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Successworks Drop-In Advising on Wednesdays

No Appointment Needed!

Do you have career questions? Visit the CS Advising Office (4th Floor, Tower 2) OR DS Advising Office (1217C, Med Science Center) every Wednesday from 1-4pm during the spring semester with your resume and career questions.

Availability is first come first serve, and meetings will be limited to 15 minutes if there is a line.

*Note: Drop-In Advising will be unavailable at CS Office on Feb 8^th – DS Office will be open!

Information Sessions for Newly Declared CS Students!

Are you a recently declared Computer Sciences Major?

CS Advising is hosting two information sessions for newly declared CS students!

We Will:

• Review Major Requirements & Advising Resources
• Offer Enrollment Recommendations & Tips
• Have a Short Meet & Greet with Your Advisors

WHEN: Tuesday 2/7/23 & Thursday 2/9/23 from 2:30-3:30 pm

WHERE: Room 1240 in the CS Building.

Please: RSVP HERE

Alumni Career Panel:

User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX)

WHEN: February 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

WHERE: Register on Zoom: HERE

Want to learn more about careers in user interface and user experience? Stop by this informal virtual panel session to get tips and advice from UW alumni professionals who work in this field. Feel free to drop in whenever you like to listen, but you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions and make professional connections.

Badger Product Club Fireside Chat #1

Tuesday, February 7th @ 7pm!

Hello product enthusiasts! We’re super excited to kick off our fireside chat series for the spring semester, and excited to host Jessi Zachman as our distinguished speaker! 

Jessi launched her career through the coveted Associate Product Marketing Manager role at Google, got swiftly promoted into a Product Marketing Manager position, and then brought her skills to the Product Manager role when she joined Gopuff two and a half years after joining Google! Here’s a link to her Linkedin profile if you’d like to learn more.

If you’re interested in learning more about breaking into either the Product Marketing or the Product Manager roles, this is the perfect fireside chat for you! 

Here are some key details of the event:

Day & Date: Tuesday, 7th February 2023

Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm CT

Venue: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95919374022?pwd=REEwQlJEcDhLejdRZC80L1hqVkR1UT09

Please fill out this RSVP Form if you're planning to make it.

We look forward to seeing you there!

PS: Here’s the link to join our slack community :) 

WQCC Kickoff Event!

SWE's "Evening With Industry" 2023

Plus One Pathway (POP) Information Session

Wednesday, 2/8/23 at 4:00 pm

Computer Science Building: Room 1221.

Free AI Safety Fundamentals Program! 

Transformative AI might pose considerable existential risk within the coming decades or later this century. Trained to maximize an objective, AI systems often find creative and undesirable ways to do so. YouTube's recommendation algorithm, trained to suggest content to maximize user engagement, ended up recommending increasingly extreme content and proliferating misinformation. Language models such as Chat-GPT, trained to predict the next word in a piece of text, can be prompted to produce offensive content and leak personal information from the training data. As AI capabilities advance, we can expect the stakes of these risks from misaligned systems to dramatically increase.

To make progress on these critical problems, it’s extremely valuable to have additional talented people working on it. Recognizing this need, UW-Madison AI Safety is hosting a free Cambridge AGI Safety Fundamentals Course to equip students with the knowledge to begin tackling this problem. By the end of the course, participants will have a high-level understanding of the AI alignment problem, some of the key research directions which aim to solve it, and first-hand experience working on an AI Safety project. Upon completing the program, you'll be connected to a professional network in AIS, have the opportunity to attend AIS related conferences, and gain connections to grants and internships to pursue further research.

Apply here by February 14th

Undergraduate Research Fellowship Opportunities

Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships and Holstrom Environmental Research Fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff during summer 2023 or the 2023-24 academic year. The student researcher receives $3,000, and the faculty/staff research advisor receives $1,000 to help offset research costs. Students must have at least junior standing at the time of application. The Holstrom Fellowships require an environmental focus. Apply by February 13, 2023.

