CS Seminars are hosted by the Boise State University Computer Science department. The seminars are open to all students.
Seminar speakers hold various industry and university positions. They love to share their experience and passion with Boise State students.
Historical CS Seminars table. Use the search field to filter table content.| Date | Semester | Presenter, (Title) | Organization | Title |
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| 2023/04/14 | Sp' 23 | Trevor Spielman | What it takes to be a successful Engineer after Graduation |
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| 2023/04/07 | Sp'23 | Jon Herke | TigerGraph | Recommender Systems |
| 2023/03/31 | Sp'23 | Jerry Fails | Boise State University | What is grad school? Should I consider going? |
| 2023/03/17 | Sp'23 | John Brooks | Visual Concepts Entertainment | |
| 2023/03/10 | Sp'23 | Bas Neto | PreFab Logic | |
| 2023/03/03 | Sp'23 | Clay Barks | Micron | Curiosity and How It Can Advance Your Career |
| 2023/02/24 | Sp'23 | Ryan Watson | HireVue | DevOps and SRE current practices |
| 2023/02/17 | Sp'23 | Todd Fletcher | Crowdstrike | Cyberpsychology |
| 2023/02/10 | Sp'23 | Taso Kinnas | AFR | Microsoft ERP Development - C/AL |
| 2023/02/03 | Sp'23 | Kristin Jackvony | Paylocity | What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care |
| 2023/01/27 | Sp'23 | Jeremy Morris | Tovuti | Creating Web-Based Games to Increase User Engagement |
| 2023/01/20 | Sp'23 | Keith Smith | Snowflake | Driving Dashboard Adoption Through Better Data Visualization and Design |
| 2022/12/02 | Fa'22 | Ryan Watson, Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Hirevue | DevOps & SRE Current Practices |
| 2022/11/11 | Fa'22 | Jonathan Wagner | Directus | Open Data Platform |
| 2022/11/04 | Fa'22 | Trevor Spielman | InTime Tec | What it Takes to be a Successful Engineer After Graduation |
| 2022/10/21 | Fa'22 | Clay Barks | Micron | Curiosity and How it can Advance your Career |
| 2022/10/14 | Fa'22 | Kochava | A Crash Course on Cloud Computing | |
| 2022/10/07 | Fa'22 | McKenzie Steenson | TigerGraph | Bridging the Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Emerging Communities |
| 2022/09/30 | Fa'22 | Dr. Jerry Fails | Boise State Computer Science | What is grad school? Should I consider going? |
| 2022/09/23 | Fa'22 | Kristin Jackvony | Paylocity | What is Software Testing, and Why Should you Care? |
| 2022/09/16 | Fa'22 | Keith Smith | Snowflake | Driving Dashboard Adoption Through Better Data Visualization and Design |
| 2022/09/02 | Fa'22 | Dr. Amit Jain | Boise State Computer Science | Jobs, Careers, and Culture |
| 2022/04/15 | Sp'22 | Michael Krause | Tovuti | Online Learning Innovation |
| 2022/04/08 | Sp'22 | Trevor Spielman | InTimeTec | What you need to know to be successful as a software engineer after graduation |
| 2022/04/01 | Sp'22 | Brian Eccles | IBM | Quantum Computing |
| 2022/03/18 | Sp'22 | Mark Wunsch | Kochava | A Crash Course on Cloud Computing |
| 2022/03/11 | Sp'22 | Kristin Jackvony | Paylocity | What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care? |
| 2022/03/04 | Sp'22 | Jerry Fails, Associate Professor | Boise State Computer Science | What is grad school? Should I consider going? |
| 2022/02/25 | Sp'22 | Clay Barks | Micron | Curiosity and how it can advance your career |
| 2022/02/18 | Sp'22 | Steve Cutchin, Associate Professor | Boise State Computer Science | OpenPipe: A federated solution for shared digital art curation |
| 2022/02/11 | Sp'22 | Amit Jain, CS Dept Chair and Professor | Boise State Computer Science | Jobs, Careers, and Culture |
