2021: Dhananjay, Dmitry, Isabella, & Jose

Students

• Dhananjay Purohit / Improve site architecture and add features to the Orcamap

  • Blog posts
    • Centralized notification system for listeners with different needs
    • 7 weeks of implementing notification pipeline
    • My experience as a Google Summer of Code student with Orcasound
  • Technical documentation (wiki page)
  • Primary mentors: Paul Cretu, Val Veirs, Scott Veirs, Kunal Mehta

• Dmitry Volodin / Github Actions Workflows for Scheduled Algorithm Deployment

  • Blog posts
    • GitHub Actions for orcas, month #1
    • GitHub Actions for orcas, month #2
    • GitHub Actions for orcas, month #3
  • Technical documentation (wiki page)
  • Primary mentors: Valentina Staneva, Jesse Lopez, Val Veirs, Scott Veirs, Kunal Mehta

• Isabella Macchiavello / Changing the frontend of OrcaSound

  • Blog posts
    • My experience as a frontend developer at Orcasound for GSoC
    • Using Next.Js to build Orcasound Content Site
    • What I learned as a GSoC student working with Orcasound
  • Technical documentation (wiki page)
  • Primary mentors: Paul Cretu, Brendan Thatcher, Scott Veirs

• Jose Giraldo / Sounds similar for me: Using open embeddings to improve sampling on OrcaAL Tool

  • Blog posts
    • Beginning the summer with the sea sounds
    • Similarity and representation, another month of embedding experimentation
    • Late summer reflections on GSOC participation @Orcasound
  • Technical documentation (wiki page)
  • Primary mentors: Jesse Lopez, Valentina Staneva, Kunal Mehta, Val Veirs, Scott Veirs

Mentors

Mentor team

• Paul Cretu (Jotengine+)
• Valentina Staneva (University of Washington, eScience Institute)
• Jesse Lopez (Axiom Data Science)
• Val Veirs (Beam Reach)
• Kunal Mehta (2020 Orcasound GSoC student)
• Scott Veirs (Beam Reach)
• Brendan Thatcher (Orcasound UX lead)
• Ty Crisafulli (Google)

For more info, see the Orcasound Hacker Hall of Fame.

Advisors:

• Steve Hicks (Einhorn Engineering)

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