Sophomore Research Fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff during summer 2023 or the 2023-24 academic year. The student researcher receives $2,500, and the faculty/staff research advisor receives $500 to help offset research costs. At the time of application, the student must be a second-year undergraduate, a first-year undergraduate who will have more than 24 credits after May 2023, or a transfer student in their first year of attendance at UW–Madison. Apply by February 28, 2023.

Public Humanities Exchange for Undergraduates (HEX-U) is a high-impact program for undergraduate students that funds humanities-based projects that support a need in the Madison community beyond the university. The program provides training in community partnership, support for project development and implementation, and funding. Participating students receive a $600 stipend award and up to $2,000 in project funding. Students are encouraged to propose new, innovative ideas for engagement with the local community through a project. Apply for the spring 2023 cohort by Monday, February 6 (early-bird deadline) and Monday, March 27, 2023 (final deadline).

Wisconsin Idea Fellowships are awarded annually to undergraduate student projects that address a challenge identified along with a local or global community partner. Fellowships are awarded to semester-long or year-long projects designed by an undergraduate student (or group of students) in collaboration with a community advisor at a community organization and a UW–Madison faculty or academic staff member. Projects can receive up to $7,000 in total funding, and students receive 3 academic credits. Apply for 2023-24 fellowships by February 13, 2023. There is a priority deadline of January 30, 2023 for applicants seeking proposal feedback from the Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Advisor.

**Writing Proposal Workshops for the Hilldale and Holstrom Research Fellowships are offered in-person through the Writing Center on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. This workshop is also appropriate if you are applying to a Sophomore Research Fellowship.



Register Here!

Thinking Ahead: MS Statistics, Statistics and Data Science (MSDS) Information Sessions

Thinking Ahead: MS Data Science (MDS) Information Sessions

Deloitte Leadership, Allyship, & Mentorship Program Seeking 2nd Year Students!

Summer Internship Offerings from IIP!

The UW-Madison International Internship Program (IIP) offers internships abroad with organizations all over the world. Applications are open for Summer 2023 internships! 

In-person summer internships for Computer Science students (deadline February 19th):  

• The Planet App Digital Product Management Intern SPAIN (Intermediate Spanish required, $1000 LACIS Grant + €500/month stipend)
• University of Costa Rica Computational Medical Physics Lab Research Intern COSTA RICA

You can also find & propose your own internship for credit or apply for funding!

Have more questions or want more information? Get in touch with us at internships@international.wisc.edu or make an appointment

Python Coding Position w/ Potential Authorship

Michelle Marji, PhD student in the Psychology department working with Dr. Paula Niedenthal is looking to hire a coder (in Python) for approximately 30 hours at $15/hr (possibly more) with potential for authorship on a publication. 

Our team is working on a project that involves tracking the movement of 268 people via drone footage on a field. We have collected all drone footage. We would like to track every individual and we have the capability to identify who is who via documents that show each person's position.

We are using Labelbox (a machine learning labeling software), to estimate the positions of people via a model that we can build with training data. 

This paper  (with the supplemental text and data/code) outlines methods to do this with animals in the wild. We are hoping to do something very similar with our data (but slightly simpler), that is, creating training, validation, and test sets and adapting code to track the individuals

We are also open to other methods in movement tracking.

Interested? Contact Michelle.Marji@wisc.edu for more information.

The Badger Herald is Hiring!

MSC Remote Software Engineer Co-op

• Engineering and STEM Fair - Feb 2-6th (in-person)
• Engineering Fair often includes computer engineering, software and machine learning roles
• Risk & Insurance Fair - Feb 9 (virtual)
• Lots of advanced data science and analytics roles in insurance
• All-Majors Career Fair - Feb 15, 16 (in-person) 
• Your widest view of employers looking for UW-Madison students
• CDIS Job Fair - Feb 20 (in-person)
• Organized with the CS, DS and IS Departments
• Tech, Data & Analytics Fair - Feb 23 (virtual)
• Hosted by SuccessWorks