Newsletter for 03/06/2022

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. 

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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Energy Division Open House

The California Public Utilities Commission's Energy Division will be holding Open House Sessions on the dates and times listed below. Please view the Energy Division Recruiting Webpage<https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/about-cpuc/divisions/energy-division/energy-division-recruiting> for more information about how to sign up. Feel free to inform anyone you feel may be interested in attending a session.

  *   Thursday, March 03, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (PST)
  *   Thursday, March 03, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. (PST)
  *   Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (PST)
  *   Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. (PST)

Find out about:

  *   Open Positions
  *   Work we do
  *   Benefits and salary
  *   Other topics you're interested in

For more information, please reach out to energydivisionrecruiting@cpuc.ca.gov<mailto:energydivisionrecruiting@cpuc.ca.gov>

LEED Training - California - Winter Webinars

Make your resume stand out with the premier sustainability designation called the LEED Green Associate! LEED is simply a sustainability scorecard for green buildings. As buildings can become LEED Certified, people can become LEED accredited! The best way to break into the sustainability space is to attain the LEED Green Associate. It also shows employers and clients you have certified knowledge in the field. Since the LEED GA exam doesn’t have a stellar pass rate, the value of the extra letters behind your name will carry even more weight.

Our engaging webinars have helped over 10K students and professionals learn the material cold AND clear the exam with a very high passing rate. The LEED Professional Designation has helped past participants attain internships and jobs and now is a great time to add this credential.

LEED Green Associate (GA) Training - Webinar and Online self-paced options:

I will be offering live webinars that can be streamed on any of the following dates:
 

The above options (1-7) are all identical.

Register for a live webinar or start today with our on-demand recorded workshop completed anytime at your own pace here - https://leadinggreen.com/online

This course is instructed by a USGBC Faculty member and is the most effective way to pass. The USGBC charges a $100 (reduced for students) fee for the actual exam which can now be taken online from home. Save money by reserving your spot today and make a positive difference in your career!

Cost: $200 - Students can use the coupon code ‘green’ for $50 off (Discounted course price $150)

Save your seat by registering here for our live or self-paced options - https://leadinggreen.com/online

Please contact the instructor Lorne directly with any questions at info@leadinggreen.com

TA for CSE 163: Data Visualization

CSE 163 will be offered during Fall 2022. The instructor is looking to train a few graduate students during Spring 2022 to acquire skills to become a TA for this class during Fall 2022. If the graduate student is a MS student, the instructor may further be willing to supervise a MS project or thesis.

Interested students may apply or send queries to Suresh Lodha: lodha@soe.ucsc.edu with "Subject Title: Possible Interest in Training/TA for CSE 163: Data Visualization".

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

CSE Directed Reading Program

The CSE Directed Reading Program is an opportunity for graduate students to work one on one with undergraduates for a quarter to help them study an advanced topic that the graduate student is knowledgeable about. The program requires a 5 hour weekly time commitment, consisting of a 1 hour weekly meeting with your graduate mentor and 4 hours of independent study. In your weekly meeting you should discuss the past week's readings, discuss and clarify concepts together, and pick a direction/readings for the next week.  Study materials can include textbooks, research papers, online lectures, etc... The time commitment for graduate students is only 1 hour a week, and would provide valuable mentoring and teaching experience (and potentially future undergraduate research candidates). Participation would be on a quarter by quarter basis, so that if you get really busy one quarter or are no longer interested in mentoring you can stop participating easily.

If you are a graduate interested in participating as a mentor in the CSE Directed Reading Program in Spring 2022, please fill out the following form: Link

Please send me an email at evin@ucsc.edu if you have any questions, input or just want to discuss this further!

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!

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

Events

Investing 101 for Graduate Students

Join us for a 90-minute workshop that will cover critical investing concepts and tools that UCSC offers graduate students through Fidelity Investments. Economics Lecturer and  Investment Manager Patricia Kelly will introduce key terminology and concepts to demystify personal financial management and investing. Then, two Fidelity representatives will describe the ins and outs of several investment account options available to graduate students at UCSC and strategies for using investments for long-term financial planning. Lunch is provided to in-person attendees at 12:15 p.m. at the GSC. Please note that in-person attendance is capped at 25 people. We have plenty of room remaining for in-person attendance at present.

Jobs

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.

ECE Employment Opportunities - University of Maine

The University of Maine, an R1 Carnegie institution, has three faculty openings in its ECE Department. UMaine offers attractive salaries, employee benefits and startup packages.

Cyber Security and CPS Security
https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=73202&job=assistant-professor-of-electrical-and-computer-engineering-cyber-security-and-cps-security

Micro and Nanoelectronic Circuits
https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=73107&job=assistant-professor-of-electrical-and-computer-engineering-micro-and-nanoelectronic-circuits

Smart Grid and Renewable Energy
https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=73305&job=assistant-professor-of-electrical-and-computer-engineering-renewable-energy-and-smart-grid

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