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Introduction to Shogun team members #2533

Closed karlnapf closed 10 years ago

karlnapf commented 10 years ago

I think it would be good to have a little profile for each of our team members on the contact page. http://shogun-toolbox.org/page/about/ourteam

This is very important if we apply to grants, people getting back to us, etc. It will also be nice for people to have some faces. Finally, this is very good for us all: Documented open-source contributions, which is super helpful for for job applications.

Something about

I think it would be good to have this before the release. I suggest every core developer writes a little paragraph about himself in this thread, and then we also need a profile picture (if you are fine with putting this online)

@vigsterkr @lisitsyn @besser82 @sonney2k @iglesias @lambday @pickle27 (and who I forgot) Let me know your thoughts, and if you agree, write a little paragraph.

Where should we put this? I think it would be good to just have a list on the website and then either a separate page for each person, or even a link to the wiki?

karlnapf commented 10 years ago

Contact

Email: heiko.stratmann@gmail.com Website: http://www.herrstrathmann.de irc: HeikoS

Personal

Occupation: PhD student at Gatsby Computional Neuroscience Unit, UCL Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Statistics, Neuroscience, Open-Source Software, Coffee Climbing, Jazz, Maths

Shogun

Heiko initially got involved in Shogun by using it for his undergraduate thesis, and then later as a student in GSoC 2011 and GSoC 2012. From initial mostly code contributions, he then transitioned into organising the project as well as mentoring/admin work for GSoC (2013, 2014). Heiko now mostly thinks about where Shogun move next, presents it at and organises workshops, and reviews code of GSoC students. Along with Sören, he is also voted head of the Shogun foundation.

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kevinhughes27 commented 10 years ago

I also think this is a cool idea!

email: kevinhughes27@gmail.com website: http://www.kevinhughes.ca irc: pickle27

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Heiko Strathmann notifications@github.com wrote:

Contact

Email: heiko.stratmann@gmail.com Website: http://www.herrstrathmann.de irc: HeikoS

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/issues/2533#issuecomment-53163522 .

iglesias commented 10 years ago

Contact

Email: fernando.iglesiasg@gmail.com irc: iglesiasg

Personal

Occupation: Marie Curie research fellow at Thales Nederland and PhD student at the University of Twente, associated with the faculty of EEMCS. Research interests: statistical signal processing and information fusion. Mainly, the application of Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods to target tracking. Other interests: machine learning in education and open source, the amazing evolution of robotics, competitive programming as a tool to improve problem solving skills, fitness, travel, and video games.

Shogun

Fernando got involved in Shogun back at the beginning of 2012 with the goal of becoming a GSoC student, which he did, starting Shogun's framework for structured output learning under the supervision of Nico Görnitz and Georg Zeller.

At the end of 2012 and during the first half of 2013, Fernando used Shogun for his undergraduate thesis work on structured output learning applied to label sequence learning and learning of general structured output models (aka graphs). The latter part was the precursor of GSoC 2013 project developed by @hushell and mentored by Patrick Pletscher.

During the summer of 2013, Fernando implemented in Shogun the metric learning algorithm known as Large Margin Nearest Neighbours (LMNN) and applied it to a metagenomics data set. This work was performed under the supervision of Georg Zeller.

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lisitsyn commented 10 years ago

Contact

Email: lisitsyn.s.o@gmail.com irc: lisitsyn

Personal

Occupation: Software engineer at Yandex in Moscow, Russia. Interests: machine learning applied to real problems, beautiful code and building tools and libraries

Shogun

I've been involved with Shogun since GSoC 2011 with the next stop at GSoC 2012 and consequent two years being a mentor. As a student I've been working on dimensionality reduction and multitask learning with the help of Christian Widmer. Since 2013 I am helping to mentor various GSoC projects of Shogun.

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lambday commented 10 years ago

Contact

Email: heavensdevil6909@gmail.com irc: lambday

Personal

Occupation: Software engineer at Oracle in Bangalore, India. Interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Kernel Methods, C++ Design Problems, Algorithms,Sci-Fi Films, Comics, Rock and Trance Music.

Shogun

I came in touch with Shogun since January 2013 through one course project. I became more involved during my participation in GSoC 2013 and 2014, both years with Heiko as my Shogun mentor. I worked on the log-determinant estimation module for large sparse matrices, statistical hypothesis testing module and feature selection framework. I also wrote the initial design and components in the linalg library for shogun.

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karlnapf commented 10 years ago

I'm closing this as its moved to https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/wiki/Developer_profiles

Please populate your own profile.

@iglesias @pickle27 could we produce a view to the main website from this wiki page?