I will email you offline. On Thursday, February 4, 2016, Tao Lin <nblin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > I am Tao Lin, a senior Computer Science student highly interested in Data > Science (Distributed Computing, Machine Learning, Visualization, etc.). I'd > like to join Google Summer of Code 2016 and contribute to Spark this year. > When I was viewing the past GSoC projects, I was impressed by "Enhance > MLlib's Python API", completed by Manoj Kumar (Mentored by Xiangrui Meng) > last year. I look forward to writing something as meaningful and impactful > as what they did. > The organization list of GSoC 2016 hasn't been released yet, but I'd like > to > join the community and make a stark on solving real problems asap. Is there > anyone who's going to sign up as a mentor for GSoC this year? Maybe you > could tell me about the projects you are going to mentor and give me some > suggestions about what issues I could fix now to get a start. Thanks! > > Here is more information about myself and my related experiences: > I'm going to pursue my graduate study in the US after this summer. (I have > received an offer from U Wisconsin–Madison, and I'm waiting for more > admissions.) Since I am vacant this spring and summer, I could put full > enthusiasm into the open-source development. > I am quite familiar with Spark. I did research on data visualization in the > Visual Analytics Group, State Key Lab of CAD&CG for more than two years. I > administrated a cluster with more than 20 nodes for more than one year > there. I helped the whole group preprocess large datasets on the cluster > with Hadoop and Spark. In one of the projects, I used Spark to > independently > process 14 billion trajectory records (about 1.8 TB) on the cluster. > The highlight of my professional experience has been working as a visiting > intern in the HKUST Multimedia Technology Research Center. Through that > experience, I have not only improved my programming skills, but I have also > learned how to work better in a large software engineering team by applying > software engineering techniques (like unit testing and code review) and how > to communicate cross-culturally. > As for programming languages, I'm good at Java and Python. And I believe I > could handle Scala or R in a short time if it is needed in the project. > (Besides, I'm experienced in C++ and JavaScript, which are unlikely to be > used in Spark projects.) > You could also view my CV at http://nblintao.github.io/pdf/Tao_Lin_CV.pdf > > Thanks for your time! > Best Regards, > Tao > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Interested-in-Contributing-to-Spark-as-GSoC-2016-tp16211.html > Sent from the Apache Spark Developers List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org <javascript:;> > >
