"What I am working on now focuses on natural language processing—how natural language machine learning products work, how they fail, and how we can build more robust systems that are resilient to unfair biases."
Technology for a Changing World
Humans of BSOE
Computer Science and Engineering
"What I am working on now focuses on natural language processing—how natural language machine learning products work, how they fail, and how we can build more robust systems that are resilient to unfair biases."
Computer Science and Engineering
"Research has given me a lot of academic and industry knowledge. I feel more prepared to take on real-world challenges."
Computer Science and Engineering
"Baskin [Engineering] gave me that forefront of knowledge that allowed me to excel in my graduate career."
Statistics
"It’s exciting to introduce the topic of statistics to people that have no prior knowledge or experience with the field. My goal is to motivate students to keep learning about the field of statistics."
Computer Science and Engineering
"One highlight from the research I’ve done in my Ph.D. program is winning the ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition in Amsterdam in 2019. It was a very exciting moment for me."
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Getting that first lead-author paper was a big step in my research career. It reassured me that my ideas are valid, and I’m making notable contributions to the field of engineering."
Computer Science & Engineering
"I was always good at math and science growing up. I found comfort knowing that there is a solution in numbers, formulas, or algorithms."
Computer Science and Engineering
"The TIM degree program encompassed everything that I was interested in because you get to learn about computer engineering, computer science, and business and information systems."
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"My dream job would be one where I could develop wearable bioelectronic devices for health monitoring."
Professor and Department Chair, Statistics
"What I do as a statistician is crunch the numbers. We take data, compare it to what a climatologist’s model predicts, and give them our conclusions and how sure we are of those conclusions."
Biomolecular Engineering
"Bioengineering really exposed me to the humanitarian side of science, which is something I have always wanted to be involved in."
Computer Engineering
"I would have never thought I would get an internship at NASA! It’s great... I focus on helping to develop the next level of air transportation in the U.S. and other parts of the world through NASA partnerships. If you heard of the concept of an “Air Taxi” then that sums it up."
Computer Science and Engineering
"[NLP is] a new enough field that there are cool things for students and researchers to get involved with. A degree in NLP will help me focus on what I want to do."
Electrical Engineering
"I’ve gotten a lot of opportunities at BSOE. It’s been really amazing. I was able to join a bioelectronics lab my sophomore year, and I’m still working in that lab."
Natural Language Processing
"I grew up with computers, so choosing to go in that direction was pretty easy. But after spending two years in Japan I realized I love languages too and wanted to see if there was an overlap between linguistics and computer science. After doing some research I found natural language processing (NLP) and realized it was something I wanted to do."
Biomolecular Engineering
"Getting into the lab was probably the best time out of my whole UCSC career... I felt like everything that I learned in class was finally playing out and I could learn things more hands-on."
Electrical Engineering
"[Being in the Army] definitely was an experience that opened my eyes to a lot of different opportunities and experiences that you can’t find anywhere else, I would say. In addition to that, finishing my time there, I was able to go back to UC Santa Cruz, to finish something that I had wanted to do."
Natural Language Processing
"We’re getting real experts who work in the industry to show us how they use the technology and what they do with it. Getting that perspective is really cool."
Computer Science
"I realized, being first generation American, that I value hard work. I value being persistent. I value being kind of gritty. So if someone tells me, I can't, I'm going to go ahead and do it. That's just me."
Undergraduate Advising
"I feel very fortunate and blessed to work with the people that I do, because everyone cares so much about the students and doing the right thing. They have made what I thought would be an impossible situation possible."
Computer Science and Engineering
"Join as many orgs and clubs as interest you… because you will meet a lot of great people... It is really about the people that you know, how you carry yourself through and what kind of support system you have around yourself."
Natural Language Processing
"It’s amazing hearing from people who are working on NLP now -- for example the professor teaching my five o’clock class is teaching at five because he’s working with the technology during the rest of the day. I feel lucky to have these people teaching us."
Computer Science
"I've had people come up to me and say, “your class is the reason I got an internship or a job offer,” and that is wonderful. It's definitely one of my prouder moments."