| 2022/02/04 | Sp'22 | Keith Smith | Snowflake | Curious, Methodical, Analytical - Helping Companies Succeed in the Data Cloud |
| 2022/01/21 | Sp'22 | Abby Fereday | Athlos | A Rapid-growth, Boise-based EdTech Startup |
| 2022/01/14 | Sp'22 | Gerry Ens | GoWest Robotics | Modern Software Development for Industrial Robotics |
| 2021/12/10 | Fa'21 | Michael Krause | Tovuti | Online Learning Innovation |
| 2021/11/19 | Fa'21 | Jeremiah Grossman | Whitehat Security | The Real Reasons All Companies Still Get Hacked |
| 2021/11/12 | Fa'21 | Mark Wunsch | Kochava | A Crash Course on Cloud Computing |
| 2021/10/29 | Fa'21 | Jedidiah Smith | Curbnturf Inc. | Microservices vs. the Monolith |
| 2021/10/22 | Fa'21 | Clay Barks | Micron Technology Inc. | Curiosity and How it Can Advance Your Career |
| 2021/10/15 | Fa'21 | Trevor Spielman | InTimeTec | What you need to know to be successful as a software engineer after graduation |
| 2021/10/08 | Fa'21 | Steve Cutchin, Associate Professor | Boise State Computer Science | OpenPipe: A federated solution for shared digital art curation |
| 2021/10/01 | Fa'21 | Kristin Jackvony | Paylocity | What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care? |
| 2021/09/24 | Fa'21 | Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor | Boise State Computer Science | What is grad school? Should I consider going? |
| 2021/09/17 | Fa'21 | Keith Smith | Snowflake, Inc. | Curious, Methodical, Analytical... Helping companies succeed in the Data Cloud |
| 2021/09/03 | Fa'21 | Amit Jain, Chair and Professor | Boise State Computer Science | Jobs, Careers, and Culture |
| 2021/04/30 | Sp'21 | Trevor Spielman | In Time Tec | How to be a Successful Software Developer after Graduation |
| 2021/04/09 | Sp'21 | Casey Kennington, Assistant Professor | Boise State Computer Science | Understanding Understanding |
| 2021/03/31 | Sp'21 | Caleb Cook | Paylocity | Writing Code for Other Developers (and General Career-Starting Advice) |
| 2021/03/25 | Sp'21 | Geetanjali Srivastava | Micron | Visualization Culture: Art and Science of Data |
| 2021/03/17 | Sp'21 | Ariel Marvasti | Clearwater Analytics | A Brief Introduction to Test Contravariance and a Demo of Test Containers |
| 2021/03/12 | Sp'21 | Vincent Martino | VisitPay | |
| 2021/03/03 | Sp'21 | Mark Wunsch | Kochava | A Crash Course in Cloud Technologies |
| 2021/02/24 | Sp'21 | Kristin Jackvony | Paylocity | What is Software Testing, and Why Should You Care? |
| 2021/02/19 | Sp'21 | Katie Coil | Clearwater Analytics | Practical Machine Learning for Software Developers |
| 2021/02/10 | Sp'21 | Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor | Boise State Computer Science | What is grad school? Should I consider going? |
| 2021/01/22 | Sp'21 | Amit Jain, Dept Chair & Professor | Boise State Computer Science | Jobs, Careers, and Culture |
| 2020/12/11 | Fa'20 | Rob Tuft and Trevor Spielman | In Tim Tec | What I Need to Know to be a Successful Software Engineer |
| 2020/12/03 | Fa'20 | Matthew Harris, Intuit | Intuit | Coding for Innovation - Applying Design Thinking Principles to Software Engineering |
| 2020/11/19 | Fa'20 | Alecia Murray, Senior Director of Digital Products | Lovevery | Software Development for D2C |
| 2020/05/01 | Sp'20 | Stephanie Labastida (BSU CS alumni) | Paylocity | Fresh (ish) Out of Your Shoes - Advice and Lessons Learned |
| 2020/04/24 | Sp'20 | Ryan Miller | Jelli | How to Apply to Tech Jobs During a Pandemic |
| 2020/04/17 | Sp'20 | Alecia Murray, Senior Director of Digital Products | Lovevery | eCommerce and my journey to Lovevery |
