Welcome to the new Google Summer of Code scholars for 2024! INCF is sponsoring four students for which I (Bradly Alicea) am acting as mentor: two students for the DevoWorm group (via the OpenWorm Foundation community) and two students for the Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory.
D-GNNs (sponsored by the DevoWorm group)
Congratulations to Pakhi Banchalia and Mehul Arora for being accepted to work on the Developmental Graph Neural Networks (D-GNNs) project. Pakhi will be working on incorporating Neural Developmental Programs (NDPs) into GNN models. Mehul will be working on hypergraph techniques for developmental lineage trees and embryogenesis [1]. Himanshu Chougule (Google Summer of Code scholar) is a co-mentor for this project.
Congratulations to Sarrah Bastawala for being accepted to work on the Open-source Sustainability project [2]. Sarrah is incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) into the collection of agent-based approaches for this project. Jesse Parent is a co-mentor for this project.
We also have two Open-source Development scholars for Summer 2024: Adama Koita and Shubham Soni. They will be participating in the Orthogonal Lab's open-source weekly meetings in addition to projects based around Virtual Reality and Open-source Sustainability, respectively.
