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Viterbi - Resume & Cover Letter 1.0: What Recruiters Look For
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi engineering students only. Non-Viterbi students will not be admitted. Please register on Handshake.
Wondering how to write a strong resume? Join Viterbi Career Connections for "Resume & Cover Letter 1.0: What Recruiters Look For," an introductory workshop designed to help you get started on crafting an effective resume and cover letter to ensure you stand out by reflecting on your greatest strengths, skills, and accomplishments. Find out what employers look for, review tips and samples, and explore different resume formats. Have your resume draft ready to take notes and make modifications in real-time!
In this informative session, you will:
Understand the fundamental components of a resume and cover letter, including formatting, structure, and content.
Identify key elements recruiters look for in resumes and cover letters.
Learn how to structure and write a cover letter that effectively introduces yourself and complements your resume.
Understand the best practices for formatting and structuring your documents to ensure they are Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and AI-friendly.
Learn how AI comes into play and how to utilize it effectively.
Walk away with the next steps to make your resume application-ready.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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Viterbi - Resume 2.0: How to Turn Applications into Interviews
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi engineering majors only. Non-Viterbi students will not be admitted. Please register through Handshake.
Wondering what resumes get picked for interviews? Join Viterbi Career Connections for "Resume 2.0: How to Turn Applications into Interviews," a workshop designed to provide you with strategies and techniques to make your resume stand out. By the end of the session, you should feel more confident in creating a resume that captures recruiters' attention and conveys your qualifications for the positions you are applying for.
In this informative and interactive session, you will:
Understand the importance of tailoring your resume and cover letter to specific job descriptions and how this directly impacts interview invitations.
Learn how to write a cover letter highlighting your suitability for the position.
Understand the importance of how to align your skills and experiences with the job description.
Learn how AI comes into play and how you can utilize it effectively.
Identify and incorporate industry-specific keywords that will help your resume get noticed.
Gain insights into what makes an application stand out versus what can detract from your candidacy.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
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How Hollywood AI Helps Creators Go Global
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Hao Li , CEO/Co-Founder of Pinscreen
Talk Title: How Hollywood AI Helps Creators Go Global
Abstract: In this talk I will talk about our journey on bringing digital humans to life in Hollywood, and how we use AI to democratize technologies for generating and manipulating photorealisitc human faces. I will showcase some use cases of our technologies developed at my startup Pinscreen, and how top film studios and streaming companies have adopted our approach for AI-driven visual effects, including face swapping, actor de-aging, and facial reenactment. One particular scalable application consists of dubbing movies from foreign language into English, where lips are perfectly matched to the translated content using AI. I will show how we are moving from Hollywood adoption to building a consumer product: pindub.ai for any Internet content creator. I will also showcase some our recent research efforts at MBZUAI with focus on more advanced generative AI capabilities and metaverse application such as telepresence using the currently most advanced one-shot head reenactment system.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium.
Biography: Hao Li is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pinscreen, a Los Angeles-based startup renowned for its pioneering generative AI technologies in visual effects, dubbing, and digital humans. He is also Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and the Director of the MBZUAI Metaverse Center. Previously, Hao was a Distinguished Fellow with the Computer Vision Group at UC Berkeley and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where he directed the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He has also been a visiting professor at Weta Digital, a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm, and a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia and Princeton Universities. Hao’s research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning with a focus on photorealistic human digitization, real-time performance capture, immersive telepresence, and generative video synthesis and manipulation (deepfakes). He is widely recognized for his groundbreaking work in real-time 3D facial tracking, which has led to the technology behind Apple's Animoji, the digital recreation of Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7, and the first real-time deepfake face-swapping technology based on generative AI. His research on facial reenactment has been widely adopted in Hollywood, driving advancements in photorealistic digital doubles and seamless de-aging effects. Additionally, he is known for pioneering production-grade visual dubbing solutions, which have made possible the first fully AI-lip-synced foreign language films and TV shows dubbed into English. Hao and his company, Pinscreen, have earned credits in numerous high-profile motion pictures, including Fallout, Money Heist – Berlin, Slumberland, Free Guy, Blade Runner 2049, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Furious 7, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. His algorithms on deformable shape registration have not only advanced the field of data-driven facial animation and human body modeling, but also improved the radiation treatment for cancer patients all over the world through his collaboration with C-RAD on surface guided radiation therapy. Hao has received numerous accolades, including being named a Top 35 Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2013. he has been awarded the Google Faculty Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant, and the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair. In 2018, he won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, and in 2019, he was named to the DARPA ISAT Study Group. He received the ACM Symposium on Computer Animation Best Paper Award in 2009, the ACM SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! “Best in Show” Award in 2020, and an Epic Megagrant in 2021. Hao has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos (2020) and was featured in the inaugural season of Amazon’s documentary series re:MARS Luminaries in 2022. Hao earned his PhD from ETH Zurich and his MSc from the University of Karlsruhe (TH).
Host: Prof. Stefanos Nikolaidis
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 267
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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Epstein Institute, ISE 651 Seminar Class
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan
Talk Title: Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to the correct solution in the face of many local minima
Host: Dr. Andres Gomez
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Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Casi Jones/ ISE
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Viterbi - MyReaa Information Session
Tue, Jan 21, 2025 @ 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
This event is for Viterbi engineering students only. Non-Viterbi students will not be admitted. Please register through Handshake.
We will be hosting an informative session about MyReaa, our cutting-edge AI platform revolutionizing real estate analytics. In addition to showcasing how AI is transforming the industry, we will discuss the journey of starting a business, share key life experiences, and highlight valuable lessons from both business and AI perspectives. This session will be interactive, offering students a chance to connect with the founder, Shant Samuelian, and the co-founder to gain insights into innovation, entrepreneurship, and career development in the intersection of AI and real estate.
Degree Levels: Bachelors, Masters
Majors: Computer Science, Computer Science/Business Adminstration, Data Science, Analytics, AI in Business
Sponsorship: No
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
Event Link: https://usc.joinhandshake.com/
