January 2021 - Gradstudents - mailman.cs.vt.edu

CS|Source Spring 2021 Career Fair Events
by britf91＠vt.edu 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi Students, CS|Source career fair events begin a week! Please be sure to get your resume ready and uploaded into Handshake. You'll also need it when you register for the career fair event on Brazen. We have an outstanding group of employers excited to meet you! Events are all virtual through the Brazen and Zoom platforms and you can join with any device. As you prepare, here are some key reminders and resources: Click <https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source/cs-source-events.html> CS|Source to find schedules and helpful information. Click "For students" and under Helpful Links, see two videos with tips for virtual events. Research companies!! Before you talk with any employers make sure you know something about them. Ask questions from the information you've learned on their profiles. Research employers at <https://www.cs-source.cs.vt.edu/assnfe/CompanySearch.asp?MODE=FINDMEMBERS> CS|Source Member Directory. Regretfully, these member companies will be unable to attend the career fair, but will be connecting with students during the semester: Deutsche Bank, Ford Motor Company, Simon Computing, and WillowTree. Student registration for the career fair will begin on Wednesday, February 3. Registration links will follow. Please note, registrations are not interest lists - we need to know if you're actually planning to attend so we and employers can make final preparations. Please use your VT email on all sign-ups and registrations. Update your resume on <https://career.vt.edu/job-search/Handshake/handshake-student-info.html> Handshake by Monday, February 2 to provide employers with enough time to review. Information Sessions also begin this week. Use the links below to register for these events. Please only register if you plan to attend. Company Session Sign up Links: CoStar Group - Monday February 01, 2021 from 12:00pm-1:00pm https://virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcOGgqT0oEtWRgyexUbOmM1ROFP 6peb8s Deloitte - Networking Tips and Tricks with Deloitte - Monday February 01, 2021 from 6:00pm-7:00pm https://deloitte.zoom.us/j/92246707579?pwd=MXgwWTdvYVQ4Z0hMKzltZjlLZldKZz09 Peraton - Friday February 05, 2021 from 12:00pm-1:00pm https://virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcufuirrj0pHN2zJxx6xOFM5mA8W7 sJ3bVv MITRE - Friday February 05, 2021 from 4:00pm-5:00pm https://virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sfumvrTspHd3Rfi-JVsRqQ-Fk09 O_qn9i Bloomberg - Coffee Chat Tuesday, February 2, 2021 from 1:00pm-4:00pm https://tinyurl.com/yaf59acr (you will receive an additional email to select your personal 15-minute time slot) Brazen Resources Brazen support: <https://support.brazenconnect.com> https://support.brazenconnect.com Brazen attendee support: <https://support.brazenconnect.com/hc/en-us/categories/1500000013481-Attende es> https://support.brazenconnect.com/hc/en-us/categories/1500000013481-Attendee s Brazen System Requirements <https://support.brazenconnect.com/hc/en-us/articles/202377628-System-requir ements> Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Brittany Rasmussen (Finn) Event Specialist Department of Computer Science 1139 Knowledge Works II 2202 Kraft Drive <https://maps.google.com/?q=225+Stanger+St.+Blacksburg,+VA+24061&entry=gmail &source=g> Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: (540) 231-1369

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[MS/PhD Students] Student Activity Reports and early graduation
by Cliff Shaffer 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hello! Those of you who have been in the program since at least last Spring will already be familiar with the Student Activity Reports that MS/PhD students fill out around April. For new students, don't worry -- there will be plenty of emails notifying you about the process later this semester! [For MEng students, we are working out the details of how your evaluation process will work.] This email is primarily intended for students who will schedule their final defense earlier than the standard April due date for the SARs. Since we use these in part for program evaluations, we need to make sure that everyone leaves us with a somewhat up-to-date SAR before the leave. So, if you are an MS or PhD student who will be scheduling your final exam this Spring, I will require you to complete your SAR form before I approve the final exam schedule. When you are ready to schedule your exam, please go to gpc.cs.vt.edu and sign in. Then click on the SAR menu at the top, create or edit your SAR. For those of you who have done one in the past, you should just need to update your last version. -- Dr. Cliff Shaffer Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer

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Introducing: Trey Mayo
by Cliff Shaffer 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Hello! I want to introduce and welcome Trey Mayo. His official title is Director of Graduate Programs for the CS Department. He will be assisting Dr. Hooshangi and myself with many aspects of running our various graduate programs, most importantly helping us to plan for and roll out new initiatives. Many of you will interact with him during your time in our department going forward. -- Dr. Cliff Shaffer Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science Phone: (540) 231-4354 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 WWW: www.cs.vt.edu/~shaffer

