Hello everyone, My name is Prabhat Sharma ( Github: Prabhat-IIT) and I am a sophomore at IIT Roorkee, India pursuing Electrical Engineering. I am a machine learning enthusiast and am well versed with C/C++, Python and Matlab. I've completed some basic Machine Learning MOOCs and in the process implemented some pretty famous algorithms from scratch. Recently, I've Interned with Shopclues <https://www.shopclues.com/> an e-commerce giant in India. I won a hackathon organized by the company and helped them to build a merchant rating system for over 6 lakh merchants by analysing real time data and feeding it to simple but effectively designed machine learning algorithm which was formulated by me and my team members.
I'm also a member of my colleges Data Science group <https://github.com/dsgiitr>. We are a bunch of people who organize open discussions and workshops related to various cool and interesting topics of machine learning. Some of our members have also written some awesome blogs <https://medium.com/data-science-group-iitr>. Presently, I'm working with Prof. Kusum Deep( google scholar <http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ByQN_c0AAAAJ>) on convex optimization. She is an expert on Nature inspired optimization techniques especially Particle swarm optimization. She has also written a book on it <http://www.newagepublishers.com/servlet/nagetbiblio?bno=001699> . Lately, I've been helping her in organizing a workshop <http://scrs.in/seta/> on Particle swarm optimization jointly organized by *Soft Computing Research Society. * So, I'm very much interested in the Particle Swarm optimization project. I would like to know what can I do prior to Gsoc proposal submission regarding the project. I can make a base PR for PSO like the one which is open or I can implement some other optimizers for constrained optimization problems. Thanks and Regards Prabhat Sharma Sophomore, IIT Roorkee
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