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Employer Expo Series: JPMorganChase (MLCOE)
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Davis Auditorium
The Machine Learning Center of Excellence (MLCOE) applies the latest ML and AI methods to challenging problems across JPMorganChase. We actively collaborate with data analytics, engineering, and product teams across all functions – from sales and trading to digital, operations, finance, and risk – and every line of business from wholesale banking through to retail. They are actively recruiting for Summer 2026 and Full time opportunities.
For more information regarding the company, please feel free to the company website: https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/applied-ai-and-ml/machine-learning
Registration Information will be posted via email, VMock and CampusGroups.
*Event Audience: Columbia Graduate Students (MS & PhD), Bridge Students
Nvidia Tech Talk: From Chips to Critical AI Tech
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Virtual
NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve. Our work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society -- from gaming, to robotics, self-driving cars to life-saving healthcare, climate change to virtual worlds where we can all connect and create.
In this technical talk, you’ll hear from NVIDIA engineers as they share topics ranging from chip design verification to TensorRT safety engineering in the real world. We'll spend time discussing how to navigate the recruiting process and career opportunities.
For more information regarding the company, please feel free to the company website: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/
Registration Information will be posted via email, VMock and CampusGroups.
*Event Audience: CS Undergraduate & Graduate Students & Bridge Students.
Lazard On-Campus Interview Day
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
CS Lounge
Lazard provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and capital solutions, restructuring and liability management, geopolitics, and other strategic matters, as well as asset management and investment solutions to institutions, corporations, governments, partnerships, family offices, and high net worth individuals.
Recuriters and alumni will be conducting on-campus interviews for the 2026 summer Data Engineer Intern, AI Engineer Intern, and Software Engineer Intern. We are collecting resumes on the employer's behalf. Please fully complete the Google Form and submit your resume for consideration. The Google Forms can be found via email or VMock.
*Event Audience: Columbia Graduate Students (MS & PhD)
OMSCS – The Best Degree Program Ever?
11:40 AM to 12:40 PM
CSB 451 CS Auditorium
Zvi Galil, Georgia Tech
Abstract:
In May 2013, Georgia Tech together with its partners, Udacity and AT&T, announced a new online master’s degree in computer science delivered through the platform popularized by massively open online courses (MOOCs). This new online MS in CS (OMSCS) costs less than $7,000 total, compared to a price tag of $40,000 for an MS CS at comparable public universities and upwards of $70,000 at private universities. The first-of-its-kind program was launched in January 2014 and has sparked a worldwide conversation about higher education in the 21st century. President Barack Obama has praised OMSCS by name twice, and hundreds news stories mentioned the program. It’s been described as a potential “game changer” and “ground zero of the revolution in higher education”. Harvard University researchers concluded that OMSCS is “the first rigorous evidence showing an online degree program can increase educational attainment” and predicted that OMSCS will single-handedly raise the number of annual MS CS graduates in the United States by at least 7 percent.
OMSCS started in 2014 with 5 courses and 380 students; in fall 2025 semester it had 46 courses and almost 17,000 students. OMSCS is apparently the biggest academic program in the world in any subject, not necessarily online. So far almost 14,500 students have graduated from OMSCS, over 7,000 in the last 3 years. The number of applications to OMSCS keeps rising. In the 2024-25 academic year there were 9,860 applications, 31% higher than the record in the year before. The program has also paved the way for more than 50 similar programs in over 30 universities. In November 2023, a Forbes article described OMSCS as the best degree program ever. There has been a big shortage of computing professionals in the US. Therefore, OMSCS is satisfying a great national need. Starting in 2017, Georgia Tech expanded its online offerings to undergraduate computer science students. The talk will describe the OMSCS program, how it came about, its first twelve years, and what Georgia Tech has learned from the OMSCS experience. It will also discuss the speaker’s vision of the future of higher education with much larger role for online learning.
1st Coffee Chat Session x SAP - Global Vice President, Lockie Antonopoulos
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Virtual
Join us for the 1st session of an exclusive coffee chat with Lockie Antonopoulos, Global Vice President of Intelligent Spend and Business Network Value Advisory at SAP. Lockie brings decades of experience at the intersection of business and technology, with expertise in supply chain optimization, vendor management, and enterprise software integration. Known for fostering collaboration between IT and business units and driving innovation in business process engineering, he offers valuable insights into leading innovation in complex, global organizations.
Whether you're interested in technology strategy, enterprise solutions, leadership in global organizations, or advice on navigating the tech and business space, this conversation offers valuable perspectives and the chance to ask network and directly ask questions.
Registration Information will be posted via email, VMock and CampusGroups.
*Event Audience: CS Graduate Students (Ms/PhD) & Bridge Students.
How to Close the 100,000-Year “Data Gap” in Robotics
11:40 AM to 12:40 PM
CSB 451 CS Auditorium
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
Abstract:
Large models based on internet-scale data can now pass the Turing Test for intelligence. In this sense, data has "solved" language and many analogously claim that data has solved speech recognition and computer vision. Will data also solve robotics and automation, allowing general-purpose humanoid robots to achieve human-level performance? Using commonly accepted metrics for converting word and image tokens into time, the amount of internet-scale data used to train contemporary large vision language models (VLMs) is on the order of 100,000 years. I’ll review 3 ways researchers are pursuing to close this gap, and a 4th approach, where data is collected as real robots operate in real commercial environments -- which requires bootstrapping with AI and "good old-fashioned engineering" to create robots with real return on investment that will be adopted by industry. Such robots can create a "data flywheel" to increase performance and enable new functionality, accelerating the timeline to achieve reliable, general-purpose robots.
Informational Session: Dandy
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CS Lounge
Dandy was created with one goal in mind: to modernize the dental lab process. Their platform is designed to level up practices by making the entire process effortlessly digital — from start to finish. They are actively recruiting for Machine Learning Engineer internships and full-time roles. Representatives will conduct an in-person Employer informational session and offer a presentation about their company, mission, past/upcoming projects and future recruitment efforts followed by a Q&A session. For more information regarding the company, please feel free to the company website: meetdandy.com
Registration Information will be posted via email, VMock and CampusGroups.
*Event Audience: CS Graduate Students (Ms/PhD) & Bridge Students.
2nd Coffee Chat Session x SAP - Global Vice President, Lockie Antonopoulos
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Virtual
Join us for the 2nd exclusive coffee chat with Lockie Antonopoulos, Global Vice President of Intelligent Spend and Business Network Value Advisory at SAP. Lockie brings decades of experience at the intersection of business and technology, with expertise in supply chain optimization, vendor management, and enterprise software integration. Known for fostering collaboration between IT and business units and driving innovation in business process engineering, he offers valuable insights into leading innovation in complex, global organizations.
Whether you're interested in technology strategy, enterprise solutions, leadership in global organizations, or advice on navigating the tech and business space, this conversation offers valuable perspectives and the chance to ask network and directly ask questions.
Registration Information will be posted via email, VMock and CampusGroups.
*Event Audience: CS Graduate Students (Ms/PhD) & Bridge Students.
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