2023 Spring CDIS Job Fair TODAY!

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. 

Connect with ColorStack!

ECE Alumni Panel: Microelectronics, Semiconductors & Chip Manufacturing

February 22 @ Noon!

ISG Resume & Online Portfolio Workshop

February 22: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, @SAC 4001

RED Talk: Matt Upstone & Steve Lueck from Associated Bank

February 23 @ 4:00 pm, CS Room 2310

ColorStack Presents Black History Month Movie Night

February 24 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

MadData Hackathon by dotData Club

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

SWE's "Evening With Industry" 2023

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

ColorStack Study Jam

March 1 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm in CS 2310

Goldman Sachs Firmwide Information Session

March 2: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm in Grainger Hall, Rm 2080

WHEN: Thursday, March 2: 6:30 – 7:30pm

WHERE: Grainger Hall, Room 2080

Event link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1210878

Join University of Wisconsin alumni from multiple divisions at Goldman Sachs to learn more about roles in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Investing, Research, Markets and more. We’ll share more information about life at Goldman Sachs and our recruiting process taking place in Spring 2023. This event is open to all majors.

Transcend Madison Innovation Competion

Deadline: March 10, 2023

Calling all innovators, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs at UW. Sign up now for the 8th annual Transcend Madison Innovation Competition to compete for $50,000 in prizes. This year's competition will take place on April 13th and 14th.

WHAT?: The Transcend Madison Innovation competition is a pitch competition held every spring here at UW-Madison. Styled similarly to Shark Tank, competitors pitch their idea to a panel of judges. At the end of the competition, these judges will award the most deserving competitors with prizes from our $50,000 prize pool.

HOW?: Using this link, any student at UW may sign up before the signup deadline on March 10th. After March 10th, competitors must complete our competition documents and attend the two mandatory development events before April 2nd. All relevant dates can be found on our website.

WHO?: You! Currently enrolled students at UW with any promising product idea. In years past, we have seen everything from apps to boardgames to biomedical devices to fully fleshed-out business plans. As the subject line reads: All it takes is an idea.

WHEN/WHERE?: This year's competition is presented by D2P and will take place in the Discovery Building on April 13th and 14th. The competition will take the majority of both days, and the award ceremony will take place at the end of the second day.

Sign-ups are open now!! https://www.transcenduw.com/2023-competition-information

Please direct any further questions to transcenduw@gmail.com

Undergraduate Research Fellowship Opportunities

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).

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.

• 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