Career Development Resources

Put Your Best Foot Forward

Landing an internship, fellowship, or mentorship opportunity is an integral part of the higher education experience. Computing & Data Sciences is dedicated to providing our students with the information, resources, and mentors needed to succeed in the classroom and in the boardroom.

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Job Hunting as a New Grad: What You Need to Know

In the midst of a changing job market, BU career professionals share tips for getting a leg up on your search.

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Student Internships & Experiences

Program Spotlight

The Data Days for Good mentorship program represents an ongoing collaboration between MassMutual and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University. For the third consecutive year (2024-25), CDS data science students and other majors teamed up with MassMutual’s data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers for an intensive, four-day on-site mentorship experience. During this program, students and MassMutual professionals collaborated on data-focused projects for nonprofit and civic tech partners in the Greater Boston area. Read more.

Lectures & Seminars

TechTalk: Entry-Level in the Age of AI: Who Gets Hired, and Who Checks the Work?

Day: Wednesday Nov 11th Time: 6:00pm - 7:15pm Spark! Space
Lectures & Seminars

PhD Seminar Series: Bilinear Thompson Sampling in Sequential Decision Making with Yuke Zhang

Day: Friday Nov 13th Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDS 1646
Lectures & Seminars

Quantitative Biology Seminar Series - Towards Biological Digital Twins: Decoding Spatial Gene Regulation Across Scales

Day: Thursday Nov 19th Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDS 1646
Lectures & Seminars

PhD Seminar Series: Cybersecurity for Immigrant Rights Organizations with Tyler Calabrese and Data Assimilation Under Environmental Disturbance with Jacob Epstein

Day: Friday Nov 20th Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDS 1646
Lectures & Seminars

Whose AI Order? AI Adoption in a Fragmented World

Day: Monday Nov 23rd Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm 610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston (RKC 101)
Lectures & Seminars

Social Credit System and the Politics of Quantification in China - Social Justice for Data Science

Day: Monday Nov 30th Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm CDS 1646

CDS Research Spotlight Hour

Day: Tuesday Dec 1st Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm CDS 950
Lectures & Seminars

Quantitative Biology Seminar Series - When Regulators Become Mutagens: Transcription Factor-Induced Mutagenesis

Day: Thursday Dec 3rd Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm CDS 1646