Hi @pgleeson and @sanjayankur31 ,
I am Dhruvanshu Joshi, a pre final student at VJTI pursuing my bachelors in Computer Engineering. I am interested in contributing to GSOC 2024 under Open Source Brain with the project “Open source, cross simulator, large scale network models in NeuroML and PyNN”. A brief about myself: I am a computer vision and deep learning enthusiast with python being my primary programming language. I have worked on several projects in python like pothole detection. I am also the global runner up of the OpenCV Spatial AI competition, 2022. I also have experience as an open source contributor. I have worked as an open source intern at PyMC, which is an open source bayesian statistics python library in 2023 and have been contributing actively to the open source community since then. My work there significantly enhanced my Python skills. I am attaching my resume here for your reference.
As per your guidance, I am currently studying the user documentation for NeuroML. I also did some research and found out that a similar project was proposed last year. I found a few papers that had been recommended: Open Source Brain paper, LEMS/NeuroML2, libNeuroML, NeuroML v1, PyNN . I’d start going through them once I am thoroughly familiar with NeuroML and the modelling pipeline.
I do realise that a lot of the preliminary work here involves reading the resources and learning. I’d like to confirm if these papers are also relevant for this project. Also I’d like to ask if there will be some task (like there was last year) for the selection process so that I can efficiently prioritise and divide my time.
Sincerely,
Dhruvanshu Joshi