Industry Partner NVIDIA

October 10, 15, 18, and 22

Zoom, Graduate Student Commons Study Lounge 204, Silicon Valley Campus, and Microsoft Teams

The Division of Graduate Studies collaborates with A2i Industry Partner NVIDIA for two NVIDIA-hosted A2i Modules: Industry Insights and Job Search Strategies: Resume Reviews. In addition, Erin Busch of Career Success hosts Resume Building and Resume Feedback and Networking as part of this series. The cohort for this series has been selected.

• Resume Building
• NVIDIA A2i Industry Insights
• Resume Feedback and Networking
• NVIDIA A2i Job Search Strategies: Resume Reviews

Resume Building

Erin Busch, Career Engagement Specialist for the Baskin School of Engineering, Career Success
October 10, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Zoom

Your resume is the foundation of your job search, and crafting one that highlights your extensive academic achievements while demonstrating practical experience can be daunting. In this workshop, we’ll delve into these nuances, helping you tailor your resume to your career goals to help you better translate your research, teaching, and specialized skills into a format that non-academic employers understand. We’ll also go over cover letter best practices and ways to customize them for the roles that you’re applying for.

Erin Busch is a career engagement specialist in Career Success, where she specializes in helping students identify, prepare, and achieve their career goals through one-on-one coaching, as well as creating educational programming in various mediums. In addition, she helps students find research opportunities and assists them in their preparation and application to graduate school. Erin also works closely with the tech industry and Baskin Engineering alumni to create professional development workshops and internship pathway programs. Much of her work focuses on providing opportunities for students from underserved backgrounds, and she frequently collaborates with various campus resource centers.

Prior to her role at UCSC, Erin spent over 12 years developing educational conferences and workshops for senior-level and C-suite executives in the financial services industry across the country. She received her undergraduate degree from California State University, Monterey Bay, and her Master of Education from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She enjoys hiking, photography, and volunteers with various environmental conservation organizations.

NVIDIA A2i Industry Insights

Brian Cuadra, University Recruiting Campus Manager, NVIDIA
Thomas Nijssen (M.S. Computer Engineering 2021), Senior GPU Architecture Engineer, NVIDIA
October 15, 2:00-3:00 p.m. | Graduate Student Commons Study Lounge 204 | Silicon Valley Campus | Microsoft Teams

Brian Cuadra introduces Nvidia and its industry, highlighting positions for advanced degree holders, knowledge bases and experience desired for those positions, and tips on what will make recruiters take notice of resumes and applications.

As a campus manager on NVIDIA’s University Recruiting Team, Brian Cuadra invites students to do their “Life’s Work” by connecting them to life-changing opportunities at the start of their careers. Prior to NVIDIA, he had the pleasure of helping build the next generation of talent at companies like Microsoft and Peloton and is now excited to do that at NVIDIA. Brian is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Thomas Nijssen speaks on his career path at NVIDIA and his current role at the company.

Thomas is an alumnus of UCSC (Crown 2019; M.S. 2021), both degrees in Computer Engineering. He just completed his third year at NVIDIA as a GPU architecture engineer, primarily working on the Context Switch unit design and simulators. His interests are the intersection of computer architecture, hardware design, and embedded software, combining those to create the next generation of accelerators. He grew up in San Jose and still lives there. Beyond work, he enjoys traveling and the outdoors.

Resume Feedback and Networking

Erin Busch, Career Engagement Specialist for the Baskin School of Engineering, Career Success
October 18, 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Zoom

In this workshop, we’ll reflect on the previous resume workshop and then discuss the power of networking. Networking is one of the most important tools to jumpstart your career, but it’s also not something commonly taught, nor does it always come naturally. We’ll cover the benefits of networking, where to network, how to network, and useful tips, while also getting a chance to practice these skills in a comfortable environment. This workshop will be very interactive!

See Erin’s bio for the October 10 Resume Building Workshop.

NVIDIA A2i Job Search Strategies: Resume Reviews

Brian Cuadra, University Recruiting Campus Manager, NVIDIA
Orazio Gallo (Ph.D. Computer Engineering 2011), Principle Scientist, NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Shelby Guzak, University Ph.D. Technical Sourcer, NVIDIA
Sloan Liu (M.S. Computer Engineering 2022), GPU Verification Engineer, NVIDIA
October 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m. | Microsoft Teams | Graduate Student Commons Study Lounge 204

In this session, NVIDIA recruiter Brian Cuadra will be joined by colleagues Orazio Gallo, Shelby Guzak, and Sloan Liu in reviewing the resumes of graduate student participants in groups of four to five. The student participants will receive feedback on how to present themselves in the best ways to get noticed and considered for graduate student internships and permanent positions with NVIDIA. Brian will host the MS Teams meeting with Shelby and Sloan, while Orazio will meet CSE Ph.D. student participants in person at the Graduate Student Commons Study Lounge 204. Orazio and the students at the Graduate Student Commons will also join the MS Teams meeting from the room’s DTEN.

Orazio Gallo is a principal scientist at NVIDIA Research, where he leads a team working on next-generation algorithms for computational imaging and low-level computer vision perception, particularly for autonomous navigation and robotics applications. He regularly publishes in top-tier computer vision conferences. His early work on loss functions for image restoration with deep learning is the most cited ever paper of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, where he is a senior associate editor. From 2018 to 2022, he was a member of the IEEE Computational Imaging Technical Committee, and from 2015 to 2017 an associate editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication. He regularly serves as area chair for the main computer vision conferences. He received an M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from UCSC in 2011. He’s been with NVIDIA Research since 2011. Website: https://oraziogallo.github.io/

Shelby Guzak came to NVIDIA after working for Meta, Microsoft, and Honeywell as a recruiter. At NVIDIA, she specializes in recruiting Ph.D. holders for research roles in generative AI, computer vision, large language models (LLM), and AI agents, among other computer engineering and software specialties. Shelby received an M.A. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a B.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Spanish from the University of Northern Iowa.

Sloan Liu worked as a graduate student intern for NVIDIA in the summer of 2021 while getting his M.S. in Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. After graduating in 2022, Sloan started at NVIDIA as a GPU verification engineer, his current position. Sloan also attended UCSC for his B.S. in Computer Engineering, which he received in 2020. While an undergraduate, Sloan worked as an information technology specialist intern for Roche from 2019 to 2020.

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