Computer Science Lunch and Learn Talks

Wednesdays at noon, Duncan Hall 1070. Lunch provided!

Our goal is to educate undergraduate Computer Science majors about computer science outside the classroom, including internships and careers. For further information, please contact John Greiner.

Date Speaker(s) Organization
Aug 24 Summer internship experiences:
Joseph Hwang — Facebook
William Cannon Lewis II — Two Sigma
Ani Kunaparaju — Polymail
Aug 31 Summer internship experiences:
Napas Udomsak — Microsoft
Jake Peacock — HomeAway
Greg Allison — Lookout
Sep 7 Summer internship experiences:
Ashwin Varma — Texas Medical Center research
Ethan Perez — Uber
Raymond Cano — Buoy Health
Sep 14 Michaela Dimoff, Systems Engineer, Rice BioE 2016 GE Healthcare
Sep 21 Elizabeth Liu, Technical Staff, Rice CS BS 2015
Austin Green, Technical Staff, Kansas State BS Software Eng. & Business Management 2016 		Delphix
Sep 28 GaYoung Park, Software Engineer, Rice CS
Kevin Le, Software Engineer, Rice CS BS 2010 		Tubular Labs
Oct 5 Anita Vihayathil, Associate Software Engineer, U.Florida BS EE 2015
Eric Miles, Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Conversational UIs Tech Lead, Virginia Tech BS Accounting 1999, Virginia Tech Master's IT 2010 		Capital One
Oct 12
Oct 19 Jenny Lin, Engineering Manager, CMU CS
Rachel Wong, Recruiting Coordinator, Rice 2016 		Optimizely
Oct 26 Eugene Ng, Graduate Committee Chair, CS Dept. — graduate school Rice University
Nov 2
Nov 9
Nov 16
Nov 30
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Jan 13
Jan 20 Tyler Smith FreeMyVunk
Jan 27
Feb 3
Feb 10 David Nichol — Rice CS 2015 New Relic
Feb 17 Chris Chuckran, Consultant — BS Bioengineering, Rice 2015
Monica Sosa, Consultant — BS Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice 2015
Donovan Bergin, Manager — BBA Management Information Systems, Music, Physics, History, UH 2009 		Hitachi Consulting
Feb 24 Aaron Mielke, Data and Latency Engineer — Rice CS 2002 Quantlab Financial
Mar 9
Mar 16
Mar 23 Caleb Solano RNK Innovations
Apr 6 TBA Pariveda Solutions
Apr 13 Anshumali Shrivastava Rice U.
Apr 20
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Aug 26 Summer internship experiences:
Lily Wen & Joseph Hwang (Facebook)
Jake Peacock (Advisory Board Company — Crimson)
Glenn Zhu (LinkedIn)
Sep 2 Summer internship experiences
Kathy Li (Flipboard — KPCB)
Abhipray Saboo & Josh Lipschultz (Google Zurich & London)
Lauren Khoo (Microsoft)
Sep 9 Summer internship experiences
Wei Zeng (LinkedIn)
GaYoung Park (Tubular Labs)
Nick Hanson-Holtry (Rice U. research)
Karan Thakker & Eric Lee (Epic)
Sep 16 Data Science at Chevron:
Natalie Berestovsky — UTexas BS CS, Rice PhD CS 2013
Shuxing Cheng
Britt Antley — Rice BSEE 2009, Rice MEE 2013 		Chevron
Sep 23 Lennart Koopman — CTO & Founder Graylog
Sep 30 Max Grossman, Ph.D. Student — Rice BS CS 2012, Rice MS CS 2013 Rice U.
Oct 7 Andrea Pound, Project Manager, Real-Time Production Data Delivery
— BFA Drawing, U. Florida 1994; PhD Cultural Anthropology, Rice 2003; MCS, Rice 2004
Chase Jenkins, Studio Transformation Architect
— BS CS, Rice 2007; MCS, Rice 2010
Andrew Whiddon, Software Engineer
— BS CS, Rice 2013
Francois Daube, Production Services Software Engineering Manager
— Diplome Grand Ecole, Ocean Engineering, Ecole Nationale Superior des Techniques Advancees 1981; MS Ocean Engineering, MIT 1982; MS Mech. Eng., Naval Postgraduate School 1983
Olivier Henry, SWT Recruiting Training Development Manager
— MS Mech. Eng. & Math, U.Toulouse 1999; Eng. Fluid Mechanics, ENSAM 2001 		Schlumberger
Oct 14 Rick Song, CS Rice 2013
Salvatore Testa, CS Rice 2014
Marie Chatfield, CS Rice 2015 		Square
Oct 21 Kevin Le, Software Engineer — Rice BSCS 2010 Tubular Labs
Oct 28 Amanda Acevedo, Senior Development Engineer Intuitive Machines
Nov 4 Randy Chang, Software Developer — Rice MCS Epic
Nov 11 Yael Katz Braincheck
Nov 18
Dec 2
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Jan 21 Tom Van Laan, CEO & Founder CloudCalc
Jan 28 Colin Hendricks, Executive Vice President of Software Development — Rice BS MechE 1993, Columbia MS Journalism 1996 Enbase Energy Technology
Feb 4 Waseem Ahmad, Software Engineer — Rice CS 2014 Facebook
Feb 11 Ketan Gangatirkar, Senior Engineering Manager — Rice BA CS 2000 Indeed
