What's next
From PhD to National Lab
What a research career at a national laboratory looks like, how it differs from academia and industry, and how to get there from a PhD — the follow-up to this fall's postdoc talk.
Bowling Night with GPSGA
CS-GSA is planning a bowling night with co-sponsorship from GPSGA, the Graduate & Professional Student Government Association — and we need your help choosing a date and time that works for as many people as possible. Enter your name on the WhenIsGood poll and select every date and time you are available.
Connected. Supported. Professionally prepared.
The Computer Science Graduate Student Association (CS-GSA) is the official representative body for CS graduate students at Oklahoma State University. We exist to build a connected, supported, and professionally prepared graduate community — fostering collaboration among students, advocating for their interests within the department, and raising awareness of what computer science makes possible on campus and beyond.
Each year we run the New Graduate Student Orientation, networking lunches with faculty and peers, research talks and professional development workshops, and social events to help you recharge. We also pass along department announcements and funding and travel opportunities for the graduate community — so nothing worth applying to slips past you.
What we run each year
New Grad Orientation
Your first stop each fall: meet the department, the people, and the paperwork — all in one morning.
Networking Lunches
Food and unhurried conversation with faculty and fellow grad students across the program.
Talks & Workshops
Research talks and professional development sessions to sharpen the work and the career behind it.
Social Events
Step away from the terminal. Social events built to help you reset before the next deadline.
Funding & Announcements
Department news plus funding and travel opportunities, relayed to the grad community as they open.
What we've done so far
Fri · Aug 14 · 203W MSCS
Fall 2026 Grad Orientation + HPCC talk
New CS grads met the department, the officers and each other, then the High Performance Computing Center introduced Pete and Cimarron, OSU's free-to-use supercomputers: getting an account, logging in, writing an sbatch file, picking a queue, and where your data should live (/scratch, not /home).
HPCC slides ↓ Get an HPCC account ↗Fall 2026
ACM × CSGSA
A joint event with the OSU ACM student chapter — two CS orgs, one room.
Fridays · every other week
Biweekly Meeting & Donuts Friday ×2
Short CS-GSA updates, project showcases from master's and PhD students, tips for life after the undergrad degree, and donuts. Meeting #2 was Fri, Oct 16, 10–11 AM in 203W MSCS; the next date goes out on WhatsApp.
Fall 2026
CSGSA × Philosophy Club: Should AI be in the classroom?
A joint session with the OSU Philosophy Club on whether, and how, AI belongs in the classroom — the people who build it and the people who question it, at the same table.
Fall 2026 · 203W MSCS
Navigating the Path from PhD to Postdoc
Dr. Sujay Yadalam (postdoc, UT Austin; PhD, UW–Madison) joined us virtually to talk about what a postdoc actually does, how positions really get filled, a 12-month timeline, and the questions to ask before you say yes. The key idea: a postdoc is a bridge to your next role.
Slides ↓ Speaker's site ↗Advocacy · in progress
Travel funding proposal & the case for a stipend increase
Two asks on behalf of every CS grad student. We submitted a travel-funding allocation proposal for CS-GSA, and we requested and submitted a comparative evidence document making the case for a graduate stipend increase — a pressing issue the department has now forwarded to the Graduate College. We'll report back as both move.
Photos, straight from Instagram
Leadership Team
Useful Documents
CS-GSA Constitution
The rules we run on — our purpose, officers and their duties, membership, meetings, elections, and how it all gets amended.
Open document ↗Student Handbook 2026–27
The grad-life field guide for OSU CS — arrival, housing, banking, transit, campus life, and every phone number you'll want saved. By grad students, for grad students.
Open document ↗HPCC Orientation Slides
Pete, Cimarron and SLURM for newcomers: requesting an account, logging in, /home vs /scratch, the anatomy of an sbatch file, queues and walltimes, modules, Globus transfers, and what to include when you email hpcc@okstate.edu for help.
Download slides ↗PhD → Postdoc Talk Slides
Dr. Sujay Yadalam's deck from his CS-GSA talk: what a postdoc does, where positions come from, a 12-month timeline, what goes into an application, the interview, the questions to ask them, and how to choose the right position.
Download slides ↗Open to every CS grad student.
Membership is free of fuss — just tap the Join button at the top of this page. Day-to-day chatter, questions, and reminders live in the WhatsApp group.
