User:Starparvin

Public application

A: An introduction

• I am graduate student in the field of electrical engineering at NYU-Poly. I am Iranian student speaking Persian and English fluently. I have been using MATLAB for 6 years and now I am using Octave.
• I think GSoC is a great opportunity for students to gain professioal experience so I want to use this chance to increase my experiences as well as contribute to open source projects.
  • This is my first time participating in GSoC.
• I have been choosing Octave because I am familiar with Octave and I am using it in my online machine learning class. Moreover this is my field of expertise and I love to improve Octave so the community of Octave users can have a better experience.

C: Contact

• Starparvin
• PDT, UTC-8 or -x.
• I usually code around 11.00 to 19.00 with the flexibility to start earlier like (~9.00).

E: Coding experience

This part is one of the more important ones in your application. You are allowed to be as verbose as you want, as long as you stay on topic ;-)

• I have learned Matlab in high school and since then I have been using C++. My recent experience of C++ is my Summer internship at Insieme Networks which I was using Omnet++ simulator that is implemented in C++. I was responsible for implementing new modules and simulating new ideas. I also took Financial Software Projects which I had to implement a Risk manager Application with C++ in back-end and Java in front-end.

I have experience of 6 years with MATLAB. I learned MATLAB in the first year of college and I did lots of projects in MATLAB during my undergrad. I think I am kind of professional when it comes to MATLAB. About Octave, my first experience using Octave is also my summer internship which I used m-scripts to process data and plot the results automatically. I am also using Octave with my Online course, Machine learning at Stanford.

• I also know C which I learned in the first year of college. I also know Java and I did several projects with it. Moreover I am developing an android app which I am using Java. I ask know Python. I am working on a project as Graduate Assistant and I use python scripts to run simulations and process data with R packages in Python.
• I do not have experience to participate in open source projects thats why I am trying GSoC and I hope I can have this chance and work on my first open source project.
• I implemented financial calculations for my Risk management Project which I had to parse the information of millions of bonds and calculate the risk of a whole portfolio. I learned advance topic in C++ and I solidified my object-oriented knowledge like Polymorphism. I was working in a team of two people and both of us participate in coding.
• I do not have any commits or patches.

F: Feeling fine

• Please describe (in short) your experience with the following tools:
  • IRC and mailing lists: No experience
  • Mercurial or other source code management systems: CVS, SVN and Github
  • Mediawiki or other wiki software: I am familiar with mediawiki as I am using it for my research in university.
  • make, gcc, gdb or other development tools: yes, totally familiar. gdb is very good for debugging and I have used it in my summer internship.
• My passion for Octave. I hope that I can become a data scientist later and I know the value of numerical applications like MATLAB and Octave. I love to improve this tools and contribute to the community which I am a member of it.

O: Only out of interest

• Did you ever hear about Octave before?
  • If so, when and where? How far have you been involved already?
  • If not, where would you expect or advise us to do advertising?
• What was the first question concerning Octave you could not find an answer to rather quickly? Of course more than one question can be stated. We try to improve based on this each year! Includes learning how to use it, code, website, GSoC application, …

P: Prerequisites

• Please state the operating system you work with.
  • If you have access to more than one, please state them and the conditions under which you are granted this access.
• Please estimate an average time per day you will be able to (if separated) access
  • an internet connection
  • a computer
  • a computer with your progressing work on
• Please describe the degree up to which you can install new software on computers you have access to.

S: Self-assessment

• Please describe how useful criticism looks from your point of view as committing student.
• How autonomous are you when developing? If you answer both subquestions with "Yes, definitely", we are a tad confused. ;-)
  • Do you like to discuss changes intensively and not start coding until you know what you want to do?
  • 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?

Y: Your task

• Did you select a task from our list of proposals and ideas?
  • 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. Please also wiki-link the page for your elaborated proposal here.
  • If you apply for a task you have added yourself instead, please describe this task, its scope and people you already talked to concerning it. What field of tasks did you miss on the list?
• Please provide a rough estimated timeline for your work on the task. This should include the GSoC midterms and personal commitments like exams or vacation ("non-coding time"). Optionally include two or three milestones you expect.