Echo

Echo

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Echo episodes

  • Talking with Lecturers: Gernot Heiser

    Subrat and Shane chat to the lecturer of the infamous Advanced Operating Systems course at UNSW, ✨ Gernot Heiser ✨! In an episode packed with brain 🧠 bending topics, they dive into not just lecturing, but also his decorated research career, as Gernot discusses:

    • Being the FIRST team in the world 🌏 to formally prove the security 🔒 of an operating system - seL4
  • How seL4 has been used in autonomous cars 🚗, helicopters 🚁 and iPhones 📱
  • The mistakes made 😞 and lessons learnt 💪 from building a startup

    • Timestamps

    1:00 Getting into Operating Systems

    15:49 Importance of OS
    23:09 Industry vs academia
    29:40 Microkernels and working with Qualcomm
    41:42 Starting OpenKernelLabs
    49:06 Developing and using seL4 - the world’s first formally verified operating system
    1:23:19 Creating and lecturing the Advanced Operating Systems course
    1:35:40 Interests, hobbies, and food
    1:40:30 Reflection on failures and learnings, and advice for students

    1 hr 52 min
  • Pride in Computer Science: LGBTQ+ Roundtable

    To mark the end of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈,  we’ve gathered LGBTQ+ computer scientists and software engineers to celebrate 🥳 and have an unfiltered discussion about what it means to be queer in the computer science field!

    Angeni and Fiona sit down with ✨ Alex Hope (Security Engineer @ Atlassian), ✨ Emma Krantz (Lead Software Engineer @ Data61), ✨ Blake Morris (Student @ UNSW), and ✨ Aaron Quigley (CSE Head of School @ UNSW) to unpack their diverse experiences, and discuss:

    • Coming out and choosing to be out 🌈
  • Navigating both overt hostility and subtle discrimination 🤔
  • What workplaces and universities can do to be inclusive 🤗, and
  • Which video game 🎮 ?? sparked the moment of realisation 🙊

    • AND for the very first time, this podcast is also available as video!! See the video here https://youtu.be/yjhXxX27jd0

     

    Timestamps

    02:30 Computer Science culture and the LGBTQ+ community

    12:57 Coming out
    23:40 Creating change
    52:45 Being out at work and uni
    1:00:45 Dealing with discrimination
    1:20:25 How can people be good allies?
    1:24:25 Advice

    1 hr 32 min
  • Stories from a Stranded International Student w/ Kaiqi Liang

    Ever wondered why you’ve never seen CSESoc’s Arc Delegate in person 🤔?? Kai is one of thousands of international students currently stranded in another country as COVID 🦠 has wrecked all plans of overseas travel ✈️🚫.

    Ryan and Angeni have an honest conversation with Kai about current life as an international student, spilling the tea ☕️ on everything including:

      😔 What it feels like to be away from friends for such a long time,  

      🏫 How he still stays involved with societies and uni culture, and
      🎮 Which online game he never 🙅 wants to play again

    Timestamps

    01:12 How Kai was stranded overseas

    04:14 Life in Australia (before COVID)
    09:36 Life in China now
    15:05 Studying online
    16:51 Being involved in uni societies
    33:02 Internships and interviews online
    39:38 Tutoring online
    49:35 Balancing responsibilities
    55:11 Kai’s final advice

    1 hr
  • Personal Project Showcase w/ Jason Yu

    What does it take to get your personal project to the next level and turn it into a startup?

    Sunny and Rosanna talk to recent Peter Farrell Cup runner-up ✨Jason Yu✨, who has done just that with his startup VidUp AI. He tells us:

    • What technologies he uses to turn text into AI-generated videos,
  • Why it’s so important to keep in close contact with your users, and
  • How COVID actually helped his project come to life!

    • Check out VidUp for yourself here! https://www.vidup.ai/

    Timestamps

    2:16 What is VidUp?

    5:04 Role at the startup
    6:38 Where did the idea come from?
    8:47 How did you get it started?
    18:12 What tools and tech do you use?
    35:28 Advice
    48:53 Future plans

    52 min
  • Personal Project Showcase w/ Alli Murray

    Ever started a massive project only to get stuck, feel intimidated and give up? Can you develop your skills with smaller, less complicated projects instead?

    In this Personal Projects Showcase, Angeni and Julian talk to 2018 CSESoc Co-Pres, ex-Google intern and current Canva graduate Alli Murray. She tells us:

    • Why smaller projects can be more useful than ambitious ones
  • How she uses projects to learn new programming languages and technology 
  • The difference between internship projects and personal projects
  • Why her favourite personal project was a Perl program??

    • Timestamps

    04:30 Why start a personal project?

