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* Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies.<br />I am studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the process of obtaining a major in computer engineering and minors in physics and statistics (expected graduation: May 2022). In my free time, I like to draw, cook, work out, and read.

** Which languages do you speak?<br />I speak English and Bulgarian natively and German at an advanced level.

** What's your overall background? <br />Although I have not yet had the chance to take highly specialized courses at my university, I have recently found a passion for data science and machine learning while participating in a few hackathons this year. I plan to pursue them in the coming years as part of my computer engineering degree.

*Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so?<br />I worked on an open-source project for the first time at Hack Illinois this year. I was very taken with the idea of being able to do something truly useful, however small, as the majority of programming I had done for classes and extracurriculars in the past felt quite trivial. Google Summer of Code seems like an excellent opportunity to pursue an open-source project with greater depth and guidance. In the past, I have worked under mentors doing research. I believe that the structure and mentorship that I will experience in GSoC will be incredibly constructive to my learning process, as well as fantastic at expediting my pace in completing work.

**Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any. <br />This is my first time applying to GSoC due to the minimum age.

* Why are you choosing Octave?<br />I began using Octave when I took the Coursera Machine Learning course offered by Andrew Ng from Stanford. I really enjoy the speed at which I can work in this highly intuitive language, and I would love to help make it better for others to use!