[mlpack] GSoC Project: Collaborative filtering package improvements

[Osho Gupta B.Tech., ECE, IIT-BHU, Varanasi (INDIA)]

Sir,

I am an Undergraduate student of *Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi. "IIT-V"*. I am pursuing my B.Tech. in
Electronics Engineering, currently in the 3rd year.

I have a keen interest in the field of *Machine Learning, Data Mining,
Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval*. Also I have worked
a lot upon fields like NLP, Speech Synthesis-Recognition and Processing,
Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning and Neural Networks. What I
found after working in all these is ML is common to all and suits my
interest.

I have done online course on Machine Learning (by Andrew NG STANFORD) and
various other courses on Image Processing, NLP, and Python. I have done
various projects on Machine Learning including implementation of *Neural
Networks, SVM, CRF, PCA, K-means Clustering, etc* and have deep knowledge
in these fields.
Currently, I am engaged in a research Project over *NLP (Temporal analysis
of Tweets)*, under guidance of *Dr. Judith Gelerenter, Carnegie Mellon
University*, since October 2013 which is soon going to complete and our
work will be made open source after its completion. This project involved
use of machine learning methods like *SVM and CRF for NLP*.
Last summer I did an internship in Korea on *Speech Processing* which
involved *neural networks for Speech recognition.*
Also, I am involved in a project on *Medical Imaging* under Prof. Rajeev
Shrivastava of my home university IIT-V. In this we are improving various
image reconstruction algorithms using *K-Means clustering.*
Also, I am learning *Deep Learning* for my interest. I am efficient coder
in *C, C++, Python, Octave and Matlab*.

I am a self-motivated student and I am very interested in contributing more
and more in field of ML. Now, I want to do some open source contributions
and GSOC is the best platform to do so. I would like to sincerely
contribute to MLPack.

I saw the Ideas list of MLPack and project that caught my eye is:
*>Collaborative filtering package improvements*
Machine learning is core field of my interest and I am good at it. This
seems to be a great project to get hands on experience in ML and will
enable me to contribute to open source. By my past experiences I am trained
to work alone under mentorship, and I will give my 100% sincere efforts in
completing whichever task I am given up. I have some prior experience in
Recommender systems but collaborative filtering is new to me and new things
are always interesting. I am very keen learner when it comes to know new ML
algorithms.

Please help me on how should I proceed for GSoC.
*-Osho Gupta*
* 3rd Year, B.Tech. **,*
* Department of Electronics Engineering,*
* Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University,*
* Varanasi, India*

* Contact no.: +918604221858*
* Email ID: **osho.gupta.ece11 at iitbhu.ac.in <osho.gupta.ece11 at iitbhu.ac.in>*
                 *osh1234 at ieee.org <osh1234 at ieee.org>*
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