    10:44 How to approach self-learning
    13:54 A Peer Mentor-Mentee allocation program
    17:53 Internship projects vs personal projects
    23:10 Coming up with ideas
    24:44 Learning at uni vs self-learning
    37:23 Future plans
    39:08 Advice
    41:24 Navigating degree changes

     

    50 min
  • Startups, Pitching and More w/ Beste Onay

    Ever thought about joining a startup? Or even better, founding one of your own?

    Raathan and Joyce ask Beste Onay, UNSW Founders Program Manager, for her tips and tricks on what it takes to turn your idea into a business, craft the perfect pitch, and run a successful startup!

    Timestamps

    00:34 Intro to UNSW Founders

    02:01 Personal experience with Founders
    03:14 What makes a successful startup?
    06:27 What makes a good pitch?
    16:40 Why should students join a startup?
    23:18 Advice for starting a business

    32 min
  • Talking with Lecturers: Hayden Smith

    What goes into lecturing some of CSE's biggest courses? While also co-founding a startup on the side?

    Raathan and Sunny get unprecedented insights from UNSW lecturer Hayden Smith as they get a firsthand account of his journey from high school in rural NSW to leading the record-breaking Sunswift team at uni, and now lecturing while working on his own company!

    0:00:49 Getting into computer programming

    0:07:13 Time at uni
    0:21:30 Working at Microsoft
    0:39:53 Co-founding a startup
    1:13:39 Lecturing at UNSW
    1:52:45 Managing time
    1:55:04 Advice for listeners

    2 hr
  • Personal Project Showcase w/ Selina Chua

    How did Selina help build an augmented reality education app that landed 2nd place at the 2020 CSESoc Hackathon AND come 1st place in her very first hackathon ever?

    Angeni and Julian chat with Selina to answer these questions and more in the latest Personal Projects Showcase! With hackathons being more collaborative than your average personal project, she tells us how she gets stuff done with her team under high pressure situations, learns new concepts in short timeframes, and most importantly - her tips for any students curious to try their own!

    Timestamps

    00:00 Intro
    03:30 CSESoc Hackathon: building an AR education app
    11:27 Building the frontend
    24:30 Managing time in a hackathon
    31:34 Main takeaways from undertaking the project
    33:35 Freelancer Hackathon
    39:37 Advice for students jumping into a hackathon
    42:23 Building skills from each hackathon
    46:10 Future plans!

    51 min
  • How I Hack Tony Abbott and Atlassian w/ Alex Hope

    For this Industry Podcast we’re talking to Alex Hope, a Red Team Security Engineer at Atlassian! Alex had no idea they would go into cybersecurity while at uni, but has gone on to be behind some infamous hacks, including Operation Luigi and finding Tony Abbott’s passport number.

    In this chat, they introduce us to the exciting world of hacking that’s more accessible than you think, as we find out what they do on the job, how they got into the industry (and how you can too!), and what happened after the world found out about the Tony Abbott hack.

    Check out links to Alex's blog on the CSESoc Media website: media.csesoc.org.au/alex-atlassian/

    2:04 - The journey into cyber security

    10:43 - Advice for students wanting to get into cyber security
    13:00 - A tangent about lock-picking
    14:38 - Working in cyber security at Atlassian
    47:46 - Hacking Tony Abbott
    67:17 - Alex's second favourite hack
    69:47 - Wi-Fi hacking
    78:05 - Hacking and blogging about it
    88:32 - Bonus content :)

    1 hr 45 min
  • Talking with Lecturers: Marc Chee

    In this Echo episode Raathan and Sunny sit down with COMP1511 lecturer/Tik Tok celebrity/CSE BNOC Marc Chee! They discuss whether computing and teaching was something Marc always wanted to get into, Marc’s opinions on how CSE has been taught at UNSW has changed over the years, whether COMP courses should have a stronger emphasis on soft skills, whether all CSE students fall into the anti-social geek stereotype, and more!

    Timestamps:

    0:46 Was CSE something you always wanted to get into?
    7:55 Are all CSE students anti-social geeks?
    18:42 Handwriting vs Typing
    27:42 American, Japanese, and European Games
    32:50 Tech Corporations: Making profit vs making the world a better place
    42:03 How different is CSE taught today compared to when you were in uni?
    53:30 Marc gushing over CSE Tutors and general COMP1511 discussion
    77:55 Was teaching something you always wanted to do?
    86:40 Internships
    89:17 Do you think COMP courses should focus more on soft skills?
    100:39 What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?

    1 hr 44 min

About Echo

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Echo is CSESoc’s own weekly podcast where we talk about topics all over the place related to CSE, technology and university life. You can expect us getting live sound bites at our events, picking the…