Welcome Shannon!
On 14.02.2011 03:06, Shannon Quinn wrote:
Thank you so much, everyone, for the very warm welcome. I have
thoroughly enjoyed working on the Mahout project and with the
community the past several months, so I am very much looking forward
to continuing to do so in the capacity of a committer.
I'm a first-year PhD student studying computational biology at
Carnegie Mellon, with a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and
an MS in computational biology also from Carnegie Mellon. I discovered
Mahout shortly after delivering my master's thesis, when another PhD
student mentioned his need for parallelized machine learning
algorithms for operating on the massive biological datasets his thesis
entailed.
I delivered my first contribution to Mahout as part of the 2010
edition of the Google Summer of Code, in the form of the spectral
clustering algorithms: k-means and eigencuts. The latter is an
algorithm developed as part of the PhD thesis of a faculty in my PhD
program, who will likely become one of my advisors. Since this past
fall, he and I have been conducting research in methods of diagnosing
a disorder known as Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) using high-speed
video of the cilia itself.
We've already submitted a poster and a paper on the topic regarding
some of our preliminary findings (which doesn't involve Mahout), but
the overall goal of the project is to develop a large-scale
distributed framework for processing these videos and characterizing
the motion patterns involved. As such, Mahout will be an integral part
of this project. Even though I don't have a thesis yet, I'm focusing
into image/video processing on a parallel environment, which means
Mahout will very likely be part of my PhD thesis.
So basically, you're all stuck with me now :) I hope to grow into the
enormous shoes I've been given with the committer title. Very much
looking forward to continuing to work on this project! Thanks again!
Shannon
On 2/12/11 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of
their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and
Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in
giving a warm welcome!
Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a
paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind
sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
Thanks,
Grant
