Events

At the GDSC at UVA, we are committed to providing our members with opportunities to learn and grow. We host a variety of workshops and speaker events throughout the semester, ranging from technical workshops with Google Recruiters to presentations from world-renowned tech executives.

UVA Solution Challenge Introductory Meeting

Info Session

Februrary 12, 2024

UVA Solution Challenge Introductory Meeting

Kickstarting the UVA Solution Challenge where students will be working in teams to try and solve a critical problem that exists in the local Charlottesville area that relates to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Training an Image Classification Model to Classify Fashion Items using TensorFlow

Technical Workshop

November 15, 2023

Training an Image Classification Model to Classify Fashion Items using TensorFlow

Workshop on November 15, 2023 teaching members about how to create image classification models. Lecture covered the process of Preprocessing images and passing these images to train convolutional networks.

Technical Interview Workshop with Google Engineers

Technical Workshop

October 25, 2023

Technical Interview Workshop with Google Engineers

Google Engineers came to UVA to teach GDSC members about how to prepare for the technical interview process and to provide insight into the interview process at Google.

Utilizing HuggingFace Inference APIs to Conduct Sentiment Analysis on Sentences

Info Session + Technical Workshop

October 18, 2023

Utilizing HuggingFace Inference APIs to Conduct Sentiment Analysis on Sentences

Initial interest meeting for the GDSC on October 18, 2023 where we had a presentation about the club and then used a HuggingFace model to analyze the emotions of reviews that audience members had of the club.