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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Prospective Student Information Sessions (PSIS)
DESCRIPTION:The Prospective Student Information Sessions give interested students an opportunity to learn about the undergraduate program offerings at the Bloustein School. There is an overview of each major\, minor\, and certificate program\, including the admissions criteria and application processes for current and prospective Rutgers students. Also\, students are encouraged to bring questions and the host advisor(s) will be glad to answer them or refer the student to the appropriate department/office. \nSessions will be offered via Zoom. A link will be sent to registered students the day prior to the event. \nThe sessions are approximately one hour. Please log in on time. \nPlease register at https://go.rutgers.edu/EJBfall23ugprospect-events
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/undergraduate-prospective-student-information-sessions-psis/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Career Information Session,Public,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CAREERS:  LinkedIn Best Practices
DESCRIPTION:There’s no doubt that networking is the number one way to land jobs and internships and LinkedIn is a MUST for all professionals. Learn more about the importance of LinkedIn which will help you get more comfortable networking via social media. \nRegistration coming soon
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/careers-linkedin-best-practices/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Career Professional Development,CAREERS,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T163000
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SUMMARY:CAREERS:  Resume Critiques
DESCRIPTION:As the new year/semester is just beginning\, this is the perfect time to update your resume and get it critiqued! This virtual event will be held in a small group format and you will receive immediate feedback from Career Management professionals\, HR professionals and alumni who work in urban planning\, policy and health administration fields. \nPlease go to the following link to register:\nhttps://go.rutgers.edu/FallResumeCritiques
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/careers-resume-critiques/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Career Professional Development,CAREERS,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T163000
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CREATED:20230821T202114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T181115Z
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SUMMARY:CAREERS: MHA Alumni Administrative Fellows Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming back MHA Alumni\, Allie ChuJitty Joseph\, Hannah Maisel\, and Ayushi Pandya as they discuss their Administrative Fellowships as well as provide advice regarding the fellowship application and interviewing process. \nRegister: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlfuGorzouEtLgx3Lx965i7MVvEcXfvLSy
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/careers-mha-alumni-administrative-fellows-panel/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Career Workshop Panel Roundtable,CAREERS,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230908T120000
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SUMMARY:CAREERS: International Student Career & Internship Resource Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join your Bloustein student and academic services support staff- Andrea Garrido\, Cheryl Egan\, Greg Marrero and Courtney Culler – as well as our partners from RU Global – Audrey Nguyen\, Bloustein Liaison and International Student Advisor – to learn about the career and internship resources and services available at Bloustein and Rutgers University to support our international students. \nRegister: https://go.rutgers.edu/IntlStudentResourcesInfoSession
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/international-student-career-internship-resource-information-session/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Career Information Session,CAREERS,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Informatics at Rutgers: Knowledge Graphs in Natural Language Processing: Overcome Domain Adaptation Challenges in Language Models
DESCRIPTION:This event was hosted by the PISG\, the MPI program and the Rutgers Urban & Civic Informatics (RUCI) Lab\, the Bloustein Student Services and BGSA in collaboration with our partners at Rutgers University and our external collaborators. \nEvent presented by Vivek Kumar\, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Scholar\, University of Cagliari\, Italy \nVivek Kumar is an NLP Enthusiast. He is presently working as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Researcher with the University of Cagliari\, Italy and Philips Research\, Netherlands for PhilHumans (European Commission\, Horizon 2020\, ITN project). Prior to this\, he worked as a Research Engineer for the project “Search for Hidden Particle” (SHiP) of the European Commission of Nuclear Research (CERN) at NUST-MiSiS. He received his MS degree from NUST-MiSiS in Computer Science. In his career so far\, he has authored several publications with Journals\, Book Series and Conferences of International repute. He is also the reviewer / editor for several Journals and International Conferences of IEEE\, Springer\, ACM\, etc. \nWatch the recorded event at
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/intelligent-informatics-knowledge-graphs-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Informatics,Public,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Informatics at Rutgers: Open Data for Society: Accelerating Solutions for Society's Most Pressing Challenges
DESCRIPTION:We welcomed our distinguished speakers from the AI for Good Lab @ Microsoft. \n\nAnthony Cintron Roman is the Director of Data Architecture & Strategy with the AI for Good Lab at Microsoft\, where he works with a team of data engineers\, data scientists and researchers in Machine Learning and data science-based projects across Microsoft AI for Good efforts. He specializes in cloud solution architecture and open innovation and has a BS in computer science and an MBA with a specialty in the management of information systems.\nLucas A. Meyer is the Principal Data Scientist with the AI for Good Lab at Microsoft\, and he specializes in models to promote economic development and detect financial misconduct. Lucas also worked in fraud detection at Amazon\, and has an M.Sc. and an MBA from the University of Washington.\nProf. Jim Samuel\, Director of the Master of Public Informatics (MPI) program at the Bloustein School\, provided closing comments on the potential societal implications of combining artificial intelligence and open data.
