Information session

You asked, we delivered! The survey results are in, and we’re excited to host our first Q&A session for new grads, focusing on your top 3 concerns: funding, TA, and scholarships.

Join us in the CS grad lounge (DC 3336) on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 5 p.m. We’ll have guest speakers sharing their experiences with us in an informal, casual setting—so no need to stress! Feel free to ask anything; this is a safe space for open discussion.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Ralph is hosting a webinar that will share insights, expertise, and data on getting interviews and how to negotiate an industry offer in quantitative finance, AI/ML, data science, bio-technology, and hardware companies. For those of you who attended the webinar with Ralph in Winter 2020, this webinar will include new and improved topics and techniques. Topics will include:

The CS-GSA has an exciting event planned for next week!!! Exclusive for grad students, we will be hosting three speakers from Google to talk about life at Google, their hiring requirements, and what they look for in applicants! The speakers include a Ph.D. machine learning intern, along with two past intern full hires. There will be food and swag, and of course, some really great talks.

Refresher Talk -  /*-->*/ LaTeX made easier

By Siddhartha Sahu.

LaTeX is great in creating beautifully typeset documents. However, the workflow around LaTeX is sometimes clunky and repetitive. In this talk, I will share tips and tricks I've learned that make working with LaTeX documents, tables, and references much less painful.

Refresher Talk -  /*-->*/ Intro to Generative Text Models

By Gaurav Sahu. 

Deep learning has revolutionized nearly every field of NLP. This workshop would be a gentle introduction to such methods as well as I'll discuss how to implement them in real-time using PyTorch.

Refresher Talk - Dissecting Git

By Gaurav Sahu.

Most, if not all programmers, use Git on a daily basis. However, many of them have a superficial understanding of how it works. In this workshop, I'll give a brief introduction to Git, and how it works under the hood. Hopefully, it would bolster any future project collaborations students may have.

Interested in learning what is it like to be a software engineer at Google? Join us as Googlers share day-in-the-life stories about their work and provide an inside look at what makes engineering at Google unique. Bring your questions and hear stories from Googlers! RSVP here to let us know you're coming.