[mlpack] We have accepted 6 projects for Google Summer of Code 2018!

[Marcus Edel]

Congratulations to all accepted students, excited to work with all of you over
the summer.

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 23. Apr 2018, at 21:02, Ryan Curtin <ryan at ratml.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am excited to announce that this year, we have selected six students
> to participate in Google Summer of Code for mlpack.  This year we had
> over 100 applications, many of which were high quality.  Unfortunately,
> this means we were not able to accept all of the projects that we would
> have liked to.  In many cases, we received multiple very competitive
> applications for a single project, and were forced to choose only one.
> There were not enough mentors to mentor all of the projects, so only a
> subset of projects were chosen.
> 
> Below is the list of projects that will participate:
> 
>  Manish Kumar: "LMNN (via LRSDP) & BoostMetric Implementation",
>    mentored by me
> 
>  Wenhao Huang: "Alternatives to Neighborhood-Based Collaborative
>    Filtering", mentored by Mikhail Lozhnikov
> 
>  Yasmine Dumouchel: "Automated Java Binding Generator", co-mentored by
>    Kevin Avignon and me
> 
>  Shikhar Jaiswal: "Implementing Essential Deep Learning Modules",
>    mentored by Marcus Edel
> 
>  Atharva Khandait: "Variational Autoencoders", mentored by Sumedh
>    Ghaisas
> 
>  Haritha Sreedharan Nair: "Neural Collaborative Filtering", mentored by
>    Marcus Edel
> 
> Next is the 'community bonding' period, until the middle of May.  This
> is the time during which students can get to know people involved with
> mlpack, and become more knowledgeable about the library itself.  So,
> feel free to send a hello if you like, or pop into IRC or whatever.
> 
> You can find more information about each of the projects on Google's
> website:
> 
>  https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4841692297953280/#projects
> 
> Congratulations to all accepted students!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Curtin    | "So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular
> ryan at ratml.org | chickens?" - Henry Spencer
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