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** What's your overall background? | ** What's your overall background? | ||
''PhD Student (2013-current). Full Scholarship. (Tuiton + Stipend). Electrical Engineering (Researching on next generation wireless networks) | ''PhD Student (2013-current). Full Scholarship. (Tuiton + Stipend). Electrical Engineering (Researching on next generation wireless networks). University of Leeds, UK'' | ||
''MSc. (2011-2013) Electrical Engineering. Tuition Scholarship. (3.90/4.00), National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. Distinction.'' | ''MSc. (2011-2013) Electrical Engineering. Tuition Scholarship. (3.90/4.00), National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. Distinction.'' | ||
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* Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | * Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | ||
'' | ''Participation in GSoC will not only help me be a part of an organization but also provide me the opportunity to be mentored by highly skilled and experienced professionals'' | ||
'' | ''The learning curve from this experience will be huge as I will walk through the process of making a normal looking piece of code worthy of integration in a software. | ||
''It is an impressive achievement to add on the CV and opens a lot of career options. I have a friend whose career jump started with GSoC :).'' | |||
** Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any. | ** Please also describe your previous experience with the GSoC, if any. | ||
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* Why are you choosing Octave? | * Why are you choosing Octave? | ||
''I | ''My PhD research work involves math/optimization/statistics.'' | ||
''I have a foundation in the area to be able to immediately start contributing as seen by functions added in the Optim package recently.'' | |||
''quadprog in Optim package [http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/optim/ci/62934b60c7505ce43caba6d517fd185ef04babc2/] '' | |||
'' | ''lsqlin in Optim package [http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/optim/ci/bb42d6e052a1ba0bd417110b54897e7229de01a3/]'' | ||
== C: Contact == | == C: Contact == | ||
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** Do you like to code a proof of concept to 'see how it turns out', modifying that and taking the risk of having work thrown away if it doesn't match what the project or original proponent had in mind? | ** Do you like to code a proof of concept to 'see how it turns out', modifying that and taking the risk of having work thrown away if it doesn't match what the project or original proponent had in mind? | ||
'' | ''I like to have some idea about what I'm going to do to stay focused. Having said that, I don't think the code ever turns out to be perfect at the very first attempt. Many times, it's necessary to write the code, starting from the simplest case for better understanding of the functionality and then extend it according to the project requirements.'' | ||
== Y: Your task == | == Y: Your task == | ||
* Did you select a task from our list of proposals and ideas? | * Did you select a task from our list of proposals and ideas? | ||
''yes'' | ''yes.'' | ||
** If yes, what task did you choose? Please describe what part of it you especially want to focus on if you can already provide this information. | ** If yes, what task did you choose? Please describe what part of it you especially want to focus on if you can already provide this information. | ||
''http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Nonlinear_and_constrained_least_squares'' | ''See http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Nonlinear_and_constrained_least_squares'' | ||
Discussion and work on project can be seen here. | |||
''http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-2015-Optimization-Package-Non-linear-and-constrained-least-squares-lsqcurvefit-lsqlin-lsqnonlin-tt4668777.html'' | ''http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-2015-Optimization-Package-Non-linear-and-constrained-least-squares-lsqcurvefit-lsqlin-lsqnonlin-tt4668777.html'' | ||
To summarize, adding functions to the Optim package for Octave using existing back-ends available. And adding another back-end as a stretch goal. | |||
* Please provide a rough estimated timeline for your work on the task. | * Please provide a rough estimated timeline for your work on the task. | ||
GSoC Application period | ***GSoC Application period | ||
'' 'quadprog' wrapper around 'qp' done '' | |||
'' 'lsqlin' using 'qp' done'' | |||
***Start of GSoC (May) | |||
'' ' | '' 'lsqnonlin' using 'nonlin_residmin' '' | ||
'' 'lsqcurvefit' using 'nonlin_curvefit', 'nonlin_residmin', or 'lsqnonlin', '' | |||
'' ' | '' 'fmincon' using 'nonlin_min', '' | ||
'' ' | '' 'nlinfit' using 'leasqr', '' | ||
***Midterm | |||
'' test cases for these functions [http://wiki.octave.org/Tests] '' | |||
instead of wrappers for top-level functions like qp. Call back-end function (__qp__) to be able to extract lambda. | '' instead of wrappers for top-level functions like qp. Call back-end function (__qp__) to be able to extract lambda. See [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-2015-Optimization-Package-Non-linear-and-constrained-least-squares-lsqcurvefit-lsqlin-lsqnonlin-tp4668777p4669284.html] '' | ||
***Stretch Goals | |||
'' Further missing functions in Optim package. See [http://wiki.octave.org/Optimization_package]'' | |||
Implement another back-end algorithm/add variant. | '' Implement another back-end algorithm/add variant. '' | ||
[[Category: Summer of Code]] | [[Category: Summer of Code]] | ||