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Full interview dates on facsearch page
by Ali R. Butt 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Folks: A lot of dates have now been confirmed and shown up at: https://hosting.cs.vt.edu/facsearch/ Thank you, -ali

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Re: [CSSEARCH2021] faculty candidates
by Ali R. Butt 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

[Fixing the committee email] -ali > On Jan 20, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Hartman, Tabitha <hartt(a)vt.edu> wrote: > > Hi Ali, sorry about the delay, but yes, up through the 25th on our private sheet is confirmed, Huda will be moving and I should be hearing today from Jose and Ivan on their confirmation. > > Just so you know that I am really not trying to kill everyone with these upcoming interviews, these are the dates that they actually requested from me! They are eager and ready to roll! :) > > I am building Liting's and Toby's seminar page now, and then tomorrow hopefully I will have the next rounds. > > Tabitha > > Tabitha Hartman > Office Manager & Executive Assistant to the Dept. Head > Computer Science (0902) > Knowledge Works II, STE 1106 > 2202 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060 > Phone: 540.231.8452 > Fax: 540.231.4240 > Email: hartt(a)vt.edu > Zoom Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/my/hartt > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ali R. Butt [mailto:butta@cs.vt.edu] > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 9:25 PM > To: Hartman, Tabitha <hartt(a)vt.edu> > Cc: cssearch2021(a)cs.vt.edu > Subject: faculty candidates > > Hi Tabitha, > > Can we please have the candidate dates posted to the facsearch website, which only has Chris on 20th listed? In a private document, I see the following dates, which if correct is concerning as I do not know if the following hosts even know about this. > > Toby Li 25-Jan Doug > Huda Khayrallah 26-Jan Chris > Jose Lugo-Martinez 27-Jan Murali > Ivan De Oliveira Nunes 29-Jan Matt > > Thanks, > -ali > > > >> On Jan 18, 2021, at 10:06 AM, T. M. Murali <murali(a)cs.vt.edu> wrote: >> >> Hi Ali, >> Did you get a chance to ping Tabitha on scheduling the interview for Jose Lugo-Martinez? It will be good to get the date fixed otherwise the candidate may get an idea that we are not interested. >> Murali >

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Candidate scheduling
by Ali R. Butt 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Folks: I am as frustrated as you are re. the candidate scheduling process not going as smoothly as we had planned. I have raised the issue with Cal, who is working on it. FWIW, I see the following dates (added by Tabitha), so providing them here as a heads up for all of us. I assume them to be correct, but am working to get a confirmation. I hope it will be reflected in hosting.cs.vt.edu/facsearch ASAP as well. I’ll be back with an update by end of today. Visit Date Host Name 21-Jan Kirk Chris Brown 22-Jan DSN Liting Hu 25-Jan Doug Toby Li 26-Jan Chris Huda Khayrallah 27-Jan Murali Jose Lugo-Martinez 29-Jan Matt Ivan De Oliveira Nunes 2-Feb DSN Ahmed Saeed 3-Feb Chris Jonathan Kummerfeld 4-Feb Doug Yalong Yang 8-Feb Chris Dawei Zhou 10-Feb Chris Xueru Zhang 12-Feb Doug Mayara Costa Figueiredo 15-Feb Chris Huajie Shao 16-Feb Doug Hariharan Subramonyam 18-Feb Chris Jyun-Yu Jiang 19-Feb Kirk Peng Gao TBD Matt Dan Williams Thanks, -ali

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Fwd: faculty candidates
by Ali R. Butt 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

[resending to the correct address now] > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Ali R. Butt" <butta(a)cs.vt.edu> > Subject: faculty candidates > Date: January 18, 2021 at 9:24:54 PM EST > To: Tabitha Hartman <hartt(a)vt.edu> > Cc: cssearch2021(a)cs.vt.edu > > Hi Tabitha, > > Can we please have the candidate dates posted to the facsearch website, which only has Chris on 20th listed? In a private document, I see the following dates, which if correct is concerning as I do not know if the following hosts even know about this. > > Toby Li 25-Jan Doug > Huda Khayrallah 26-Jan Chris > Jose Lugo-Martinez 27-Jan Murali > Ivan De Oliveira Nunes 29-Jan Matt > > Thanks, > -ali >

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Weekly search status and update
by Ali R. Butt 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Good morning: Thank you all for continuing to evaluate the incoming applications. There are 97 applications submitted as of 11/29. I have reviewed them all and have added about half of them to the evaluation googlesheet. There are ~38 applications that need your attention. I suggest catching up on those by the end of the week if not earlier. The number is likely to pick up faster in the coming weeks. Since, there are a lot more Data/AI/ML/NLP applications than others, I suggest Chris/Anuj/Hoda distribute them among themselves. Thank you, -ali Application evaluation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A1mPyUZJcK7FMeNjzyt5UgdU2HZj4oPAveC… Process: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rYguTyS1xVFYZwjrfWOksCXxLtt4cNwE5N5pZiV…

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Search host tasks
by Ali R. Butt 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Hi Folks, Cal ok-ed 8 more full interviews, which I have marked in the spreadsheet. I have assigned host duties to some of you, and may also include people outside the committee to be hosts. Here is a set of notes for host tasks. Please feel free to add to the notes as you do your host duties. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBgl0fFBX40ejkNFxtFhsOs3sQDs4Kgjr-Li_45… Thanks, -ali Application evaluation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A1mPyUZJcK7FMeNjzyt5UgdU2HZj4oPAveC… Process: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rYguTyS1xVFYZwjrfWOksCXxLtt4cNwE5N5pZiV… Host tasks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBgl0fFBX40ejkNFxtFhsOs3sQDs4Kgjr-Li_45…

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Weekly search status and update on number of positions
by Ali R. Butt 18 Dec '20

18 Dec '20

Hi folks: Some good news from the university. We now have a green light for 7 tenure tracked positions. (There are also 2 collegiate positions). Re. application processing, there are ~18 more that have I have put in the spreadsheet. If there are promising folks in there, we can try to schedule them quickly, otherwise I am thinking the first week of Jan would be a good time to schedule these and more that come in through the end of the year. Thank you, -ali Application evaluation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A1mPyUZJcK7FMeNjzyt5UgdU2HZj4oPAveC… Process: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rYguTyS1xVFYZwjrfWOksCXxLtt4cNwE5N5pZiV…

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Info about women candidates for stage 1 zooms
by Ali R Butt 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi folks: Can you share the name of women candidates that we are engaging over stage 1 zoom interviews? Liqing & Hoda: May I lean on you to try to attend as many of these stage 1s as possible, irrespective of the area? It’s a busy end of semester week, so any participation is appreciated. Also, Daphne has graciously agreed to engage with our women candidates in a more informal/independent way, so I’ll organize and share the contact info with her too. Regards, -ali (mobile)

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faculty search process question
by Chris North 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Ali, Cal, In zoom interviews, candidates are likely to ask what will be the process moving forward. Can you shed some light? esp re the calendar, and what an “on-site” interview might look like. -chris

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sharing of search materials
by Ali R. Butt 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

Hi all: Currently, we have been limiting sharing of materials with outside committee to only the CV. I am thinking, perhaps sharing teaching and research statements would also be helpful. For the cover letter, it depends, if its generic it does not add much value. If it reveals some private information, e.g., two body etc. issue, we should not share it. And for the remaining, we can do as needed. What are your thought? Based on that we can update our approach. Thanks, -ali

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