Events

Mar 20

Veovo: Employer Info Session

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

CSB 453

Employer informational session with Veovo, a company revolutionizing the way airports and transport hubs manage their operations, providing breakthrough technology that accelerates the transition to intelligent, automated organizations. Representatives will give a presentation about their company, mission, past/upcoming projects and recruitment efforts followed by a Q&A session.

Registration Information is available via VMock.

Mar 20

Coffee and Questions

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

CSB 452

Coffee and Questions will be a recurring social event for current CS students to speak with each other and the CS Advising team in the CS Lounge (CSB 452). Light refreshments will be provided, with occasional faculty/ departmental guests in attendance.

Mar 26

General Purpose and Interactive Video Analytics

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM

CEPSR 750

Francisco Romero, Stanford University

Abstract: The availability of vast video datasets and the increasing accuracy of machine learning models have made exploration of video data an exciting opportunity. Asking complex questions like “Find cases where a car takes a left turn while a pedestrian is crossing the road on a rainy night” over terabytes of videos should be possible. Recent video analytics research expects users will manually reason about their query, combine optimizations, and occasionally train models to meet their performance and accuracy goals. This is a long way from the experience users have when exploring structured data.

In this talk, I will present the design of a general purpose and interactive video analytics system. First, I will present the VIVA video analytics system. VIVA allows users to express domain knowledge about model relationships. VIVA uses this knowledge to automate complex query optimization by deciding how and when it should be applied. Second, I will present Zelda: a system that uses vision-language models to return both relevant and semantically diverse results for top-K video queries. Zelda prompts the VLM with the user’s query in natural language and additional terms to improve accuracy and identify low-quality frames. Zelda improves result diversity by leveraging the rich semantic information encoded in VLM embeddings. Third, I will briefly discuss Llama: a serverless video processing framework. I will conclude by talking about future directions.

Bio: Francisco Romero currently works at a stealth startup that builds automated intelligence technology for evaluating, searching, and analyzing video for law enforcement, private surveillance, and district attorneys. He recently received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where his research spanned general machine learning inference, serverless computing, databases, and datacenter scheduling. He has several publications in top-tier systems and database conferences, including a best paper at USENIX ATC 2021.

Mar 27

Alumni Chat ft. Shahreen | Mastercard Technical Product Manager

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

CSB 452

The Computer Science Department will be hosting an alumni career chat with Columbia/Barnard alum '23 Shahreen Hossain. Shahreen, a Product Manager at Mastercard, studied computational neuroscience and was pre-med as an undergrad. Furthermore, she served as the president of the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) and founded Columbia undergraduate’s first Product Management Fellowship for aspiring product managers and entrepreneurs.

Registration link available via VMock.

Mar 29

Virtual Employer Informational Session: Snowflake

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Zoom

Virtual employer informational session with Snowflake, a cloud computing–based data company, where thousands of organizations have seamless access to explore, share, and unlock the true value of their data.

Representatives will give a presentation about their company, mission, and past/upcoming projects, current recruiting efforts, followed by a Q&A session.

Registration Information is available via VMock.

Apr 08

Employer Info Session: Boehringer Ingelheim

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

CSB 452

Employer informational session with Boehringer Ingelheim; one of the world's largest global, research-driven pharmaceutical companies. Representatives will give a presentation about their company, mission, past/upcoming projects and future recruitment efforts followed by a Q&A session. (Recruiting for entry-level opportunity)

Registration Information will be posted on March 18th, 2024.

Apr 17

Coffee and Questions

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

CSB 452

Coffee and Questions will be a recurring social event for current CS students to speak with each other and the CS Advising team in the CS Lounge (CSB 452). Light refreshments will be provided, with occasional faculty/ departmental guests in attendance.

Apr 29

Last day of classes

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

May 15

Commencement

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM