Sixteen student teams competed for $6000 in prize money in the 2020 UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest. All three finalists were from the Baskin School of Engineering and represented projects for social good.
Degree Program: Computer Science, B.S.
Graduate Institution: Stony Brook University
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Department: Computer Science
“I’ve had people come up to me and say, “your class is the reason I got an internship or a job offer,” and that is wonderful. It’s definitely one of my prouder moments.”
Lynne Sheehan, network administrator for the Baskin School of Engineering and avid supporter of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz, is retiring after 33 years of service to UC Santa Cruz.
As a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, Shereen Oraby was on the cutting edge of research in Natural Language Processing. Now she is working on developing machine learning models for one of the world’s best-known virtual assistants.
Incoming AD prepares to take on role as “change agent” to enhance education for engineering students.
In 2012, seven female students from the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz were admitted to a unique scholarship program at eBay. Eight years later, four of these students can call themselves inventors.
Carmen Robinson will advance student excellence and achievement.
Degree Program: Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Undergraduate Institution: Azad University
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Hometown: Tehran, Iran
“We want to provide greater context around online content for consumers, and reduce the amount of time people have to devote to sorting through information.”
Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Matthew Guthaus, Professor Lise Getoor, Assistant Professor Lindsey Kuper, and Professor Jose Renau will receive funding and support, which includes tuition for a graduate student.
UCSC students share how they got introduced to engineering, and what they love about it.
Based at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Campus, the new professional master’s degree offers training in the burgeoning field of computational processing of speech and text.
