Title: The Hunt for… Jobs and Internships
Abstract: In this talk I’ll discuss how to secure the best jobs and internships for CS students, starting from what you do as soon as you start your studies here, all the way to graduation. I’ll describe the many do’s and dont’s of the process: how to prepare for interviews, how/when to interview, how to negotiate the best deals, and much more. This talk would be important to any new student and even experienced ones: after all, what’s the point of studying to be a great computer scientist if you cannot get the best job you deserve? (Faculty advisers are also welcome to attend...)
BIO:
EREZ ZADOK, ProfessorStony Brook University
Ph.D. 2001, Columbia UniversityErez Zadok's research focuses on operating systems, with a specialty in filesystems, storage, and security. He studies operating systems and filesystems from many aspects: security, efficiency, energy use, scalability,reliability, portability, survivability, usability, ease-of-use,versatility, flexibility, and more. Special attention is given to balancingfive often-conflicting aspects of computer systems: performance,reliability, energy use, security, and ease-of-use. Since joining thefaculty of Stony Brook in 2001, Zadok and his group in the Filesystems andStorage Lab (FSL) developed many file systems and operating systemextensions; examples include a highly-secure cryptographic file system, aportable versioning file system, a tracing file system useful to detectintrusions, a replaying file system useful for forensics, a snapshotting andsandboxing file system, a namespace unification file system, an anti-virusfile system, an integrity-checking file system, a compiler to convertuser-level C code to in-kernel efficient yet safe code, stackable filesystem templates, and more. Zadok's research has been supported by severalNSF grants including an NSF CAREER award, two IBM Faculty awards, two NetAppawards, and several equipment gifts. Zadok is the winner of the 2004Computer Science Department bi-annual Graduate Teaching Award, the winner ofthe 2006 Computer Science Department bi-annual Research Excellence Award,and a recipient of the 2008 SUNY Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching award.Zadok's lab exposes students to internals of over a dozen differentoperating systems. Zadok co-chaired several conferences and is on thesteering committee of some (e.g., ACM SYSTOR, USENIX FAST), as well as onthe editorial board of ACM TOS. Zadok is the author of "Linux NFS andAutomounter Administration" (Sybex, 2001). Zadok's published several dozenconference and journal articles in the past few years---in IEEE, ACM, andUsenix venues; three papers won awards. Zadok is named inventor on fourU.S. patents.Zadok is now the Graduate Academic Adviser at Stony Brook's CS department.
