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

Fwd: Fellowship
by Cliff Shaffer 27 May '21

27 May '21

Grad students: FYI. Note that this one is a little different from the standard fellowship program (I sent around a notice for that one a couple weeks ago). Unfortunately, the link they give just takes you to the page for the 3rd-year PhD fellowship. For the Ada Lovelace Fellowship, you need to be entering your SECOND year of the PhD program, and you must qualify as an under-represented minority (details below). Nominations must come from the Department, and there is a limit on how many we can send. Therefore if you are interested, please send me email by end of the day on Friday, June 4. Be sure to explain why you would be competative for this fellowship (in particular, why you think your work is something that Microsoft will fund). *Funding Agency: * Microsoft Corporation Microsoft recognizes the value of diversity in computing. The Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship aims to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields by providing a research funding opportunity for doctoral students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, person with a disability, and/or LGBTQI+. Nominations for the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship will close on *Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Daylight Time*. A maximum of three nominations per department will be accepted; each nominee should help us increase the opportunities for students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, person with a disability, and/or LGBTQI+. Agency Website https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ada-lovelace-fell… <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ada-lovelace-fell…> Eligibility Requirements - Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Fellows should support this mission and embrace opportunities to foster diverse and inclusive cultures within their communities. - PhD students must be nominated by their university. Their nomination must be submitted by someone designated by the department chair’s office in order to ensure the number of nominations per department is not exceeded. - Students must be enrolled at a university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. Proposed research must be closely related to the general research areas carried out by Microsoft Research as noted in the *Research areas* tab above. *Research areas: Intelligence* · Artificial intelligence <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/artificial-intellige…> · Audio & acoustics <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/audio-acoustics/> · Computer vision <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/computer-vision/> · Graphics & multimedia <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/graphics-and-multime…> · Human-computer interaction <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/human-computer-inter…> · Human language technologies <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/human-language-techn…> · Search & information retrieval <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/search-information-r…> - Students must be in their second year of a PhD program in the fall semester or quarter of 2020. The department chair’s office at the nominating university will need to attest that the student is considered a second year PhD student having taken into account transfers, approved leaves of absence, etc. - A maximum of three nominations per department will be accepted; each nominee should help us increase the opportunities for students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, person with a disability, and/or LGBTQI+. Amount Description - Tuition and fees are covered for three academic years (2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). - A $42,000 USD stipend is provided to help with living expenses while in school for three academic years (2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). The stipend is not expected to cover all living expenses; it can be used for expenses including, but not limited to, childcare, conference fees and travel, research equipment, meals, rent, etc. - An invitation to the PhD Summit: a two-day workshop in the fall hosted by Microsoft Research where fellows will meet with Microsoft researchers and other top students to share their research. We hope to offer both a virtual and in-person participation option; we will continue to monitor local and national health and safety guidance and may hold a completely virtual event if advisable. Funding Type Fellowship Scholarship Eligibility African American Disabled Grad/Prof Students Hispanic Minorities encouraged Native American Women Women and minorities encouraged Women of Color -- 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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best paper at ICWE 2021
by Cal Ribbens 27 May '21

27 May '21

Congratulations to PhD student (now graduate) Kijin An and his advisor, Eli Tilevich, for their best paper award at the 21st International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2021) for their paper "Communicating Web Vessels: Improving the Responsiveness of Mobile Web Apps with Adaptive Redistribution." Cal -- 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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Cognate course: ECE 5714: Robust Estimation and Filtering
by Sara Hooshangi 25 May '21

25 May '21

Please see email below from Prof. Lamine (ECE) about ECE 5714: Robust Estimation and Filtering. This course can be used as a cognate. The course will be offered in Northern Virginia campus in Spring 2022. If you have any questions, please send him an email at lmili(a)vt.edu <mailto:lmili@vt.edu>. I don’t have any additional information. Thanks > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Lamine Mili <lmili(a)vt.edu <mailto:lmili@vt.edu>> > Could you please advertise the course ECE 5714: Robust Estimation and Filtering that I will be teaching in Spring 2022 among the students who took your class on ML. Information about ECE 5714 can be found in the following website: > > https://ece.vt.edu/grad/courses/5714 <https://ece.vt.edu/grad/courses/5714> > The syllabus of that course is attached. Please share it with your students. I will include some ML content in the course materials. > > Lamine >

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GRA Announcement with Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
by Trey Mayo 24 May '21

24 May '21

Please see the attached GRA opportunities with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative at Virginia Tech's Research Institute in Arlington, VA. For questions and more information, please contact Dr. Feras Batarseh at batarseh(a)vt.edu

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Nic Hardy M.S. Defense
by Kirk Cameron 23 May '21

