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Library GRA Position
by McPherson, David 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Dear Grad Students, Please see the attached GRA position. If you have questions about the position, please direct them to ylchen(a)vt.edu. Position Description: The CDRS at the University Libraries is looking for one summer GRA to enhance machine learning models for automatic image segmentation of Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) biomedical images, facilitating medical researchers in comparing control samples and making informed decisions. Responsibilities include refining data curation processes to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of data analysis in translational and clinical research settings. The role involves active participation in interdisciplinary research teams, contributing to the development and evaluation of prototype models, and assisting in documenting and disseminating research outcomes. Attached are the detailed job description and application information. -- David McPherson dmcphers(a)vt.edu 540-231-3153 1220A Torgersen Hall

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CS|Source: Announcements and Opportunities | Wednesday, April 17, 2024
by Shirkey, Claire 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

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Fw: ORNL Trustworthy AI for Science Essay Contest
by Ribbens, Calvin 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Forwarding as requested. ________________________________ From: Parete-Koon, Suzanne <paretekoonst(a)ornl.gov> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 3:49 PM To: Ribbens, Calvin <ribbens(a)vt.edu> Subject: ORNL Trustworthy AI for Science Essay Contest Dear Professor Cal Ribbens, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to inform you of an exciting opportunity to engage with cutting-edge topics in science and technology that I hope you will share with professors and students at Virginia Tech. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hosting an essay competition that delves into the ethical landscape of utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific endeavors. This essay competition provides an opportunity to comment on the ethical landscape of using AI in science, urging participants to contemplate the guidance necessary to construct trustworthy, ethical, and useful AI systems for scientific purposes. This year's competition focuses on biomedical science, geographical information science, and climate science. In the first stage, competitors have until July 8 to outline their approach for one of the challenges, which will serve as the basis for selecting finalists who will advance to the next stage. In the final stage, the selected finalists will have until August 15 to fully complete their 2,000-word essay. Qualifying finalists will be invited to submit a final draft of their work to be published in our DOI collection for the conference. The top-scoring finalists for each challenge will be invited to present their work in a 15-minute TED-style talk the Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference (SMC) 2024 on September 17, 2024, at the Marriott in Downtown Knoxville, TN. They are welcome to stay for the whole conference, which runs through September 19. The conference provides attendees with the opportunity to learn about advanced technologies and integrated research infrastructures for experiments, machine learning/AI, and modeling and simulation occurring at the national laboratories, as well as the chance to network with researchers and potential employers. We will waive the conference fee for attending finalists and provide all conference meals for them. However, we regret that we cannot provide travel or lodging funding assistance. If a finalist cannot travel, we will work with them to find a means to present their work remotely or via a local mentor. Interdisciplinary teams with diverse technical and humanistic viewpoints are strongly encouraged. All are welcome to take the challenge. We also encourage students to make this a part of a project that they are already working on for class or thesis. If the AI for Science subject matter that they want to address falls outside our three focused areas listed below, we encourage them to write us so that we can arrange for the proper experts to review their entry. Challenge 1: Biomedical Science<https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/2024-essay-challenge-1/> Challenge 2: Geographical Information Science<https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/elementor-4274/> Challenge 3: Climate Science<https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/2024-essay-challenge-3/> If you have questions, please email us at mailto:smc-datachallenge@ornl.gov. For registration and more information, see: https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov.<https://smc-datachallenge.ornl.gov/> Best Regards, Dr. Suzanne Parete-Koon and Dr. Michael Sandoval SMCDC24 Co-Chairs smc-datachallenge(a)ornl.gov

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Participants needed for a study on programmer communication
by McGranahan, Mary Catherine 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

You are invited to participate in a research study regarding the communication style of programmers. The IRB protocol number for this project is: #24-230. Participants will be asked to answer a seven question audio survey that should take about 15-20mins to complete. Participants need to be English speakers, at least 18 years old, and be one of the following: • Computer science senior student • Computer science graduate student • Industry software engineer/developer The entire study is conducted asynchronously via an online survey tool. If you are interested in participating, please use the following link to access and complete the survey: https://app.voiceform.com/to/fjiObOKMrv5KSdcJ To view more information about the study, see the attached sheet. Contact: If you have any questions please contact one of the investigators at jelson9854(a)vt.edu, emilya99@vt..edu, or mkmcgranahan(a)vt.edu.

