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Sameer Samat, a vice president at Google who oversees the Android and Google Play products that reach billions of users, was selected as this year’s CSE Distinguished Alumnus.
Samat, who has a 14-year tenure with Google and two successful startups under his belt, was honored this spring at the fourth annual CSE Research Open House that drew more than 300 faculty, students and CSE community members. As Samat and his classmates developed Source Bank and a second company, Mohomine, they reached out to CSE professors for letters of recommendation.
“I still remember Professor {Bill} Griswold’s letter. He had one line where he said, ‘Sameer is fearless.’ I certainly don’t think I’m fearless,” Samat recalled during a videotaped speech at the Research Open House. “But looking back at the odds of our start-up being successful, I think it does take a certain amount of naiveness and belief that you can do anything. Sometimes that combination is mistaken for fearlessness.” Read More
Kimberly (KC) Claffy had just completed her PhD when she noticed a problem: internet measurement data for scientific research might not always be available. The problem showed up soon after she graduated in 1994 when NSFNET, the National Science Foundation-funded Internet backbone infrastructure project, was decommissioned. Claffy founded the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in 1997 to support large-scale data collection, curation and sharing, part of a global effort to develop the still-young discipline of Internet cartography.
“I was concerned it would be impossible to conduct scientific studies on the Internet because the data would be behind proprietary doors of companies that were operating in an extremely competitive environment,” said Claffy, an adjunct professor in CSE and an inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame. Read More
The CSE Alumni Advisory Board – whose mission is to promote community between alumni, students and faculty – welcomed all CSE students on May 5 for a question and answer session about the industry. The panel, which consisted of current board members and industry leaders, included:
The AAB recognized 11 CSE undergraduate and master’s students with scholarships presented at the department’s End of the Year celebration. The AAB Leadership Excellence Scholarships started last year.
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