Goldman Sachs U of U Former Intern Panel - April 3
Event Details
April 3, 2025
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Warnock Enginerring Building (WEB) room 1250
Please join us for the U of U Former Intern Panel. This event will provide you an opportunity to learn more about our businesses, network with Goldman Sachs professionals and learn more about ourSummer program opportunities with Goldman Sachs.
This event is open to all sophomore engineering students as well as incoming new analysts and summer analysts.
Goldman Sachs is where exceptional people build extraordinary careers. We hire people with diverse skill sets, interests, and backgrounds – and we provide them with the hands-on experience to business challenges and opportunities to learn firsthand from the very best.
If you are someone who thrives on excellence, join us at our upcoming event to learn more about Goldman Sachs and our long-standing apprenticeship culture.
We look forward to meeting you.
Announcing the Inaugural Kahlert Impact Prize Honorees
We are proud to recognize the inaugural recipients of the Kahlert Impact Prize.
The Kahlert School of Computing offers the Kahlert Impact Prize to two graduate students who, whether through research or service, show a track record of success and a compelling story of the high impact of their work. Honorees receive a scholarship of $2,000 each.
Amit Samanta
PhD Student
Amit works in the area of system design and implementation. His recent work has focused on serverless computing platforms, which are often deployed by large cloud services. Cloud workloads demand massive resources, and they are often dynamic and unpredictable. Amit’s contributions improve resource utilization while targeting performance and sustainability metrics.
Amit has published many papers at top systems conferences, earning him multiple awards. He has collaborated with industry professionals on some of his work. A key novelty is the deployment of scheduling algorithms that consider cutting-edge technologies like persistent or disaggregated memory. More recently, the carbon footprint of cloud platforms has come under scrutiny – Amit’s ongoing work explores carbon-aware and sustainability-aware network routing schemes. Amit has a long track record of service to his research community, including engagement in program committees, artifact evaluation committees, and event organizing.
Maitrey Mehta
PhD Candidate
Maitrey works to expand the impact of AI to low-resourced languages. While most recent large language model advancements (like ChatGPT) are evident for English, progress in other languages has languished. Maitrey has focused on his native language of Gujarati, with hopes that it provides a roadmap to extend AI technologies to the many other languages spoken by the world’s population.
Maitrey’s vision is to give every human the right to interact with technology in one’s native language. To achieve this, he focuses on a key ingredient for developing this technology: data. Data is the fuel that powers modern LLMs, and there is an unfortunate data disparity across languages. His research aims to find efficient methods to close this resource gap. Maitrey contributed the first semantically annotated dataset in the Gujarati language that also captures cultural nuances. Subsequently, this dataset has been used to create dependency treebanks and other basic language tools like parsers and taggers. Maitrey has collaborated with industry and other groups on campus. He has helped the research community by serving on program committees and through mentorship roles. Among many talks on AI, he has also presented to an audience of veteran business owners at the 7th Annual Utah Veteran Business Conference in 2023.
2025 Data Science & AI Day Sees Over 200 Attendees, Keynote Speaker from Nvidia
Friday, January 24, in the A. Ray Olpin Student Union Ballroom. 229 students, faculty members, University staff members, and attendees from the general public gathered in the A. Ray Olpin Student Union ballroom on Friday, January 24, for The Utah Center for Data Science’s annual Data Science & AI day.
Keeping Us Posted
The event began with 10 research poster presentations from current students sharing their knowledge with peers and professors alike. Simultaneously, partners with University Career Success hosted a Data Science & AI Career Fair, connecting students with professionals across the Silicon Slopes as they prepare to enter the workforce.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Dieter Fox of Nvidia & U Washington
The public has witnessed huge advances in generative artificial intelligence, including large language models, chatbots, and image and video generation tools. How has this progress impacted robotics?
This is the question that Dieter Fox, Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia and University of Washington Professor, captivated the attendees while addressing during his keynote. Professor Fox identified large scale data as a primary ingredient to recent advances in generative AI. He then proposed several directions for generating large scale data for robot learning, focusing on his work in using large scale, parallelized simulation as the primary tool to enable massive data generation. He also discussed how this could be combined with human demonstrations. His keynote concluded by demonstrating exciting recent advances achieved using these techniques and gave his thoughts on how neural network architectures should evolve to further their use in robotics.
Research Highlights
The afternoon session culminated with research highlights from across the University who have practically applied data science & AI within their work.
Assistant Professor Ziad Al-Halah's (Kahlert School of Computing) section "AI in Computer Vision" regarded spatial features in the audio-visual medium.
Associate Professor Xiaoyue Cathy Liu's (Civil & Environmental Engineering) section "DS of Human Mobility" discussed AI applications for traffic patterns and safety.
Research Assistant Professor Shiqi Yu (Physics and Astronomy) closed out the day's presentations with her "ML for Astronomy" section.
School of Computing Alum Reflects on Time at University and Pixar in His Book “Managing the Unmanageable”
From the Cradle of Computer Graphics at the University of Utah to Pixar Animation Studios, my 50+ year professional career has been a parabola of many groundbreaking projects, as well as startup companies—some that have become household names, including Brøderbund Software, Gracenote/SONY, and others. It has been an exciting and rewarding journey not only because of the bleeding edge technology and innovative products I worked on, but also due to the privilege of working with, managing, and leading people in these companies. I reflect on part of this journey in this article and my book “Managing The Unmanageable”.
Remembering Frank Stenger
Frank Stenger, a Kahlert School of Computing emeritus faculty member, passed away on October 23, 2024. Frank joined the Department of Computer Science at Utah in 1989 and retired from the School of Computing in 2008.
Frank spent 20 years teaching and conducting research in the School of Computing, prior to joining the School he spent 20 years as a professor in the Department of Mathematics here at the University of Utah. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Alberta (Engineering--Physics, with emphasis on Electrical Engineering), continuing at the University of Alberta he received Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering (Servomechanisms) and in Mathematics (Numerical Analysis), and a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Computational Asymptotics).
During his lifelong career, he produced a large body of original research in the development of algorithms, in areas “less traveled on” by other researchers, such as computational approximation, solution of nonlinear equations, Sinc methods; these yield novel methods for solving partial differential and integral equations. He also developed algorithms for non-destructive viewing of a part of a human being, and for determining whether the vote count at a voting center is fraudulent. He was an extremely productive scholar, publishing more than 200 papers and multiple books. Frank also lectured in over 20 different countries.
Frank was born in Hungary, and after WWII, he lived in East Germany, then in West Germany, then in Canada, finally landing in the United States after completion of his course studies.
There will be a celebration of Frank’s life on November 23, 2024.
