Hi, my name is Yashas Lokesh, and I'm a junior (3rd year) undergrad at the University of Maryland, studying a CS and Math double degree with a Physics Minor. I also teach a Python web development course for undergraduates at my university.
I have about 2 years of experience with Python. I started by completing a 100 days of code challenge, where I created many scripts to access various APIs and present information to the user, some scripts to explore machine learning libraries, and my current work is mainly based on Pygame and Pymunk. I've been developing an adventurer game with Pygame, and am currently working on a research project where I create a game with Pygame/Pymunk to use a reinforcement learning library. My first contribution to OSS will be for the aforementioned research project. I've taken math courses in Abstract Alg., Linear Alg., Diff Eq., Multivariate Calc., Number Theory, Analysis, and Topology. I participated in a direct reading program with a graduate student last semester where I worked with Weyl and Coxeter groups, so I'm particularly interested in group theory. I have experience with Mathematica, I have used it in a cryptography course and as a visualizer for multivariate functions and their properties. I don't have a lot of experience with SymPy; I've used it to introduce my brothers to Python and get them more interested in math. I originally thought of contributing to SymPy for GSoC 2020, but I accepted an internship offer this summer so I can't commit enough time to the GSoC timeline. I'm most interested in contributing to the combinatorics module, specifically implementing group theoretic algorithms as described in A Handbook of Computational Group Theory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/771dec72-a0c2-4684-af23-79773ffff645%40googlegroups.com.