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Discussion Panel on LLMs in Systems and Software
by Brown, Chris 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello, The Stack@CS Systems Reading Group invites you to join a panel discussion on "How LLMs will impact systems and software research". The panel will take place on Thursday, April 18th at 3-4pm in Gilbert 4001. We are excited to be joined by an expert panel of CS faculty members and external panelists, including: Dr. Daphne Yao (Virginia Tech) Dr. Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech) Dr. Shrikanth Chandrasekaran (Oracle) Charles Packer (UC Berkley) Sarah Wooders (UC Berkley) There will be limited time to ask questions during the panel, so please pre-submit questions that you would like the panel to discuss here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLWk1iPIIFd8q943_MMDWWtKDPpzXMXnR…>. Thanks to the sponsorship of our department and Stack@CS, beverages and snacks will be offered to the meeting attendants. Thank you for your time and we hope you are able to join us! Thanks, Chris

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Participants needed for User Study
by Bukhari, Syed Ibrahim Mustafa Shah 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hello, We are conducting a user study under the supervision of Dr. Brendan David-John (Virginia Tech) for his Advanced Topics in HCI (CS6724) class. The IRB protocol number for this project is # 24-333. We are inviting you to participate in the user study that is aimed to study the usability and effectiveness of novel, more generalizable specifically for situationally impaired bystanders, privacy indicators for MR devices. There will be a short semi-structured interview towards the end of the user study to understand some of the responses provided by the participants.. The user study will take around 30 minutes to 1 hour. If you would like to participate, please fill this Google Form<https://forms.gle/fnM8ZDc6NsZHqyJ29> to indicate your interest! Best regards, Syed Ibrahim Mustafa Shah Bukhari (simsb(a)vt.edu<mailto:simsb@vt.edu>)

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Digitized Health: Please come in-person to 3100 Torg. on 4/19 at 2:30pm for Distinguished Lecturer Ophir Frieder
by Fox, Edward 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hi! Please come in-person to 3100 Torgersen Hall at 2:30pm on 4/19 for the Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Ophir Frieder, who is speaking on Digitized Health. See website.cs.vt.edu/research/Seminars/Ophir_Frieder.html He is: Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IEEE, and NAI Inaugural Member of the ACM SIGIR Academy Faculty of Computer Science, Georgetown University Faculty of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center Please spread the word! -- Edward A. Fox, Ph.D., Professor Virginia Tech | Computer Science (0106) 1160 Torgersen Hall (CS dept. office) Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-5113 | fox(a)vt.edu

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Open Position for CS PhD Students: GRA in AI for Youth Online Safety
by Cho, Jin-Hee 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Dear CS PhD Students, A GRA position is available for CS PhD students who are interested in dedicating their dissertation research to AI for youth online safety. Specifically, this role involves developing a chatbot framework aimed at enhancing awareness of cybergrooming among youth. This opportunity is ideal for students commencing their PhD in Fall 2024 or those who began their studies in Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 and have not yet selected a dissertation advisor and topic. This position will be supported by a recent NSF award: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330940&HistoricalAwards=f…. Preferred Qualifications: - Natural Language Processing - Deep Reinforcement Learning - Social Cybersecurity - Proficiency in Machine/Deep Learning techniques If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please submit your most recent CV and unofficial transcripts from both your undergraduate and graduate studies to jicho(a)vt.edu. Use the subject line "GRA for the NSF Cybergrooming Project." Suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. Thank you! Best regards, Jin-Hee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jin-Hee Cho, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member Associate Professor | Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow | College of Engineering Affiliate Faculty | National Security Institute Virginia Tech 7054 Haycock Road Falls Church, VA 22043-2368 Email: jicho(a)vt.edu<mailto:jicho@vt.edu> Phone: (703) 538-8302 Fax: (703) 538-8348 Homepage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~jicho/ Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wToVkEUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wToVkEUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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RSVP for the 4/26 CSGC End of Semester Picnic
by Woo, Wesley 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

TL;DR - fill out this form<https://forms.gle/KQaaP2jH9BeBfP9n7> to help us plan an end-of-semester dinner-picnic (5 PM on 4/26 at Blacksburg Municipal Park Shelter 9). --- Hi folks! In 2 weeks, the CS Grad Council will be hosting a picnic to celebrate the end of another school year. The event will be at Shelter 9 of Blacksburg Municipal Park (Google Maps pin<https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B014'28.2%22N+80%C2%B024'49.9%22W/(a)37.241155,-80.413856,17z/data=!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d37.241155!4d-80.413856>) from 5 PM to sundown on Friday, 4/26. We're planning on ordering some catered food for dinner – in the RSVP form below, please vote for your preferred food(s) or submit a suggestion for the type of food you would like to consume on this date + at this location. https://forms.gle/KQaaP2jH9BeBfP9n7 Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Wesley

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Accenture Technology Day -- Today (April 11)!
by Watson, Joan 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Accenture Technology Day! Thursday, April 11, 2024 Accenture Federal Services would like to invite you to its first ever Accenture Technology Day at Virginia Tech. Please join representatives from Accenture on Thursday April 11th in Goodwin Lobby from 10 am – 4 pm. They will be showcasing their interactive, cutting-edge technology and how they are leveraging it to help their clients! Please stop by at any time, walk around the booths, interact with or view the short demos, and ask questions. Accenture will be providing free food, both in the morning and afternoon and will be raffling off 3 technology prizes- Metaquest headset, portable speaker, and headphones- throughout the day! Please see the attached flyer for more information. *************** Joan Monahan Watson, Ph.D. Director of Administrative Operations Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech 3160D Torgersen Hall 620 Drillfield Drive Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: 540.231.8874 Email: jmwatson(a)vt.edu<mailto:jmwatson@vt.edu>

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