UCSD COSMOS Cluster 12 - 2023

Taking the elevator up to our afternoon lab. It's been a very busy first week at COSMOS. Students got a "crash" course in Python.  They learned a lot of basics in a short period of time.  Like all things in life, some caught on fairly quickly, others took a bit more to get their footing.  Didn't matter where they fell on the spectrum, our mentors did their best to support and challenge them in their learning. After getting some Python programming basics down, it was on to Machine Learning!  They learned about some supervised and unsupervised learning which included decision trees, k -Nearest Neighbors and k -Means Clustering by the end of Thursday!  It was A LOT, but we get into the core of the cluster pretty quickly so we can do some fun and interesting work. Friday, they'll get their first project in which they'll be able to apply their choice or variety of algorithms learned.  We're excited to see what they come up with.  

Curt Schurgers  Curt Schurgers received his Ph.D. from UCLA in integrated circuits and systems, and his MS in EE from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (KUL). Before coming to UCSD in 2002, he was a postdoctural associate at MIT. He has also held a research position at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium. From 2004 until 2010, he was an Assistant Professor in the UCSD ECE Department, leading the Wireless Information Systems Lab. In 2010, he became a Development Engineer at the UCSD Qualcomm Institute, supervising the Prototyping Lab. Since July 2017, he has been a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.  In addition to teaching introductory engineering and programming classes and developing new pedagogy for them, he is also a co-Director of the Engineers for Exploration program. In this program, undergraduate students build new tools for ecologists, archaeologists and explorers, and then assist them in ...

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