Career Talks - April 2021 Registration
This is the last month of Career Talks for the current academic year and we are hosting some of the elite speakers from tech industry.
1. April 3, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST - Exploring the world of UX by Rachel Miles
Rachel Miles Sijacic. UX Strategist and Researcher at IBM
User experience (UX) professionals have a wide range of backgrounds. Rachel is no exception. Rachel completed her bachelor's degree in Spanish Literature from Presbyterian College and masters in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology. While completing her masters, she worked in various roles in the field of user experience design before deciding on her current role. In this interactive presentation, Rachel will be sharing her experience that led her into UX and various career opportunities in the field of UX.
2. April 10, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST - Entering the field of Software Engineering by Ulani Qi.
Ulani Qi, Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Ulani has a B.S. in Cognitive Science with additional majors in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020. She is currently working towards her M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. We will be looking at software engineering with fresh perspective.
3. April 17, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST Pivoting into Data by Tanaya Sawant
Tanaya Sawant, Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon
Tanaya has done her bachelor's in Economics with minor in Accounting from UC San Diego. During this time, she did a semester from King's College in London. She started working at Amazon right after her graduation. Tanaya will be giving us a perspective of her journey and data oriented career.
4. March 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST Data Science and AI - potential and opportunity by Ashish Thusoo
Ashish Thusoo, Entrepreneur, Investor, Ex-CEO, Tech-Pioneer and Author
Ashish is an ex-CEO and a cofounder of Qubole - a cloud data lake company. Last year, Qubole was acquired by Idera Inc. Earlier in his career, he was a head of data infrastructure for Facebook. Join us to listen to Ashish on April 24,2021 at 7:00 pm