23 May '21

Hi Everyone, Monday, Nic Hardy will be defending his M.S. thesis and you are invited to join. Please share with anyone that may be interested. Hope to see some of you there! -kwc Title: iLore: A Data Schema for Aggregating Disparate Sources of Computer System and Benchmark Information Time: May 10th, 2021 10:00 am Zoom Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/my/csgenome Meeting ID: 236 330 0803 Committee: Prof. Kirk Cameron (chair) Prof. Godmar Back Prof. Margaret Ellis Abstract: The era of modern computing has been the stage for numerous innovations that have led to cutting edge applications and systems. The characteristics of these systems and applications have been described and quantified by many, however such information is fragmented between various repositories of system and component information. In an effort to collate these disparate collections of information we propose iLore, an extensible data schema for representing computer systems and their components. We describe the iLore schema and the pipeline used to aggregate, clean, and insert system and component information into a database that uses iLore's schema. Additionally, we demonstrate how the database can be used to analyze trends in computing by validating the collected data using previous works, and by showcasing new analyses that were created with said data. Analyses and visualizations created via iLore are available at csgenome.org Bio: Nicolas Hardy is an MS student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His work focuses on high-performance computing and computer ancestry. Nicolas has been part of the CSGenome team for 3 years working on computer system data collection and analysis, and spent Summer 2020 at LLNL working on a memory-centric affinity algorithm, mpibind. In September, he will start his position as a software engineer at Amazon.

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[MS/PhD Students] Annual Student Evaluation Feedback, and GTA Position Request
by Cliff Shaffer 23 May '21

23 May '21

I have now completed the annual evaluation process for MS/PhD students. You may now access your evaluations from your advisor and from the department. To do so, go to https://gpc.cs.vt.edu, sign in, click on the menu item at the top that says SAR, and then click on "My SAR Status". This should show a listing of all SARs that you have submitted, and an associated link that says "View". Clicking there should access your SAR, along with the evaluations that you have received. This seems like a good time to discuss the GTA selection process for Fall semester. The first step to be considered for a GTA is that you *must* fill out and submit the GTA survey that is linked from https://hosting.cs.vt.edu/gta/. Even if you believe that you have a guaranteed GTA for Fall, you must complete the form to be considered. This is because so many grad students change to other funding sources (such as a GRA), and we have no way to know if you actually need the GTA this Fall unless you tell us (via the form). And this also lets us know what courses you are qualified to GTA for. NOTE: If you already completed the form for this Fall, you do NOT need to do it again. For those who want a GTA but do not have a funding guarantee from the Department this Fall, we use a ranking formula. Major factors in this formula include the milestones that you have completed (or, negatively, which milestones you are late on). Completing milestones (such as submitting your plan of study, completing the paperwork for the PhD qualifier, or scheduling your prelim exam) are great ways to raise yourself in the rankings. Now that the SAR/Green Thursday process is complete, we are actively working on generating the GTA request list and ranking information. We are hopeful that we will be able to send out our initial round of GTA offers in early June. We will periodically make further offers during the course of the summer, as people turn us down or move to other funding. We typically are making last-minute GTA offers right up until the first week of class. Please don't ask us what your GTA assignment will be. We won't know until the week before classes start. Sometimes class sections are added or removed, and the list of people who actually want a GTA changes throughout the summer. So it is not possible for us to reliably assign GTAs to courses until late in the process. *Faculty *-- If you plan to hire someone for a Fall GRA, please do so sooner rather than later! The sooner that people come off the GTA list, the sooner we can let the next person know that they will get funding. Thank you, and I hope that you all have a wonderful summer! -- 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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CS Grad Council Coffee Hour (Still Going On)
by Myles Frantz 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hey everyone! On behalf of the CS Graduate Council, I would like to invite you to join our Coffee Hour today at 6:00 pm. We will be hosting this event in the Discord server that you can join here <https://discord.gg/CfTYGjW84S>. We will be using the Coffee Hour channel in the Grad Council section. If you have any difficulties joining the Discord, feel free to reach out. Cheers, *------------------------------------------* Miles Frantz (*PhD.CS*) Ph.D. Student Vice President of VT CS Grad Student Council <https://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/> Timezone: EDT/EST (UTC - 4/AoE +8) Website <https://people.cs.vt.edu/~frantzme/> *|* Public Key <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xC1081F9E88F1F00B> *|* Lab <https://yaogroup.cs.vt.edu/> *|* Email <frantzme(a)vt.edu> *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:* The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.

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CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS
by Julia Costello 19 May '21

19 May '21

CS|SOURCE - EMPLOYER JOB POSTINGS AND EVENTS Please view the following opportunities and for available positions, click <https://career.vt.edu/job-search/Handshake.html> Handshake. OPPORTUNITY 1 Qualcomm, Wireless Research & Development division is looking for BS, MS, and PhD graduates from CE, EE, and CS between May - June 2021 with prior experience in C, C++, and Python. Two events are planned for today and next week for interested candidates to meet the division's VP of Engineering, fellow engineers, and learn more about the team. More info attached. Wednesday, May 19 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM PST | WRD New Grad + Leadership Q/A Panel RSVP HERE: <https://jst.me/8d6x> https://jst.me/8d6x Monday, May 24 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM PST | Professional Development Session: "Succeeding as a New Grad with 5G Channel Sensing" RSVP HERE: <https://jst.me/zpup> https://jst.me/zpup Julia Costello Strategic Partnership Coordinator Virginia Tech | College of Engineering | Department of Computer Science 2202 Kraft Drive | Blacksburg, VA 24060 Email: <mailto:juliapc7@cs.vt.edu> juliapc7(a)cs.vt.edu Stay up-to-date on CS|Source job and event opportunities <https://cs.vt.edu/cs-source.html> CS|Source Website | <https://www.cs-source.cs.vt.edu/> CS|Source Portal | <https://twitter.com/vt_CS_Source> CS|Source on Twitter

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VT Engineering 2020-2021 CASE Awards Announcement (CS NCR students)
by clu＠vt.edu 18 May '21

18 May '21

Congratulations to Roxanne for receiving the Jenny Frank Award! It’s a well-deserved recognition for her dedicated support and excellent contributions to the CoE at NCR. Cheers, C.T. From: Perkins, Linda <lperkins(a)vt.edu <mailto:lperkins@vt.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 9:03 AM To: coefaculty-g(a)vt.edu <mailto:coefaculty-g@vt.edu> ; coestaff-g(a)vt.edu <mailto:coestaff-g@vt.edu> Subject: FW: VT Engineering 2020-2021 CASE Awards Announcement Importance: High 2020-2021 VIRGINIA TECH ENGINEERING CASE AWARDS Virginia Tech Engineering is pleased to announce the College Association of Staff in Engineering (CASE) award winners for the 2020-2021 academic year. These awards recognize staff for their outstanding contributions throughout the year. Each and every day, every member of the staff across the college is vital to our success and all efforts of the staff are greatly appreciated. Watch the video from Dean Ross congratulating this year's winners. <https://case.eng.vt.edu/About/staff-awards/2021_CASE_Announcement.html> 2020-2021 CASE Award Winners Jenny Frank Award Roxanne Paul, College of Engineering, National Capital Region Administrative Award Mandy Collins, Mechanical Engineering Technical Award Bill Oetjens, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering ______________ Congratulations to all nominees and awardees!!! To learn more about CASE, visit https://case.eng.vt.edu/. <https://case.eng.vt.edu/> CASE Home Page | College Association for Staff in Engineering | Virginia Tech Previous Carousel Item Next Carousel Item. Community Services. Special Events case.eng.vt.edu Brandy McCoy Executive Assistant to the Department Head Virginia Tech | Department of Mechanical Engineering 451 Goodwin Hall - 0238 635 Prices Fork Road Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6661 | brandy07(a)vt.edu <mailto:brandy07@vt.edu>

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Fwd: Intel Labs India hiring Researchers
by Xun Jian 17 May '21

17 May '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Subramoney, Sreenivas <sreenivas.subramoney(a)intel.com> Date: Sun, May 16, 2021 at 4:25 AM Subject: Intel Labs India hiring Researchers To: xunj(a)vt.edu <xunj(a)vt.edu> Dear Professor Xun Jian My name is Sreenivas Subramoney and I am writing on behalf of the Processor Architecture Research (PAR) Lab at Intel Labs based out of Bangalore, India. PAR Lab is hiring full-time Research Scientists and we are also offering Research Internships and 3-year Research Fellowships in the following topics: 1) CPU Architecture and microarchitecture research 2) co-design across System Software (OS, runtimes, compilers) and CPU and Memory (hardware) architecture to enable efficient next-generation datacenter cloud services 3) cross-stack co-optimized Software+Hardware for next-generation Artificial Intelligence applications Could you please forward these requirements to your student lists? Interested students can send resume and covering letter to Sreenivas.Subramoney(a)intel.com. We much appreciate your help. Thanks and regards, Sreenivas Subramoney https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreenivas-subramoney-i-am-hiring-6564521/ -- *Xun (Steve) Jian, Assistant Professor* Virginia Tech | Computer Science 2202 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060

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