Positions In the CSE Department
CSE-GSA 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 .
- 2012-13 : Neha Chachra [nchachra], Arjun Roy [arroy]
- 2011-12: Neha Chachra [nchachra], Abhishek Kumar [abhishek], Apurva Kumar, Sat Garcia [sat] (senior)
- 2010-11 : Sat Garcia [sat] (senior)
- 2009-10 : Scott Yilek [syilek], Sat Garcia [sat]
- 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
Masters Students Representative
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.
- Current (2011-12) : Abhishek Kumar [abhishek]
- 2010-11 : Bridgette Wiley [bawiley]
- 2009-10 : UNFILLED
- 2008-09 : Aram Shahinfard
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.
- 2012-13 : Nima Nikzad [nnikzad]
- 2011-12: Nima Nikzad [nnikzad]
- 2010-11 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock]
- 2009-10 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock]
- 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
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).
- Current (2011-12) : 1 UNFILLED
- 2010-11 : UNFILLED
- 2009-10 : Justin Ma [jtma]
- 2008-09 : 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
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.
- Current (2011-12) : 1 UNFILLED
- 2010-11 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock]
- 2009-10 : Zach Tatlock [ztatlock]
- 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 Dahlstroms
- 2000-01 : Dmitrii Zagarodnov
Positions for the Socially Inclined
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.
- 2012-13: Matt Der [mfder]
- 2011-12: Nima Nikzad [nnikzad]
- 2010-11 : Nima Nikzad [nnikzad]
- 2009-10 : Ross Tate [rtate]
- 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 Hour Coordinators
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.
- 2012-13 : Dimitar Buonov [dbuonov], Karyn Benson [kbenson]
- 2011-12: Nima Nikzad [nnikzad], Dimitar Buonov [dbuonov]
- 2010-11: Matt Der [mfder], Gjergji Zyba [gzyba], TBA
- 2009-10: Jeff Meister [jmeister], Alden King [apking]
- 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
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 Beginning of the year Potluck
- CSE Winter Party
- CSE End-of-Year BBQ
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.
- Current (2011-12) : Matt Der [mfder], Apurva Kumar [apk005], Dimitar Buonov [dbuonov]
- 2011-12: Matt Der [mfder], Neha Chachra [nchachra], Nima Nikzad [nnikzad]
- 2010-11 : Trevor Bunker [tbunker], Matt Der [mfder], TBA
- 2009-10 : Nathan Goulding [ngouldin], Laura Grupp [lgrupp], John McCullough [jmccullo]
- 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
Positions that Interact with Other Departments
UCSD Graduate Student Association Representatives
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. 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.
- 2014-15: Natalie Larson [nllarson], Gautam Akiwate [gakiwate], Gina Tuazon [gtuazon], Kashyap Tumkur [ktumkur]; Alternate: Dorothy Yen [doyen]
- 2013-14: Natalie Larson [nllarson], Gautam Akiwate [gakiwate]
- 2012-13: Roshni Chandrashekhar [rchandra], Rakesh Varna [rvarna]
- 2011-12 : Nima Nikzad [nnikzad], Rakesh Varna [rvarna], Roshni Chandrashekhar [rchandra], Hung Viet [h6tran]
- 2010-11 : Siddhartha Nath [sinath], Neha
Chachra [nchachra], Aishwarya Venkataraman [avenkata], HungViet Tran
[h6tran], Garo Bournoutian (Alternate) [garo]
- 2009-10 : Michael Vrable [mvrable], Natalie
Castellana [ncastell], Catherine Wah [cwah], Vikram Subramanya
[v1subramanya], Garo Bournoutian (Alternate) [garo]
- 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
Jacobs Graduate Student Council Representatives
The Jacobs Graduate Student Council (JGSC) is an organization of
graduate students in the Jacobs School of Engineering. Their role is to
help foster a sense of community with Jacobs school grad students,
faculty, staff, and alumni. To this end, they organize and sponsor
events throughout the year including:
- Beginning of the year BBQ
- Jacobs School Coffee Hours (in the Bear Courtyard)
- Jacobs School Research Expo Reception
- "An Evening with Jacobs" research seminars
- Many others
There is no cap on the number of representatives the CSE department
can have but there should be at least 2. Responsibilities of JGSC
representatives are to attend JGSC meetings (bi-weekly) and promote JGSC
events within the CSE department. For more info about the JGSC, visit
the JGSC website.
- Current (2011-12) : 2 UNFILLED
- 2010-11 : 1 UNFILLED, Sat Garcia [sat]
- 2009-10 : Sat Garcia [sat], Vikram Subramanya [v1subramanya]
- 2008-09 : Sat Garcia [sat]
Inactive/Discontinued JobsFaculty 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.
- Current (2011-12) : POSITION INACTIVE
- 2010-11 : UNFILLED
- 2009-10 : POSITION CLOSED
- 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
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
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 : No longer part of CSE-GSA
- 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]
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.
- 2010-11 : POSITION INACTIVE
- 2009-10 : POSITION INACTIVE
- 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
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