Introduction to Shogun team members

[karlnapf]

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

• contact details: IRC, email
• some personal infos: location, education, profession (only what the person is willing to share)
• when the person got involved
• what his interests/expertises are
• what his contributions/role are
• website, github page
• maybe even a list of the files he edited (pop-up sor so)

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]

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.

Ask him about

• Shogun's deep internals, such as the parameter framework
• Cross-validation and model-selection
• Kernel embeddings statistics (MMD, HSIC, etc)
• Gaussian processes

[kevinhughes27]

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
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Contact

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

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[iglesias]

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.

Ask him about

• The primal SO-SVM and its implementation in Shogun.
• k-NN and LMNN.
• Using valgrind to catch memory leaks and profiling Shogun code.
• Anything else :-)

[lisitsyn]

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.

Ask him about

• Anything about C++, Java, distributed things and other software engineering deals - I am in
• Dimensionality reduction
• If you have any ideas how to improve user experience with Shogun
• Anything else about Shogun - I can either help or guide you to someone helpful

[lambday]

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.

Ask him about

• Shogun's linalg internals (and externals)
• Computation engine and independent job framework
• Shogun in general - getting started, adding a new data-type support, memory management
• Recipe of any Indian dish (kidding, I don't know squat)

[karlnapf]

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?