Publish Date: 02/24/2009

On Monday, February 16, the Computer Science Resources Consortium spring luncheon was held at The Inn at Virginia Tech, followed by CS Career Night later that evening in the Bowman Room of the Jamerson Athletic Center.  At the luncheon, company representatives, faculty, and invited students heard from undergraduate and graduate students working on a variety of research projects.  A variety of topics were described; topics are listed below with the student pictures.   In addition, two student scholarship recipients were recognized.  The CS Department appreciates the generosity of CGI and Vanguard, who made these scholarships possible.

Later in the day, students attended CS Career Night in the Bowman Room.  The CS Career Night event, in its eighteenth year, gave CS majors an opportunity to visit  with our industrial affiliates to discuss internship, co-operative education, and full-time positions.  Twenty one companies were represented at this year’s Career Night event, including the CSRC’s two newest members, Duke Energy and Fidelity.

Pictures from both events are displayed below.

CSRC Luncheon, The Inn, Virginia Tech

James Sheppard (center) is recognized as one of two CGI scholarship winners for 2008/9 academic year.  CGI representative Kirk Lortz (l.) and Dr. Barbara Ryder (r.), Computer Science Department Head. 

Ashley Dooley and Michael Barnette, representatives from Vanguard, help recognize Estelle Kim, winner of a Vanguard Women in IT Award. 

Alex Weisberg describes his research in Henbane Bioinformatics.  Alex is working with Dr. John Jelesko.

Kristin Whetstone talks about her research with Dr. Scott McCrickard, entitled Non-Traditional Visualization and Interaction Systems. 

Promita Chakraborty speaks about her research, Developing Tools for Cell Cycle Modeling.

Amine Chigani discusses Architecture of Network-Centric Systems.

John Linford describes his research in Atmospheric Simultation and Prediction with Supercomputers.

Tejinder Judge speaks about Human Computer Interactions: Contextual Analysis. 

 Career Night in the Bowman Room, located in the Jamerson Athletic Center

Bloomberg

Booz Allen Hamilton

CGI

DCS Corp

Duke Energy

Eastman

Fidelity

HPTi (High Performance Technologies, Inc)

Hughes Network Systems

IBM

Lockheed Martin

MailTrust

ManTech International

Meridium

Microsoft

MicroStrategy

Modea

NetApp

Northrop Grumman

SWIFT

Vanguard

Additonal photos from the events: