<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Five-College Data Science faculty friends,<div><br></div><div>The UMass Amherst Center for Data Science will hold its second annual Career Mixer on the evening of Thursday October 13. I hope many of you will consider attending, and will also consider recommending selected MS/PhD and outstanding BS students to register and participate.</div><div><br></div><div>Faculty should register here: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/xmS1UevWTzet7X5t2" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>xmS1UevWTzet7X5t2</a></div><div>Students should register here: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/BjMsDFCd7OcdVAqY2" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>BjMsDFCd7OcdVAqY2</a></div><div><br></div><div>For more details, visit this page: <a href="https://ds.cs.umass.edu/CareerMixer2016" target="_blank">https://ds.cs.umass.edu/<wbr>CareerMixer2016</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Student registration closes on <b>MONDAY October 3rd</b>, and students will be required to prepare and submit posters (following guidance that we will provide) by <b>FRIDAY October 7th</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>Last year we had 10 companies, over 70 students presenting research posters, a standing dinner, lots of great technical conversation, and many examples of successful company-student matches for internships and employment. It is a great chance for faculty to learn about the research of many of our grad students. In addition, attending can be a source of funding: some companies decided to fund PhD student academic-year RAships after seeing their posters and talking with faculty at the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Confirmed attendees this year include:</div><div><ul><li>Amazon (Cambridge MA, creators of Amazon Echo)</li><li>BAE (Burlington MA)</li><li>Google (Cambridge MA, in particular computer vision and ML groups)</li><li>IBM (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, cognitive computing, NLP and reasoning)</li><li>Lexalytics (NLP startup with offices in Amherst)</li><li>MIT Lincoln Labs (Lexington MA)</li><li>MassMutual (Triangle Street, Amherst, Data Labs)</li><li>McKesson Health (Hadley, MA)</li><li><a href="http://meta.com" target="_blank">Meta.com</a> (scientific research literature startup)</li><li>Microsoft (Cambridge MA research lab)</li><li>MITRE (Bedford MA)</li><li>Oracle Labs (Burlington MA)</li><li>Pratt & Whitney (logistics for manufacturing and maintenance)</li><li>Twitter Cortex (Cambridge MA, deep learning group)</li><li>UMass faculty and students from statistics, biostatistics, engineering, social sciences and elsewhere</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Additional possible attendees this year also include:</div><div><ul><li>MathWorks (creators of MatLab, with interest in computer vision, deep learning)</li><li>Thomson Reuters</li><li>State Street</li><li>Fidelity</li><li>Pearson</li><li>Nature Conservancy</li><li>iRobot</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Best regards,</div></div><div>/Brant</div><br><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div><b>Brant A. Cheikes</b></div><div>Executive Director</div><div>Center for Data Science</div><div>University of Massachusetts Amherst</div><div>140 Governors Drive</div><div>Computer Science Building, Room 228</div><div><a href="mailto:bcheikes@umass.edu" target="_blank">bcheikes@umass.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://ds.cs.umass.edu" target="_blank">ds.cs.umass.edu</a></div><div>(O) <a href="tel:413-577-0092" value="+14135770092" target="_blank">413-577-0092</a></div><div>(C) <a href="tel:617-694-8180" value="+16176948180" target="_blank">617-694-8180</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br></div><br><br>
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