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Seminar Friday at noon
by Cal Ribbens 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Friday, 12:00 pm Ivan De Oliveira Nunes (UCI) "Building Sensors that Cannot Lie: Verifiable Integrity in Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems" abstract: https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/IvanDeOliveiraNunes.html zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/84388630222?pwd=SmJ0MU1hQ3Q4VENHU1dMN0dZZ2xl… -- Head, Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech https://cs.vt.edu/People/Faculty/cal-ribbens.html https://twitter.com/CalRibbens_VTCS

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CS|Source Company Spotlight - CACI International
by Julia Costello 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hi CS Students, CACI International, a member of CS|Source, is a national security technology and software company. They are spotlighted this month as one of our highest level (Stakeholder) employers. Their commitment to hiring CS Hokies is evident. CS undergraduates account for their “largest single-school pool” of interns. Read more at: https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source/spotlights/caci.html and check out their website at careers.caci.com for the latest internship and full-time opportunities. They will be attending the spring CS|Source career fair on February 8. Regards, Julia Julia Costello Strategic Partnership Coordinator Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science 2202 Kraft Drive | Blacksburg, VA 24060 Phone: 540.231.8945 | Email: juliapc7(a)cs.vt.edu CS|Source Website: https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source.html CS|Source Portal: https://www.cs-source.cs.vt.edu CS|Source Portal Auto Emails From: cs-source(a)cssource.cs.vt.edu

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Graduate Student Assembly in DC -Meet & Greet
by Sara Hooshangi 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

This email might be of interest to Northern Virginia students. Graduate Student Assembly in DC Meet & Greet After Hours - This Thursday! Student gatherings, Q&As, and more... When: Thursday, January 28, 6 PM - 7 PM Zoom link: http://bit.ly/GSAHour21 <http://bit.ly/GSAHour21>

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CS|Source Career Fair Info
by Julia Costello 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi Students! CS|Source career fair events begin a week! Please be sure to get your resume ready and uploaded into Handshake. You’ll also need it when you register for the career fair event on Brazen. We have an outstanding group of employers excited to meet you! Events are all virtual through the Brazen and Zoom platforms and you can join with any device. As you prepare, here are some key reminders and resources: Click CS|Source to find schedules and helpful information. Click “For students” and under Helpful Links, see two videos with tips for virtual events. Research companies!! Before you talk with any employers make sure you know something about them. Ask questions from the information you’ve learned on their profiles. Research employers at CS|Source Member Directory. Regretfully, these member companies will be unable to attend the career fair, but will be connecting with students during the semester: Deutsche Bank, Ford Motor Company and WillowTree. Student registration for the career fair will begin on Wednesday, February 3. Registration links will follow. Please note, registrations are not interest lists – we need to know if you’re actually planning to attend so we and employers can make final preparations. Please use your VT email on all sign-ups and registrations. Update your resume on Handshake by Monday, February 2 to provide employers with enough time to review. Brazen Resources Brazen support: https://support.brazenconnect.com Brazen attendee support: https://support.brazenconnect.com/hc/en-us/categories/1500000013481-Attende… If you have any questions, please let us know. We’re looking forward to seeing you at events!! Thanks, Julia Julia Costello Strategic Partnership Coordinator Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science 2202 Kraft Drive | Blacksburg, VA 24060 Phone: 540.231.8945 | Email: juliapc7(a)cs.vt.edu CS|Source Website: https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source.html CS|Source Portal: https://www.cs-source.cs.vt.edu CS|Source Portal Auto Emails From: cs-source(a)cssource.cs.vt.edu

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Re: [Gradstudents] CRA annual student survey
by Cal Ribbens 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

One more reminder and encouragement to participate in this national survey, which helps us work with other schools to improve our programs. Thanks! Dr. R. On 11/18/20 3:13 PM, Cal Ribbens wrote: > Dear CS Grad Students, > > The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an important organization > that advocates on behalf of computer science departments in North > America. CRA is interested in career development among students. To > that end, I encourage you to complete their survey, which will take > about 25 minutes to complete. > > Your contribution to this research helps us understand factors related > to academic retention and persistence. > > In exchange for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a > raffle to win one of ten $20.00(USD) Amazon gift cards. > > If you are interested in completing the survey, please follow the link > below: > > https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dniVZnp4lWWD2qV/?id=vt > > Note that if you completed a survey for CRA in the past, you may have > been contacted directly by CRA. If you have already completed this > survey, please disregard this message. > > Many thanks! > > Dr. Ribbens -- Head, Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech https://cs.vt.edu/People/Faculty/cal-ribbens.html https://twitter.com/CalRibbens_VTCS