| 2020/04/10 | Sp'20 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 2020/04/03 | Sp'20 | Craig Hecock | Clearwater Analytics | Random Things to Think About as Developers |
| 2020/03/20 | Sp'20 | Cancelled | ||
| 2020/03/13 | Sp'20 | Dr. Alark Joshi | University of San Francisco | |
| 2020/03/06 | Sp'20 | Caleb Cook, Associate Software Engineer in New College Graduate program | Paylocity | Functional programming – what it is and how you use it? |
| 2020/02/28 | Sp'20 | Jillian Bentley, Director HR & Recruiting | Kochava | Data Lifecycle Management in the Cloud |
| 2020/02/21 | Sp'20 | Nate Monnig, Senior Data Scientist | Kount | How to Stop Bad Guys with Computers? Data Science and Machine Learning for Real-Time Fraud Prevention |
| 2020/02/14 | Sp'20 | Jerry Alan Fails, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator | CS department at BSU | What is Grad School? |
| 2020/01/31 | Sp'20 | Rob Tuft, VP of Client Delivery | In Time Tec | What I Need to Know to be a Successful Software Engineer |
| 2020/01/24 | Sp'20 | Sarah L. Hoffmann, Richie A. Carmichael, Chris Beasley | Biomark | Machine Learning for Fishes |
| 2019/12/06 | Fa'19 | Doug Hamilton | Clearwater Analytics | Building Reactive 3D Web Applications with ClojureScript |
| 2019/11/22 | Fa'19 | Robert Hillier, CIO | Idaho National Laboratory | An Overview of Idaho National Lab and Career Opportunities within |
| 2019/11/19 | Fa'19 | Professor Char Sample, Chief Cybersecurity Research Scientist for the Cybercore division | Idaho National Laboratory | Culture and Cyber: Insights Gained Through Interdisciplinary Research |
| 2019/11/15 | Fa'19 | Daniel Avery, Software Engineer | Clearwater Analytics | Deriving a Streaming ETL |
| 2019/11/08 | Fa'19 | Mark Wunsch, Lead Software Engineer | Kochava | Kick-starting your career as a software engineer |
| 2019/11/01 | Fa'19 | Warren Rutledge, Sr Manager, IT Database Operations | Micron | Large Scale Databases |
| 2019/10/25 | Fa'19 | Rachael Zahn, Cyber Security Analyst | Micron | What is Cyber Security. What you can expect in Cyber. A day in the life of Micron Cyber. |
| 2019/10/18 | Fa'19 | Katy Kahla, Product Development Manager | Intuit, Boise | Design For Delight: How Intuit Builds Products |
| 2019/10/11 | Fa'19 | Dan DeCloss, CEO | PlexTrac | Go Hack Yourself! |
| 2019/10/04 | Fa'19 | John Koudelka, Team Lead for Complex Systems Visualization | Idaho National Laboratory | Promoting collaboration: An overview of INL and CAES Computing Capabilities |
| 2019/09/20 | Fa'19 | Steve Jerman | Kloudspot | Getting Value from Network Analytics |
| 2019/05/03 | Sp'19 | Ayrton Stout | AppDetex | The Adventures of Building a Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator in Rust |
| 2019/03/15 | Sp'19 | Josh Johnston, Director of AI | Kount | Genuine Lessons from Artificial Intelligence |
| 2019/03/08 | Sp'19 | Mark Wunsch | Kochava | Disrupting the advertising ecosystem |
| 2019/03/01 | Sp'19 | Gaby Dagher, CS Department | Boise State University | Intro to Blockchain |
| 2019/02/22 | Sp'19 | Justin Morken, Senior Product Designer | TSheets (Intuit) | Persuasive UX |
| 2019/02/015 | Sp'19 | Mike Moser, Software Engineer | Paylocity | Exploring Docker Containers |
| 2019/02/08 | Sp'19 | Eric Argo, QA Manager | Kount | Open, Honest, Fearless: Kount SDETs |
| 2019/02/01 | Sp'19 | Carl Fee, Software Engineer | Clearwater Analytics | About a Sub Processor in Bane |
| 2019/01/25 | Sp'19 | Chris Geiser, CTO | Garrigan Lyman Group | Seeing the full Stack across Core IT and Fast IT |
| 2018/12/07 | Fa'18 | Justin Mack Nevena Dragovic Barry Zechmann | MarkMonitor | Protecting brands in the digital world: Technical and business problems solved by MarkMonitor |
