The Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory is pleased to welcome three students to the lab as Google Summer of Code (GSoC) scholars. Two (Lalith Baru and Jayadratha Gayen) will be joining the DevoWorm group and one (Vidhi Rohira) will be joining the Open-source Sustainability project.
Lalith and Jayadratha will be working on different aspects of our DevoGraph project (Github). Lalith’s successful project proposal is called “NDP-HNN: Modelling Neural Developmental Programs of C. elegans Using Growing Hypergraph Neural Networks”, while Jayadratha’s successful project proposal is called “DevoTG: Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for Modeling C. elegans Development”. Good luck to both of them! They will be working with the DevoWorm group and active in our weekly meetings. They will also be hosted by the OpenWorm Foundation and contributing to their mission.
Vidhi will be contributing to OREL's Open-source Sustainability project (Github) by working at the intersection of Reinforcement Learning and Agent-based Modeling. Vidhi’s successful project proposal is called “SustainHub: Adaptive Agent-Based Model for Open-Source Community Sustainability”. Check out her updates as part of the Saturday Morning NeuroSim meeting series.
We have also invited our unsuccessful candidates to join our Open-source interest group. We host this meeting every Friday at 12 Noon Eastern time, and cover promoting open-source practices, project development, and project management education.