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Student-Advisor Relationship Workshop: Today at 5:00 PM
by Shakiba Davari 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Dear all, Just wanted to remind you about today's Student-Advisor Relationship Workshop at 5:0 PM. In this workshop, we will discuss how to create and nurture a healthy relationship between you and your advisor. The format will include a talk by Bryan Hanson, the graduate ombudsperson, and a panel of professors (Professors Bowman, Butt, North, and Shaffer) who are great role-models as advisors, and who could share with us some tips on how to navigate this long-term relationship. We will also have a panel of students: (Cory Ilo, Kylie Davidson, and Lindah Kotut) who have developed healthy relationships with their advisors and would like to share their experience with you. Registration from here <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-2sqzMrGdyhTN1SqKCZ4YfZ0…> . To access the zoom, please use the link from the Calendar Event <https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=dnQuZWR1X240bnQ0aGdlNTBrdjdqajFjZD…> . *Stay Healthy and Happy,* *Shakiba Davari* *Ph.D. Student, **3D-Interaction Group, **Computer Science**, * *Virginia Tech* *President, Computer Science Graduate Council <https://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/>* *, * *Virginia Tech* *Pronoun: She/her * *E-mail <sdavari(a)vt.edu> | Website <https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/sdavari>| 3DI-Lab <https://research.cs.vt.edu/3di/> *

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Monday faculty candidate seminar: Toby Li
by Douglas Bowman 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Faculty & grad students, Please join us on Monday, Jan. 25, at 9:30 AM for our next CS faculty candidate seminar. The speaker will be Jiajun (Toby) Li <http://toby.li/> from Carnegie Mellon University. The seminar Zoom link will be: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/82099201160?pwd=Tmc0c0wvYlcvc09kNkZsbW9RdjRH… <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/82099201160?pwd=Tmc0c0wvYlcvc09kNkZsbW9RdjRH…> Title, abstract, and bio are below. Best, Doug Human-Centered Interactive Systems for Configuring, Extending, and Developing AI Applications Toby Li PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University Monday, January 25, 2021 9:30am - 10:30am Zoom Only Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are emerging and affecting our lives in many aspects. However, the majority of individuals are merely users of AI with little capability to adapt AI to their own long-tail tasks, preferences, and interests that are not covered by the existing AI solutions. Democratizing AI to empower the individuals to create, configure, and extend AI-powered systems requires a new human-centered approach to guide the users to provide more effective inputs to the AI systems, and to enable the systems to better understand and to generalize from inputs in the user’s natural style. In this talk, I will present my research on designing, developing, and studying (1) a new smartphone interactive task learning agent that empowers end-users to teach new tasks, concepts, and automation rules using the combination of natural language instructions and demonstrations on existing third-party app GUIs; and (2) a new developer tool that allows developers without natural language processing expertise to bootstrap a task-oriented conversational bot from existing mobile apps using the task model extracted from the app interaction traces. These projects examplify my approach of combining human-centered methods with AI techniques to create new novel interfaces and system capabilities that facilitate effective human-AI collaboration, lowering the barriers to customizing, extending, and developing AI applications for end-users and non-expert developers. Biography: Toby Jia-Jun Li is a final year Ph.D. candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Brad A. Myers. He also works closely with Tom M. Mitchell. Toby works at the intersection of HCI, applied AI, and human factors in software engineering, where he uses human-centered methods to design, build, and study interactive systems to empower end- users and novice programmers to create, configure, and extend AI-powered computing systems. Toby has authored more than 15 publications in premier academic venues across HCI, NLP, and systems (e.g., CHI, UIST, CSCW, ACL, MobiSys, VL/HCC), including three award-winning papers. Toby’s work is supported by a Yahoo! Fellowship through the InMind project, by J.P. Morgan, and by NSF. You can find out more about Toby at http://toby.li/. -- Doug A. Bowman Frank J. Maher Professor, Computer Science Director, Center for Human-Computer Interaction Senior Fellow, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology Virginia Tech dbowman(a)vt.edu https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/author/dbowman/ Group: https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/ Center: http://hci.vt.edu/ Twitter: @CHCI_VT

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