Dustin Eby

Role at the UMBC Career Center: Graphic Design, Web Development, Photography, Data Management, Technology

 Q: Where have you earned your college degrees?

A: I got my B.S. in Digital Media from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

Q: What program(s) did you study? How did you choose your major?

A: Growing up I was always drawing, creating, and interested in figuring out how things worked. I took art class every year and two television production classes in high school.
I started my college career wanting to do 3D animation and special effects, but became much more interested in the graphic design and programming aspects of web design and user interface development.

Q: Tell me about the job and internship process when you were in college. Were you able to find job/internship positions that were related to your major or your career interests?

A: Drexel is a co-op school, so everyone had to do co-op to graduate. If your major was a 4-year program (like mine), your sophomore year consisted of 6-months classes and 6-months on co-op work experience, then junior year was a full year of class. I also took an internship position the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, which I found through a friend of my father's. (Networking is key.)

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

A: "Never stop learning."

Since graduating from undergrad, I have kept my skills current by taking classes through UMBC, UMUC, and Teamtreehouse.com and attended D2WC (Designer, Developer and Workflow Conference) and edUi Conference.

Q: Why should students visit the Career Center?

A: I visited my Career Center in college only when I had to in order to get credit for my Co-op, but not when I was graduating and looking for a full-time job. That was a mistake. Looking back and knowing what I know now after having worked in the Career Center at UMBC for years, is that I should have started earlier to look for a post graduation job, and sought advice from the Career Center. I should have learned the art of networking, and learned to research companies coming to the Career Fair before attending.

Q: What is your favorite aspect about UMBC?

A: Coming from a university in a large city, I got the sense that everyone fended for themselves. When I started at UMBC, I was pleasantly surprised by how supportive the students were to each other - from holding doors open for someone, to making sure each other have safe transportation to and from social events, to random students offering to help me when I am outside replacing marketing posters in our poster holders.

And just about everyone I have met that works at UMBC has a real drive and commitment to student success, and the betterment of the University.

Q: What is one item on your bucket list?

A: Visit Hawaii.

Q: What is one aspect of the DC/Baltimore area that you often explore?

A: The various festivals that happen every year: Artscape, Fells Point Fun Festival, Maryland Renaissance Festival (www.rennfest.com), 34th St. Lights, etc.

Want to connect with Dustin or any of our great Career Center team? Call our office at 410-455-2216 or check out our contact us page here: http://careers.umbc.edu/aboutus/

Intern Scientist, Yahoo Labs (Job Number: 1450702)
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Yahoo Labs sets the course for the future. We’re Yahoo’s incubator for bold scientific experimentation. We specialize in deep, creative thought on the company’s hardest technical problems, and hire amazing research scientists and engineers who serve as Yahoo’s most forward-looking thinkers. We stretch the limits of theory, we apply novel ideas in practice, and we experiment. We love challenging problems, we love bleeding-edge technology, and we love data.

Yahoo Labs is one of the most highly collaborative places you’ll ever see. Partnerships abound within our own teams, with all key product teams, and with the international scientific community. We’ll challenge your brain every day, and when you succeed you’ll change the lives of hundreds of millions of people, allowing them to do things they never dreamed they could do. Come join us and use your scientific background to drive Yahoo-scale innovation!

A Little About Us

Yahoo Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the Web. As the center of scientific excellence for Yahoo, Yahoo Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research and new technologies powering the company’s products.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for exceptional PhD student who want to work with us in our intern program for the summer of 2015. We will have openings in the US (New York City, Sunnyvale) and other locations. We seek world-class graduate students in pursuit of a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related area. We are particularly interested in students working on Machine Learning, algorithms, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia, Mobile Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative filtering, auctions, mechanism design, linear algebra, Systems or analysis of large data. Ideal candidates will have finished at least 2 years of graduate work.

Your Day

• Work with scientists to perform original research
• Apply scientific thinking and techniques to improve the performance
  and effectiveness of our products
• Solve problems for our users and advertisers by analyzing mountains
  of data
• Have the opportunity to publish your work and expand the horizons
  of web science

You Must Have

• Currently working on the PhD degree, preferably in Computer
  Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related area.
• Finished at least 2 years of graduate work
• Have some experience in Machine Learning, algorithms, Natural
  Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia,
  Mobile Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative
  filtering, auctions, mechanism, design, linear algebra, systems, or
  analysis of large data Learning, algorithms, Natural Language
  Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia, Mobile
  Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative
  filtering, auctions, mechanism, design, linear algebra, systems, or
  analysis of large data
• A CV with strong recommendations from your graduate advisor

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