Positions
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Grad Students Helping the Department
CSEGSA Coordinators
The two individuals holding CSEGSA Coordinator positions serve as liaisons between the faculty/staff and other graduate students, and oversee the operations of the CSEGSA. When graduate student input or
assistance is needed on a matter, the Coordinators are often asked by the
faculty or staff of the CSE department to find student volunteers. In addition, students may bring their concerns to the Coordinators, so that they can be addressed by appropriate faculty and staff members together with the
CSEGSA. Additional tasks include holding organizational meetings to recruit
volunteers, maintaining the CSEGSA web page, and handling just about anything else that comes up. Perks of this job include getting to know many people in the department, and learning how things really work around here. There are two coordinators, traditionally a senior coordinator and a junior coordinator. The current coordinators can be reached at: coordinators at cs ucsd edu .
2008-09 : Scott Yilek [syilek], Sat Garcia [sat]
2007-08 : Sat Garcia [sat], Scott Yilek [syilek], (Alvin AuYoung [alvina], Barath Raghavan [barath] (senior))
2006-07 : Barath Raghavan [barath], Alvin AuYoung [alvina]
2005-06 : Alvin AuYoung [alvina], Barath Raghavan [barath]
2004-05 : Barath Raghavan [barath], Alvin AuYoung [alvina]
2003-04 : Alvin AuYoung [alvina], Barath Raghavan [barath]
2002-03 : Doug Brown, Joe Drish
2001-02 : Joe Drish, Renata Teixeira
2000-01 : Renata Teixeira, Sara Miner
GradCom Representative
The GradCom representative acts as a liaison between faculty and the
students and holds the fairly important responsibility of keeping an eye
on the faculty and making sure that they act in the best interest of the
students. The faculty are typically very good about keeping the interests of students in mind so the two major job responsibilities are to go to faculty meetings and Graduate Committee meetings as the student observer / representative. It is a great way to meet the faculty and be involved in the real workings of the department (oh if you only knew), but requires someone that can deal with faculty as well as someone that will honor the privacy of their peers that happen to be discussed in GradCom.
2008-09 : Garo Bournoutian [garo]
2007-08 : Garo Bournoutian [garo]
2006-07 : Ayse Kivilcim Coskun [acoskun]
2005-06 : Justin Burke [burke], Michael McCracken [mike]
2004-05 : Justin Burke [burke]
2003-04 : Jeff Brown [jbrown]
2002-03 : Jeff Brown
2001-02 : Jeff Brown, Tim Sherwood
2000-01 : Tim Sherwood
Faculty Recruitment Representative
The Faculty Recruitment Representative organizes meetings between graduate students and prospective faculty. The job does not require too much time. It typically goes something like this:
- A week or so before a candidate is coming to visit, you will be asked to
sign up for a time slot for a meeting. Meetings are either 30 or 45 minutes. - You go listen to the candidates talk.
- Shortly before the meeting, you send out mail to csgrads letting them know that there is a meeting and that they should come.
- During the meeting, you help answer the candidates questions, and guide
the discussion. - After the meeting, you gather feedback from the students. Would you want the candidate as an advisor? Did he explain things well? Would he be a
good match for our department? - You forward the feedback to the Faculty Recruitment Chair, (after anonymizing it), and he distributes this information to the whole faculty. They
use this data when making hiring decisions.
There are several benefits to this job:
- You help future grad students by helping to screen future faculty. If a
candidate would make a poor advisor, you can share this with the recruitment
Committee, and save future grad students from suffering. - You learn about a lot about interviewing. By observing the strengths and
weaknesses of the candidates, you will be able to present yourself better
when you have to look for a job.
2008-09 : Tom Ristenpart [tristenp], 1 UNFILLED
2007-08 : Barath Raghavan [barath], Justin Ma [jtma]
2006-07 : Barath Raghavan [barath], Justin Ma [jtma], Hakon Verespej [hverespe]
2005-06 : Jenny Wang [guilian], Christopher Fleizach [cfleizac], Daniel Hsu [djhsu], Chip Killian [ckillian]
2004-05 : Chris Tuttle [ctuttle]
2003-04 : Barath Raghavan [barath]
2002-03 : Xianan Zhang
2001-02 : Dmitrii Zagorodnov
2000-01 : Eric Tune
Graduate Admissions Representative
This position is currently being redefined
Currently, when the department is reviewing graduate program admission applications, they seek only minimal input from graduate students. Previously grad students had more input into the process but we slowly lost this position. However, there is support among some faculty for once again involving grad students in the grad admissions process. In 2007-08, two international students were asked for their input. We would like to continue the trend of having more responsibilities in this important process--other top CS departments have significant input from their grad students.