Feb 18 Erez Lieberman Aiden, Professor of Genetics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and CAAM Baylor College of Medicine, Rice U.
Feb 25 Paul Kwiatkowski, Chief Tenacity Officer — Rice CS 2011 GroupRaise
Mar 11 Max Grossman, Ph.D. Student — Rice BS CS 2012, Rice MS CS 2013 Rice U.
Mar 25 Travis Fischer, Director of Engineering — Rice BS CS 2006, Georgia Tech MS CS 2007 ChaiOne
Apr 8 Eric Elfman, Founder & CEO — SUNY BA English 1993, Rice MBA 1995 Onit
Apr 15 Klara Jelinkova, Chief Information Officer Rice U.
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Aug 27 Summer internship experiences:
Peter Washington & Glenn Zhu (Amazon) 		Rice U.
Sep 3 Summer internship experiences:
Sean Harger & Josh Lipschultz (Google)
Derek Peirce & Kyle Adams (KPCB Fellows Program) 		Rice U.
Sep 10 Rice CS Startup Meetup TBA
Sep 17 Summer internship experiences:
Beck Chen (Palantir)
Nicholas Hanson-Holtry (Rice. U)
Hadi Tabani (Ventyx) 		Rice U.
Sep 24 Yilun Zhang — Rice CS 2016
Strode Pennebaker, Founder — U. Texas BSME 1974 		Sensorfield
Oct 1 Paige Bailey, Geology and Geophysics Support Analyst — Rice BS Geophysics 2013, Rice MS Geology 2016
Natalie Berestovsky, Data Scientist — UTexas BS CS, Rice PhD CS 2013
Britt Antley, Technical Analyst — Rice BSEE 2009, Rice MEE 2013 		Chevron
Oct 8 Kevin Le, Software Engineer — Rice BSCS 2010 Tubular Labs
Oct 15 Linge Dai, Software Engineer — Rice BA CS 2013 & MS CS 2014 Twitter
Oct 22 Dhevi Rajendran, Software Engineer — Rice BA CS 2013 TwoSigma
Oct 29 Mary Hall, Professor — Rice BA CS 1985, Rice MS CS 1989, Rice PhD CS 1991 School of Computing, University of Utah
Nov 5 Mark Doughty, Chief Design Officer — Rice BS CS & ECE 2000, MCS 2003
Jay Abney, Chief Technology Officer — Rice BA CS 2000 		Aegis Interactive
Nov 12 Ryan Winograd Valence PM
Nov 19 Rice Apps Rice U.
Dec 3 Meagan John TripAdvisor
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Jan 15 Ken Sheldon, Owner
— Rice BSEE & BA CS 1989 		Touchstone Software Solutions
Jan 22 Chris Oakman, Senior UI Developer PROS Pricing
Jan 29
Feb 5 David Huntsman, Team Leader
— Rice MMus 2010 		Epic
Feb 12 Jacob Rosenberg, CTO & Co-Founder
— Rice CS BA 2001		 LendUp
Feb 19 John Broadway, UX Designer
— Rice BSEE 2009
Ryan Azar, Software Developer		 Baker Hughes
Feb 26 Rudy Fink, Judicial Law Clerk
— Rice BS CS 2002		 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Mar 12 Clare Ouyang, Consultant
— Rice BS BIOE 2011, MBE BIOE 2012
John Park, Consultant
— Rice CHBE PhD 2012
Dena Wiltz, Consultant
— Rice BIOE PhD 2013
Bonnie Brent, Consultant
Sadia Mukhtar, Manager, Specialized Services
Alan Hong, Director		 Hitachi Consulting
Mar 19 Kyle Derr, Director of Engineering
— Rice BA CS & Philosophy, 2008		 Civitas Learning
Mar 26 Hy Hoang, Software Developer
— Rice BA CS & Managerial Studies, 2009		 Medical Research Consultants
Apr 9
Apr 16
Date Speaker(s) Organization
Sep 4 Internship experiences:
Waseem Ahmad (Facebook)
Nelson Chen (Nest)
Jennifer Shen (Salesforce) 		Rice U.
Sep 11 Internship experiences:
Sal Testa (Square)
Kevin McDonough (Google)
Yansen Zhou (Owlspark startup) 		Rice U.
Sep 18 Internship experiences:
Julia Hossu (Research at Rice)
Carolyn Shuford, Elizabeth Liu, Jeffrey Dudek (Microsoft)
David Nichol (Zynga) 		Rice U.
Sep 25 Julie Scully, Senior Software Engineer
Rice CS 2002 		Indeed
Oct 2 Britt Antley, Technical Analyst
Rice BSEE 2009 & MEE 2013		 Chevron
Oct 9 Dan Wallach, Professor of Computer Science Rice U.
Oct 16 Max Grossman, Member of Technical Staff
— Rice BSCS 2012 & MS CS 2013 		Delphix
Oct 23 Emma Fauss, Chief Executive Officer
Craig Rusin, Chief Technology Officer
Ralph Krog, Chief Compliance Officer		 Medical Informatics
Oct 30 Weibo He, Software Engineer
— Rice BA CS 2013 & MCS 2013		 Twitter
Nov 6 Keith Kelly, Senior Software Engineer
— Rice BS ECE 1999
Tom Wick, Senior Software Engineer
— Rice BA CS & BS ECE 1992		 Tableau Software
Nov 13 Subba Kondubhatla, Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Warehouse
— Rice MS Civil E 1998
Kathleen Foster, Software Developer
— Rice CS 2012		 General Motors (Austin)
Nov 20 Elspeth (Simpson) White, Patent Counsel
— Rice BS CS & BA Econ 2005		 Google

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