| 2018/11/30 | Fa'18 | Tim Ramey, Director of Engineering | Relias | Masking poor performance and calling it a feature |
| 2018/11/28 | Fa'18 | Dennis Gammel, R&D Director | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories | Control Systems Cybersecurity and Software Defined Networking |
| 2018/11/16 | Fa'18 | Gregg Nicholas, Team Leader | Clearwater Analytics | Practical Usage of Actors in an Asynchronous Distributed System |
| 2018/11/13 | Fa'18 | Gerard Ens, Founder and CTO | Go West Robotics | How do you break a robot? Testing autonomous robots |
| 2018/11/09 | Fa'18 | Dr. Gaby Dagher, CS Department | Boise State University | Overview of Research Activities in Information Security, Privacy & Mining (ISPM) Research Lab |
| 2018/11/02 | Fa'18 | David Montz, Chief Technology Officer | AppDetex | Brand protection and securing your digital footprint |
| 2018/10/12 | Fa'18 | Thomas May, software engineer | Clearwater Analytics | Making Software Fast |
| 2018/10/05 | Fa'18 | Dr. Anton Wiranata, Principle Data Scientist | Hewlett-Packard | Artificial intelligence application in industry |
| 2018/09/28 | Fa'18 | Dr. Casey Kennington, CS Department | Boise State University | What is Graduate School and What Does it Have to Do With Me and How Might it Change my Life and Does Anything Actually Matter? |
| 2018/09/21 | Fa'18 | Dr. David L. Millman, assistant professor | Montana State University | Applications of Computational Topology and Geometry |
| 2018/09/14 | Fa'18 | Ryan Vasso, Associate Director, BSU Venture College | Boise State University | Entrepreneurship, starting your own company, and what the VC can do to support you |
| 2018/09/07 | Fa'18 | Kelly Honeycutt | Clearwater Analytics | Through the Clearwater Pipeline |
| 2018/08/31 | Fa'18 | Shane Panter, CS Department | Boise State University | COM Automation - Driving legacy apps |
| 2018/04/27 | Sp'18 | Chris Campbell, Expert Software Engineer | Hewlett-Packard | Why Docker Matters |
| 2018/04/13 | Sp'18 | David Barret, CEO and Founder | Expensify | Startups, Silicon Valley, and Succeeding at Life: Ask a VC-Backed CEO Anything |
| 2018/04/06 | Sp'18 | Josh Johnston, AI Science Manager | Kount | Fighting Fraud with Artificial Intelligence |
| 2018/03/16 | Sp'18 | Zach Townsend, HR Manager | Verified First | Building a Tech Start-Up on a Budget |
| 2018/03/09 | Sp'18 | Sandy Dunn, Chief Information Security Officer | Blue Cross of Idaho | Skills and Careers in Cybersecurity (we need more than hackers with leet skilz) |
| 2018/03/02 | Sp'18 | Dr. Michael Eckstrand, CS Department | Boise State University | Making Information Systems Good for People |
| 2018/02/23 | Sp'18 | Mark Bastian, senior software developer | Clearwater Analytics | Interactive Development with Reloadable Code |
| 2018/02/16 | Sp'18 | Rob Tuft, vice president of client delivery | InTimeTec | What I Need to Know to be Successful After I Graduate as a Software Engineer |
| 2018/02/02 | Sp'18 | Shane Panter, CS Department | Boise State University | COM Automation - Driving legacy apps |
| 2018/01/26 | Sp'18 | James Penick, Senior Software Engineer | Cradlepoint | Mastering the Technical Interview |
| 2018/01/18 | Sp'18 | Isaac Howard, QA Manager | Kount | Using the Force: The Power of Testing in a Software Development organization |
| 2017/12/08 | Fa'17 | Dr. Yantian Hou, CS Department | Boise State University | Interference mitigation in multi-hop wireless networks with advanced physical layer techniques |
