Welcome Shannon! Thanks for your continuing contributions, glad to have you aboard. Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Shannon Quinn [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shannon Quinn Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov 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
