Week 4

Advising Updates

Pass/Fail Deadlines


The deadline for students (except Graduate) to request pass/fail or credit/audit options for a Spring term course is Friday, February 17, 2023.


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The CS Department is collecting information on ways we can improve your student experience. We are asking all CS students to complete the survey below by February 17, 20223.


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Upcoming Events

2023 Spring CDIS Job Fair!

February 20: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm in Union South

The 2023 Spring Computer, Data, and Information Sciences (CDIS) Job Fair will be held on Monday, February 20th, 2023 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. We had a great event in fall and are looking forward to a great event this semester. Please note that this is an IN-PERSON event.


A few reminders:


  • Bring up to date copies of your current resume.
  • Your Wiscard is required for entry.
  • Business casual-to-formal attire is encouraged. 

MadData Hackathon by dotData Club

February 25 @ 9:00 pm- Feb 26 @ 4:00 pm

ECE Alumni Panel: Microelectronics, Semiconductors & Chip Manufacturing

February 22 @ Noon!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

RED Talk: Matt Upstone & Steve Lueck from Associated Bank

February 23 @ 4:00 pm, CS Room 2310

SWE's "Evening With Industry" 2023

February 27 from 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Looking to Advertise Your Student Org Event?


Does your student organization have a kick-off coming up?

Maybe there is a cool event happening you want others to know about!

Feel free to send an announcement to advising@cs.wisc.edu!

We will add it in our next newsletter!

Thinking Ahead: Grad School, Fellowships, and

Certificate Offerings

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

Virtual Open House:

MS in Physics-Quantum Computing Program

School of Education: Teacher Pledge Overview Session

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!

Internship, Job & Co-Opportunities

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.


Career Fair Events

Career Tips

Career Tips from L&S Successworks!


Be sure to check out the Technology, Data, and Analytics Career Community for some AMAZING resources!





When Do I Start Looking For Jobs?


Short answer: always. 


Longer short answer: Internship Hiring Season is August-November. It’s good to push hard for a job during this time. 


Full-time Job Hiring Season is August-November, again in January/February, and generally all the time. 


If you miss the hiring pushes, don’t give up -- there are always jobs and internships available with companies who haven’t filled their jobs, or need more help. 

Computer Sciences Undergraduate Program
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