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/intelligent-informatics-open-data-for-society/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Informatics,Public,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Informatics at Rutgers: Data Visualization with Python Jupyter Notebooks – A Hands-on Introduction
DESCRIPTION:The session consisted of brief presentations\, with around 100 minutes of interactive work-along demo of data visualization with Jupyter Notebooks\, and ended with Q&A. Participants learned to create data visualizations and can opt to either access Rutgers University’s high-performance computing (HPC) platform/cloud* or to run the code locally on their own computers. \n\nDr. Bala Desinghu\, Senior Scientist from OARC\, Rutgers University provided an interactive introduction to data visualization with insights on the use of high-performance computing.\nDr. Abhishek Tripathi\, Associate Professor\, School of Business\, TCNJ\, introduced the use of Python libraries such as Seaborn\, Plotly and Cufflinks for creating advanced and interactive data visualizations.\nDr. Jim Samuel\, Associate Professor\, Rutgers Bloustein School\, concluded the session with insights on the use of Artificial Intelligence for visualizations and language data visualizations.\n\nThis workshop was hosted by the Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab (RUCI Lab) at the Bloustein School and the Rutgers Office of Advanced Research Computing and sponsored by the Bloustein School Master of Public Informatics program. It was organized by Dr. Bala Desinghu and Dr. Jim Samuel in collaboration with our partners\, the Eastern Regional Network (ERN)\, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDI Hub)\, and the New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA).
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/intelligent-informatics-data-visualization-python-jupyter/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Informatics,Public,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260517T190759
CREATED:20220201T214150Z
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Informatics at Rutgers: Introduction to the Power of GitHub for Analytics
DESCRIPTION:This workshop instructed participants in how to get started with GitHub from scratch\, including the basics of GitHub (account creation\, organization use\, permissions\, and more); using GitHub to manage code and projects for academic research and teaching; best practices for data science workflows in GitHub; GitHub Actions for automated web scraping\, data acquisition and dynamic data visualizations via RMarkdown; and publishing static websites and hosting them via GitHub pages. \nThis workshop was led by Gavin Rozzi\, Research Computing Specialist at the Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab (RUCI Lab). Gavin also teaches graduate courses in the Bloustein School’s Master of Public Informatics Program.
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/intelligent-informatics-github-analytics/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Informatics,Public,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T133000
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Informatics at Rutgers: Public Informatics for a Better Future: Textual Analytics with R and Social Media Data
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual workshop\, Dr. Jim Samuel\, Executive Director of the Bloustein School’s Master of Public Informatics\, provides an interactive introduction to textual analytics and natural language processing. The session includes a presentation and an approximate 30-minute interactive work-along demonstration for textual analytics using R-Studio. Participants will learn to generate insights from social media data related to current events or issues of public importance.
URL:https://dev.bloustein.rutgers.edu/event/intelligent-informatics-texual-analytics-r-social-media-data/
LOCATION:Virtual
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