The main role for the position this year is to keep in contact with the chair of the Grad Admissions Committee and work towards increasing our role in student admissions. It is an excellent opportunity to increase the status of grad students in the department.
2008-09 : Aram Shahinfard [ashahinf]
2007-08 : Chris Kanich
2006-07 : Position discontinued
2005-06 : Position discontinued
2004-05 : Position discontinued
2003-04 : Satish Narayanasamy [skumar]
2002-03 : Rahul Lahoti, Wenjing Rao
2001-02 : Sashka Davis
2000-01 : Florin Baboescu
Job Seminar Coordinator
The goal of the job seminar coordinator organizes seminars, presentations, panels, and informal get togethers with faculty and grad students, covering a broad range of topics related to job search and interviewing. Particular events include 'Getting a job', 'How to have a good career', and a seminar for graduating students (brief talks on all research areas in CSE).
2008-09 : 1 UNFILLED
2007-08 : Tom Ristenpart [tristenp]
2006-07 : Tom Ristenpart [tristenp]
2004-05 : Sagnik Nandy [snandy]
2003-04 : Dmitrii Zagorodnov [dzagorod]
2002-03 : Michelle Strout
Prospective Student Visit Day Coordinator
The department holds an annual visit day for prospective students in early March. In recent years, the department has significantly increased the effort put into the visit day. As the coordinator, you will have two main roles. First, you will be working with faculty and staff in finalizing the visit day schedule. Second, you will be in charge of getting other grad students to volunteer for the event. On the order of 10-15 grad students are traditionally involved in the planning. It will be your responsibility to coordinate the activities of these volunteers.
2008-09 : Ross Tate [rtate]
2007-08 : Ross Tate [rtate]
2006-07 : Tingfan Wu [t3wu], Sat Garcia [sat]
2005-06 : Sat Garcia [sat]
2004-05 : YuChung Cheng [ycheng]
2003-04 : YuChung Cheng [ycheng]
2002-03 : Poorna Udupi, Amit Behere
2001-02 : Bianca Zadrozny
2000-01 : Mike Copenhafer
Social Committee Representatives
The students that serve on the social committee are in charge of the various social events that occur throughout the year. The events that need to be managed are:
- CSE Fall Carnival
- CSE Winter Party
- CSE End-of-Year BBQ
The CSE Fall carnival is a new event (2008-09) that will take place at the beginning of the school year (i.e. early October) to welcome everyone back.
Those serving on the social committee will need to get work with CSE faculty/staff in planning these events as well as gathering grad students to volunteer. Ideally, there will be 3 members on this committee, each taking charge of one of the events.
2008-09 : Nathan Goulding [ngouldin], Laura Grupp [lgrupp], Ross Tate [rtate]
2007-08 : Yuvraj Agarwal [yuvraj]
2006-07 : Sat Garcia [sat]
2005-06 : Anthony Choi [buchoi], Allen Chu [awchu]
2004-05 : Allen Chu [allenchu]
2003-04 : Rakesh Kumar [rakumar], Tulika Agrawal [tagrawal]
2002-03 : Erez Perelman, Rakesh Kumar
2001-02 : Doug Brown, Tim Sherwood
Grad Students Helping Grad Students
UCSD Graduate Student Association Representative
Due to the number of students enrolled in the CSE grad program, we
have the right to have four representatives in the council of the GSA (Graduate Students Association). Representatives are the interface between the CSE students and the GSA. GSA reps have the opportunity to express the opinion of their constituents and their own in several issues, such as housing and fee increases. Discussions on topics of interest happen either in council meetings or university committees. The GSA council meets every two weeks and is desirable that at least one rep show up, so that we can be up-to-date
with the latest campus developments. University committees are created whenever the presence of students is necessary to work along with campus administration. Examples of committees created in the past are Parking/Transportation Issues and International Housing Planning. The GSA is also a source of funding for several events in the department, such as the Beach Party and Grad Enrichment talks. Funding requests are presented in finance meetings by a rep and the rep has to be able to explain the nature of the event. Finance meetings also happen every two weeks. For more info, check the GSA web page.
