Newsletter for 02/13/2022

New Announcements

Announcements

Winter 2022 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.

Monday, January 10th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment

If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee.  Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units. 

Monday, January 10th Graduate Student Part-Time Status

This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees.  Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline.  Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.

Thursday, January 13th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Winter 2022), 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.

Monday, January 24th Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses.  You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.

Friday, March 4th Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.

IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading.  Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.

Friday, March 4th Late Add with Fee Deadline

The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.

Friday, March 18th Leave of Absence Winter 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. 

Spring 2022 Deadlines for TA Appointments

Applications Due:
Monday, January 31st

Assign/Notify TA:
Friday, February 18th

TA Accept By:
Friday, February 25th

SDSC's HPC/CI Training Series 2022 - Register today!

We are looking to reach out to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff at all UC campuses who may be interested in a training program on High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cyberinfrastructure (CI). This program allows students the opportunity for hands-on experience with SDSC’s latest supercomputer, Expanse. 

FLYER: HPC-CI_Training_Series.png

UCSC TAPS Vanpool

The UCSC Vanpool program is accepting UCSC students, faculty, and staff for new and existing vanpool routes. Join one of the UCSC vanpools from Watsonville, Monterey, or Salinas, or form a new group that wants to commute together, save money and enjoy the ride with other UCSC affiliates. Our Monterey and San Jose routes are looking for staff or grad students who want to train to be full-time or part-time van drivers. Find out if you qualify and you could have your fees fully or partially waived. Email vanpool-group@ucsc.edu to take advantage of a free trial to see if vanpooling is for you!

UC HSI Pre Professoriate Fellows CALL

A note regarding students receiving a Master’s en route: if a student did not earn a bachelor’s degree from a California HSI, and was not enrolled in a master’s program at a California HSI, but was awarded a master’s degree en route to the PhD (at a UC HSI), that student should NOT be considered eligible for this fellowship. If a student was enrolled in and completed a master’s degree at a California HSI (including a UC HSI), that student is eligible for the fellowship (regardless of whether or not the student completed a bachelor’s degree at a California HSI). It is incumbent upon the graduate divisions to ensure that this guideline is followed. Beyond being contrary to the spirit of the Initiative, awarding the fellowship to a UC HSI student who earned a master’s en route to a PhD but does not hold a bachelor’s degree from a California HSI creates inequity for UC students, since not all PhD programs award a master’s degree en route.

Eligibility Criteria

·       Must be exceptional students (as demonstrated by their research achievements).

·       Must have received their bachelor’s or master’s degree (please see Master’s definitions and criteria above) from a California Hispanic Serving Institution (CA HSI)—public or private. Associate degrees from California community colleges do not meet the criteria/eligibility.

·       Must have advanced to candidacy prior to being selected for the fellowship.

·       Must have letters of support from Faculty Advisor(s) that address the student’s performance and potential as an exceptional academic, and comment on the likelihood that the student will pursue a professoriate path after receiving their PhD.

·       Must have a demonstrated record of advancing issues of inclusion, equity, and diversity; actively supporting underrepresented communities; and show commitment to pursuing these efforts throughout their career.

If you know of students who meet the eligibility criteria, please encourage them to apply. Interested students should submit the following materials to Assistant Dean, Stephanie Casher (scasher@ucsc.edu) by Friday, February 18, 2022:

Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering Nomination Form

The Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering will be awarded annually to the student who produces the best PhD dissertation in experimental engineering. To qualify for the Long Prize, dissertations must include results that are amenable to experimental confirmation; the prize is not intended to recognize purely theoretical work. A committee of experimentalist faculty will evaluate nominations and determine the recipient.

Darrell Long is a Distinguished Professor of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and inaugural holder of the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research. He is inaugural Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Letters of the Computer Society, and Editor-in-Chief, emeritus, of the ACM Transactions on Storage. In 2002, he was the founder of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), one of the most prestigious venues in the computer data storage field. Professor Long’s research interests include computer data storage, operating systems, distributed computing, and computer security. He met his wife Elaine when they were children in elementary school, and they married in 2016 to share their golden years.

We are seeking nominations of graduating PhD students for the 2022 Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering. This endowment, which will continue to grow and offer prizes moving forward, has an expected award of $1684 this year.

This award is eligible to students who:
- are graduating with a PhD in the 2021-2022 academic year
- have a significant experimental component to their research
- are in any academic department or program

Each department can submit up to 2 nominations. Please include:
- a nomination letter from a faculty member
- the student's CV
- the PhD thesis abstract

Deadline to Apply: Friday, March 11, 2022

UC Love Data Week workshops and call for proposals

These are data-focused online workshops, talks, and presentations for February 14-18, 2022 from a variety of UC campuses. Please encourage your students to take a look; lots of free skill building opportunities here from across the UC System.

Additionally there is a !CALL FOR PROPOSALS! This year Love Data Week will include a session of (remote) lightning talks from students on Friday Feb 18th, 2022. Any UC student working on a research or personal project is eligible to participate. This is a great opportunity to share your projects and practice your presentation skills! The deadline is January 28 (this Friday!) which is short notice, but I wanted to give everyone here the chance to apply regardless. Talks are intended to highlight your  “journey with data” in three slides over three minutes. Proposals will be reviewed for (1) appropriateness and relevance of topic to Love Data Week, (2) organization and clarity of proposal, and (3) creativity. Follow the link to apply: https://bit.ly/LDW2022LT

CSE 247 (Projects in Artificial Intelligence) is Accepting Applications for Spring 2022

Career Compass

Check out upcoming events from the Career Center!

Poster: Career_Compass_Poster.pdf

Transforming Structures of Whiteness in University Leadership

The Center for Racial Justice is happy to announce an upcoming series centered on the research and writing of Associate Professor of Psychology Rebecca Covarrubias and graduate student Katherine Quinteros! 

