[Openchemistry-developers] GSoC 2018 Prospective Student for OpenChemistry

[Karol Langner]

Hi Adarsh,

Nice to hear from you. I'm one of the developers of cclib. It sounds like
you're already looking around at the various projects, and I'd encourage
you to continue doing so and get a good overview of the various codes and
projects in OpenChemsitry. Take a look at deepchem as well, since I see you
have some ML background.

We have a slack set up for OpenChemistry, which might be of interest to
you: https://openchemistry.slack.com

Don't hesitate to reach out to anyone from the various projects with
questions.

- Karol


On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:21 AM, B Adarsh <badarsh2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am Adarsh, a final year undergraduate student from India. I am writing
> this email to express my interest in contributing to OpenChemistry through
> the Google Summer of Code programme.
>
> I am majoring in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the Indian
> Institute of Technology Madras. My interests mainly lie in Computational
> Materials, particularly in atomistic modeling of Materials. I am currently
> working on my B.Tech thesis on development of Atomistic Force Fields of
> Titanium using Machine Learning. Through the project, I have gained
> expertise in usage of VASP and Quantum ESPRESSO and am quite proficient in
> tinkering with various utilities of software like VESTA and Atomsk.  Other
> utilitarian aspects like writing Python and Shell scripts for parallelizing
> jobs and automating sequential processes are things I am well versed with.
>
> I went through OpenChemistry's project ideas and past projects through the
> Google Summer of Code page, and I found the past project on "Materials
> Science Advances in Avogadro 2" quite along the lines of my current
> undergraduate research work. Some of the project proposals for Avogadro2
> like "Molecular Dynamics" and "VTK Integration" and proposals for NWChem,
> cclib, RDKit etc. were quite interesting, but with so many project ideas in
> the bucket, it was hard for me to zero in on a particular project. Hence to
> make an appropriate decision, I would like to know whether other students
> have approached you for particular projects, or whether you have projects
> that you think would be best fit for me.
>
> Brief about my skill set: C++, Python, Fortran (f77 and f90; gfortran and
> pgfortran compilers), Java, BASH Shell, Web (HTML, Javascript) etc
> Kindly have a look at my CV (attached) for more details.
>
> I would also like to know how I can get started for the same, and would
> like to stay connected with you. If there is any convenient mode of
> communication other than email, kindly do share the details.
>
> Thank you very much for your time. Looking forward to your reply.
>
> Regards,
> Adarsh B
> Final year Undergraduate
> Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Madras
> Phone: +91 9677023897 <+91%2096770%2023897>
>
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