2008-09 : Nathan Bales [nbales], Michael Vrable [mvrable], Bridget Benson [bbenson], 1 UNFILLED
2007-08 : Matt Tong [mhton], Justin Burke [burke], Nathan Bales [nbales], Elizabeth Bales [earrowsm]
2006-07 : Justin Burke [burke], Matt Tong [mhtong], Neel Joshi [njoshi], Dana Dahlstrom [dana], Garo Bournoutian [gbournou]
2005-06 : Garo Bournoutian [gbournou], Dana Dahlstrom [dana], Neel Joshi [njoshi], and Matt Tong [mhtong]
2004-05 : Dana Dahlstrom [dana], Matt Tong [mhtong], Kirill Levchenko [klevchen], and Neel Joshi [njoshi]
2003-04 : Dana Dahlstrom [dana], Chris Roedel
[croedel], Cynthia Bailey Lee [clbailey], Girija Vijayaraghavan [gvijayar], Erik Vandekieft [evk]
2002-03 : Tony Lee, Elena Silenok, Poorna Udupi
2001-02 : Ankur Jain, Flavio Junqueira, Poorna
Udupi, Dimitrii Zagorodnov
2000-01 : Joe Drish, Poorna Udupi
Masters Students Representative
New position for 2008-09
The MS representative will act as a liaison between the students in the MS program and the CSE-GSA. They will be in charge of bringing up any issues that are specific to masters students such as lounge improvements, the process to switch to the Ph.D. program, etc.
2008-09 : Aram Shahinfard
Virtual Community Representative
Many of the events that happen in the department require website support in the form of a wiki, forum, etc. The role of the virtual community representative will be to maintain these support tools and to champion their usage. Currently, the major tasks include maintaining the CSE-GSA wiki and the CSE-GSA community portal.
2008-09 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock], Sat Garcia [sat]
2007-08 : Unfilled
2006-07 : Eric Weigle [eweigle]
2005-06 : Eric Weigle [eweigle]
2004-05 : Eric Weigle [eweigle], Saurabh Panjwani [spanjwan]
2003-04 : Dana Dahlstrom [dana]
2002-03 : Dana Dahlstrom
2001-02 : Dana Dahlstrom
2000-01 : Dmitrii Zagarodnov
Espresso Czar
This individual will be responsible for the maintenance of the espresso machine that resides in the grad student lounge. The espresso czar will
attend a training session on the proper use of the machine and be responsible
for assisting in the development of a clean-up plan, train students who
wish to use the espresso machine, and help to make sure that the necessary
espresso-making supplies are kept in stock.
2008-09 : UNFILLED
2007-08 : Patrick Verkaik [pverkaik]
2006-07 : Patrick Verkaik [pverkaik], Sean Peisert [speisert], Sanmay Das
2005-06 : Neil Alldrin [nalldrin]
2004-05 : Neil Alldrin [nalldrin]
2003-04 : Neil Jones [ncjones]
Social Hour Coordinator (formerly Donut/Bagel Hour)
The coordinators (ideally, 2) ensure that weekly Social hour actually happens. This, however, does not mean doing all the work. The coordinators should ensure that each week a different lab is hosting the event and that they know the steps involved to make the event a success.
At the end of the year, the coordinators should organize the survey to find the best social hour for that year. The winning organizers will be given a small award that is to be presented at the CSE End-of-Year BBQ.
2008-09 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock], PL peeps
2007-08 : Natalie Castellana [ncastell]
2006-07 : Pat Rondon [prondon], Barath Raghavan [barath]
2005-06 : William Beaver [wbeaver], Daniel Tracy [dtracy]
2004-05 : Will Chang [wychang]
2003-04 : Wen Yen Jen [wjen], Mei-Fang Huang [mhuang], Chien-Yi Hou [cyhou]
2002-03 : Leeann Bent
2001-02 : Amit Behere, Renata Teixeira
2000-01 : Student Affairs Office
The following positions used to exist but are no longer necessary or have been relegated outside of CSEGSA.
- Beach Party Czar
- Chez Bob Computer Guru
- Graduate Enrichment Coordinator
- Graduate Student Orientation Coordinator
- Grad Lounge Recycling Coordinator
- Grad Lounge Cleanup
- Group Representatives
