
We look forward to meeting you and providing you answers to create
fantastic, stress free, economic, and enjoyable commute solutions. If
unable to join us in person, please join us on zoom.
https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/9516713
Flyer: TAPS_Orientation.png
Jobs
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
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:
- Master degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent degree. Ph.D is a plus.
- 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.
- Strong hands-on skill in Python/Scalar. Very good in writing SQL queries.
- Experience on following:
- Popular frameworks/libraries (e.g., Hadoop/Spark, numpy, scipy, pandas, sklearn, tensorflow or similar, etc.)
- AWS ecosystems (including S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, SageMaker, etc.) or similar stack
- Streaming platform (e.g., Kafka) is a plus.
- Good team player and willing to learn attitude.
- 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:
- Master degree in Computer Science, or equivalent degree.
- 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.
- Strong hands-on skill in C/C++/Java/Go.
- Experience on following:
- Embedded system
- Container (e.g., Dockers or Kubernetes)
- Streaming platform (e.g., Kafka) , and
- AWS ecosystems (including S3, Athena, Glue, Lambda, etc.) or similar stack is a plus
- Good team player and willing to learn attitude.
- 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