GCI 2011 Mentors

Here is a list of some of the mentors for Google Code-In. The preferred communication is through our mailing list or IRC channel (#sympy on freenode). Specific mentors may be busy at various time throughout the program, so the best way is to contact the entire community. This is also more aligned with the way that open source development works.

Aaron Meurer

GitHub account: https://github.com/asmeurer

Email: [email protected]

IRC Nick: asmeurer

Bio: Aaron Meurer is a bachelors student studying mathematics at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. He started working with SymPy under Google Summer of Code in 2009, and in 2011, he became the lead developer of SymPy.

Ondřej Čertík

GitHub account: https://github.com/certik

Email: [email protected]

IRC Nick: ondrej

Webpage: http://ondrejcertik.com/

Bio: Ondřej is a PhD student at University of Nevada, Reno. He started SymPy in 2006, and passed the leadership to Aaron in 2011. He is still involved with SymPy, helping with Google Summer of Code and other administrative tasks. His research is in atomic structure calculations and he uses Python and SymPy almost daily. Besides that, his research is done mainly in (modern) Fortran and C/C++.

Mateusz Paprocki

GitHub account: https://github.com/mattpap

Email: [email protected]

IRC Nick: mattpap

Bio: Mateusz Paprocki is a software developer and a computer scientist. He obtained masters degree in computer science and engineering in 2010 from Technical University of Wrocław in Poland. Mateusz has been working on SymPy since 2007. His main areas of expertise are polynomials and simplification of expressions. In 2007 he was a Google Summer of Code student working on implementation of recurrence solving and symbolic summation algorithms. He was also a Google Summer of Code mentor in 2009, 2010, 2011, and participated as mentor in Google Highly Open Participation Contest in 2008. Mateusz has been a participant and a speaker of several Python scientific conferences and events (SciPy, EuroSciPy, Py4Science, ...).

Hector

GitHub : https://github.com/hector1618

Email : [email protected]

Bio : Hector (Prafullkumar P. Tale) is a final year student of 5-year Integrated M.Sc. program in Applied Mathematics at IIT Roorkee, India. He is open source enthusiast and works in scientific computing. He is one of the authors of SymPy since April 2011.

Saptarshi Mandal

GitHub account: https://github.com/saptman

Email: [email protected]

Bio: Saptman is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur where he completed his 5-year Integrated M.Sc. program in Mathematics and Computing. He does a lot of numerical computing in Fortran using FEATFLOW for food and hacks on SymPy for fun. He was a participant in GSoC 2011 and was responsible for the creation of the combinatorics module. His area of interests are combinatorics (surprise!), optimization and differential equations.

Joachim Durchholz

GitHub account: https://github.com/toolforger

Email: [email protected]

Bio: Jo is a Master of Computer Science, with a few decades of practice in the software industry. He is totally green as a Sympy developer but has several years of experience as a professional software translator, so he will be mentoring translations from English to German.

Stefan Krastanov

GitHub account: https://github.com/krastanov

Email: [email protected]

Bio: Stefan is a MSc physics student at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He has some minor contributions to the codebase concerning the physics module and plotting, but he is still new to the project. He will be mentoring mainly the translations to Bulgarian (if any), documentation tasks and maybe translations to French.

Vladimir Perić

GitHub account: https://github.com/vperic

Email: vlada.peric AT gmail

IRC Nick: vperic

Bio: Vladimir is a Bc student of Open Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He worked on making SymPy Python 3 compatible, as part of GSoC 2011. He is interested in the infrastructure surrounding the project, particularly the testing framework, and in outreach and popularizing SymPy. He will also mentor translations to Serbian.

Matthew Rocklin

GitHub account: https://github.com/mrocklin

Webpage: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mrocklin/

Bio: Matthew is a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He is interested in scientific computing, particularly simulating systems that contain uncertainty like weather forecasting. In SymPy he is engaged in the statistics, sets, and linear algebra modules.