| 2017/12/01 | Fa'17 | Dr. Hoda Mehrpouyan, CS Department | Boise State University | Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems |
| 2017/11/17 | Fa'17 | Nate McIntrye | TSheets | ComputerScience++; |
| 2017/11/10 | Fa'17 | David Romeo | Allata | De-CRUDing Apps with Event Sourcing |
| 2017/11/03 | Fa'17 | John Salvie | Allata | Angular in 2017 – Modern Trends in the ngLandscape |
| 2017/10/27 | Fa'17 | Mike Jones Jerry Fails | BYU BSU-CS Dept | Why consider grad school? |
| 2017/10/20 | Fa'17 | Josh Johnston, AI Science Manager | Kount | Fighting Fraud with Artificial Intelligence |
| 2017/10/13 | Fa'17 | Robert Whiting | Clearwater Analytics | Cold, alone, and afraid with Adobe InDesign |
| 2017/09/22 | Fa'17 | Seth Samuels, VP of R&D Eric Mann – Director of Product Engineering | Kochava | Disrupting the Advertising Ecosystem with Real-Time Systems |
| 2017/09/14 | Fa'17 | Axel Magnuson, Software Engineer | Preparing for Technical Interviews | |
| 2017/09/01 | Fa'17 | Dr. Casey Kennington, CS Department | Boise State University | Advancements and Challenges in Speech-centric Systems |
| 2017/03/10 | Sp'17 | Suresh Venkatasubramanian | University of Utah | Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making |
| 2017/03/03 | Sp'17 | Ted Thetford, Principal Product Manager | Amazon | Amazon Recommendations: Who/what is behind the curtain? |
| 2017/02/10 | Sp'17 | Angel Viña, CEO and President | Denodo Technologies | Harnessing Data Virtualization for Data Management and High Performance Data Delivery with Hybrid Data Infrastructure |
| 2017/02/07 | Sp'17 | Mike Ritthaler, Senior Software Engineer | Clearwater Analytics | Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for fun and profit |
| 2017/02/07 | Sp'17 | Dr. Joseph A. Konstan, Distinguished McKnight University Professor | University of Minnesota | Recommender Systems: Beyond Machine Learning |
| 2017/02/03 | Sp'17 | Seth Samuels, VP of R&D | Kochava | Kochava: Who we are, what we do and why it is working |
| 2017/01/27 | Sp'17 | Presented by a team of developers | AppDetex | The life of a software developer |
| 2015/10/09 | Fa'15 | Chris “Whitey” Geiser | Garrigan Lyman Group (GLG) | Architecting for Scale and Security - Performance Matters |
| 2014/12/12 | Fa'14 | Ben Noland, Software Developer | Clearwater Analytics | Building a Software Product While Working Full-time |
| 2014/11/21 | Fa'14 | C. Mark Maupin, assistant professor | Colorado School of Mines | Molecular-level Insights through Computations |
| 2014/11/07 | Fa'14 | Kyle Wheeler, Senior Advanced Memory Software Architect | Micron Technology | Lightweight Multi-Threading |
| 2014/10/24 | Fa'14 | Mark Shaw, Senior Color and Imaging Architect | Hewlett-Packard | Color and Imaging Science in Embedded Systems |
| 2014/10/17 | Fa'14 | Josef Wagner, Senior Software Developer | MWI Veterinary Supply, Inc. | Real Usage of Azure Cloud Database |
| 2014/10/10 | Fa'14 | Russ Whitney, Co-Founder and CEO | IdeaRoom Technologies, Inc. | How to do Real Time 3D in a Web Browser |
| 2014/09/26 | Fa'14 | Faisal Shah, Founder and CEO | AppDetex | Starting Companies in the Legal Space |
| 2014/09/19 | Fa'14 | James Price, Director of Product Development | Clearwater Analytics | NoSQL approach in SQL databases |
| 2014/03/07 | Sp'14 | Clay Barks Diane Emberton David Wicks | Micron Technology | Manufacturing and Infrastructure, developing for internal customers |
| 2014/02/28 | Sp'14 | Tim Ramey, R&D Manager | WhiteCloud Analytics | Data in the real world: sharing for high availability |
| 2014/02/21 | Sp'14 | Todd Weible, CFO and CIO | Impact Sales | Industry Specialization and the Art of Language Translation |