Professional Development and Industry Connections
We hold professional development info sessions throughout the year for CL MS students, focusing on a wide range of practical skills and information. This includes everything from resume workshops, practice interviews, detailed information on navigating the job search and negotiating offers, and much more. We also offer individual industry career advising, for those planning industry work after graduating, with a dedicated career advisor.
We have a wide network of industry connections as well as an extensive alumni network which are all a great help to CL MS students in beginning or furthering their industry career.
CL/NLP Industry Receptions
In this context, the Brandeis Computational Linguistics program has held CL/NLP Industry Receptions every semester since 2013. These receptions are informal meet and greet events in which technical representatives from companies and organizations in industry and the non-profit sector have the opportunity to meet with students, discuss what their group does, hear about the students' backgrounds, and collect resumes from those looking for internships and full-time jobs.
Brandeis CL Master’s and CL-specialized CS PhD program alumni are often among the representatives who attend, and we typically have 10-15 different companies and organizations attend each term, over one to two reception events. The receptions are a major resource for internship positions during school and full-time jobs after graduation, and a great way for students to make industry connections.
Past company and organization attendees have included representatives from Amazon, Adobe, Apple, Avoke, BBN Technologies, Babel Street (previously Basis Technologies), Burning Glass, Callminer, Cobalt Speech and Language, Fidelity, ISI, Interactions, Jibo, Linguamatics, Lionbridge, Mass Mutual, Microsoft Research, MIT Lincoln Labs, MITRE, Nuance, Optum, Philips Research, Pryon, Rakuten, eviCore (previously QPID Health), RAMP, SAP, Semantic Machines, SIFT, Spotify, Talkler, Tibco, UFA, Verizon, and VocalID.
Our Fall 2024 reception included the following companies and organizations:
- Babel Street
- BBN Technologies
- CallMiner
- Charles River Analytics
- Fidelity
- Mango Languages
- MITRE
- Poly AI
- Pryon
- SIFT
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Data Science
- Walmart Advanced Systems and Robotics
Our Spring 2024 receptions included the following companies and organizations:
- Babel Street
- BBN Technologies
- Boston Children’s Hospital
- Comcast
- Dictionary.com
- eBay
- Five9
- Lockheed Martin
- Meta
- Nivi
- OptumInsight
- ProSearch
- Pryon
- Starbucks
- UMass Amherst Center for Data Science
- WHOOP