Please join us for the event series titled: Transforming Structures of Whiteness in University Leadership.  Please save the dates and register below.  More information to follow

FLYER: Transforming_Structures_Whiteness.pdf

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Events

CSE & CE MS Students: Forum on How to Meet the MS Capstone Requirements

The CSE Graduate Advising Team will be hosting a CSE Winter Forum on how to meet the MS Capstone requirements.

At the event, we'll address frequently asked questions we receive from students about the MS Capstone requirements. We'll also provide recommendations on how to select the Capstone Plan that's right for you, identify and confirm a faculty advisor, enroll in the required Capstone course for your program, and how to collaborate effectively with your faculty advisor.

The CSE Winter Forum will be held via Zoom from 12pm to 1pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 15th.

To attend the event, please register by no later than 10am Pacific Time on February 15th by completing the following form: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtce2tpzwoHNZ7RxgtAcgQJnoyeTPx2mvh

Please note that you may be required to use your UCSC account to register for the event and to access the event via Zoom.

Please email cse-gradadvising@ucsc.edu if you have any questions about the event.

CSE Career Success Workshop

Jobs

The University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering is Hiring!

The University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering currently
has 28 open faculty positions across all schools in the college. These
positions include tenure track positions in academic schools as well
as ranked renewable term positions to support our lower level
engineering curriculum. We would welcome applications from your
graduating PhD students. Please share this opportunity with them.

Information about The Gallogly College of Engineering (GCoE) at the
University of Oklahoma (OU):

OU is committed to building additional strength in engineering through
recruiting, retention, and research as we work to achieve the
ambitious goals of our strategic plan (http://www.ou.edu/coe/about).
GCoE currently enrolls 3200 undergraduate students and 800 graduate
students; our undergraduate student body is diverse with 29% of our
students reporting their identity as URM and 25% reporting their
identity as women. We seek faculty candidates who are committed to the
values of diversity, equity, and inclusion and who practice those
values in all activities of faculty activity. For more information
about the University of Oklahoma, visit http://soonerway.ou.edu. To
apply for a faculty position, you may use Soonerway and filter by
engineering program, or you may navigate to the link
https://www.ou.edu/coe/about/hiring to view our webpage.

FLYER: Gallogly_Oklahoma_Flyer.pdf

Rice University ECE is Hiring in the Field of Digital Health!

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is searching for outstanding candidates with research interests in engineering innovations that could transform future healthcare systems. Applicants with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering or related fields are encouraged to apply. 

Rice ECE invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the area of digital health, broadly defined. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to bio-imaging/sensing, medical imaging,
multi-omics, personalized health, bio-electronics, wearables and point-of-care devices, machine learning for health, AR/VR/visualization for health, and robotics for health. A particular focus will be on research that directly relates to detecting, monitoring, and treating chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, mental health, and neurodegenerative diseases that have an outsized disease burden. Candidates whose work directly addresses issues of equity and access in health are especially encouraged to apply. These areas should not be considered limiting, and any candidate who believes their work directly impacts digital health or at the intersection of health and engineering is encouraged to apply. More experienced senior candidates amid transformative research projects and with particular experience building institutional equity across their fields may also be considered. 

We strive for greater representation of women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans in disciplines in which they have historically been underrepresented, and strongly encourage such applicants for these faculty positions. 

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor: https://apply.interfolio.com/100011

Tenure Track SIUE

The Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, have another open tenure-track position that should start in August 2022.

FLYER: Tenure_Track_SIUE.pdf

Opportunities at Alchemist Network Companies

Post-Doctoral Position at Santa Clara University

Our Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University is excited to offer a position of Inclusive Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellow beginning next September. We are looking for people eager to combine teaching and research, with specialties in Security or Data Science. 

The goal of the IEPD program is to support the early development of teaching scholars from historically underrepresented groups. Post-docs serve for two years with a reduced teaching load of one course per quarter, with the expectation of developing into competitive candidates for a tenure-stream search at SCU in Winter 2023.

Information about the position can be found at this link or by simply searching our SCU HR website. Our strategic plan calls on us to “recruit and retain outstanding faculty members whose teaching, research, and life experience enrich the diversity of Santa Clara’s academic community with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender.” Last year, our recruitment efforts resulted in twenty of twenty-seven new tenure-stream hires being people of color, helping us to build a critical mass of diverse faculty. Candidates are welcome to contact the chair of our search committee, Professor Nicholas Tran, at ntran@scu.edu or Frank Farris, chair of the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at ffarris@scu.edu.

System SW Engineer

SOLAB SK hynix America

Please follow up with Larry Huynh larry.huynh@us.skhynix.com and Jongryool Kim <ongryool.kim@us.skhynix.com if interested

Job Duties:

·         Individual technical contributor within the research team focused on next generation storage/memory systems.

·         Design, prototype (SW) and evaluate new fabric attached memory/storage solutions

·         Present a working prototype and technical concepts to top industry conferences.

·         Work with other team members toward prototyping efforts including defining component level requirements of memory/storage components.

·         Verbal/written communication with both internal and external collaborators

Requirements:

·         MS or a higher degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields.

·         Strong software engineering skills with C/C++/Python is required.

·         Good understanding of Object Storage, File Systems, or In-Memory DB.

·         Good working knowledge or experience in Tensorflow, Spark/Hadoop system.

·         Good knowledge of CPU, GPU, FPGA, memory controllers

·         Additional knowledge of server architecture including processor, memory interfaces covering HQ, SoC, and FW/SW is a strong plus

·         Experience in working at various levels of the system stack (low level to high level) is a plus.