17 OSRE Students Contributing to UC-Based OS Projects
UC Mentors will work with record number of OSRE Students including 14 GSoC Mentors in Summer 2022
The UCSC OSPO Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) Program is excited to announce that our mentors will work with 17 student contributors this summer. This includes 14 contributors sponsored by the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) under the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) mentor organization. Aside from GSoC, OSRE sponsors this year include Toshiba America Electronic Components, and Baskin Engineering Inclusive Excellence Hub (IEH), and CITRIS.
This is the most students to be supported by the OSRE program since its inception in 2020, and almost doubles the number of OSRE students in 2021. Most notably, the number of GSoC contributor slots is nearly triple the slots awarded to CROSS in 2021. This significant increase in GSoC support is in large part due to the expansion of the OSRE to include mentors from other UC campuses and affiliated labs. This year the OSRE is excited to include 18 mentors who include researchers and faculty from three UC campuses (Santa Cruz, Riverside, and San Diego) as well one UC-run lab (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab). All these mentors are involved with UC-based open source projects and ecosystems.
OSRE mentors posted project ideas for contributors on the Project Ideas page in early 2022 and began advising interested contributors in February. Interested students/contributors submitted their project proposals in April and slots were announced on May 19. The CROSS/OSPO organization administrators received 53 applications this year through the GSoC portal – a 33% increase from the 2021 application pool.
Student contributors begin working on their projects in mid-June, ending in late August/ early September. All summer contributors will be asked to present their work at the Open Source Research Symposium scheduled to take place in late September 2022 (in-person at UC Santa Cruz as well as remote.) The OSPO will also be highlighting the work of these contributors throughout the summer, so come back to check out the progress.
OSRE 2022 Student Contributors
| Contributor | Summer Project | Country | Contributor’s Affiliation | UC-based OS Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Abdussalam | Geospatial Data Science on AsterixDB | Egypt | Alexandria University | Asterix |
| Sridhar Dhamija | DirtViz: Visualize Sensor Data | India | Birla Institute of Technology and Science, K.K. Birla Goa Campus | DirtVix |
| Xuan Xu | Python Interface to HDF5 Asynchronous I/O | China | Zhengzhou University | HDF5 |
| Craig White | Create python interface for PDC | USA | Florida Polytechnic University | PDC |
| Talha Ahmed | Register File Generator | Pakistan | Usman Institute of Technology | OpenRAM |
| Arman Avetisyan | OpenLane/SKY130 Demos and tutorials | Armenia | National Polytech University | OpenRoad |
| Chamika Sudusinghe | VLSI Power Planning and Analysis | Sri Lanka | University of Moratuwa, | OpenRoad |
| Nimra Khan | Demos and Tutorials | Pakistan | Usman Institute of Technology | OpenRoad |
| Pranay Mathur | Path finding algorithm using OpenCV and machine learning | India | Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani | OSAVC |
| Bhumil Depani | Driver Module for Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller | India | Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of | OSAVC |
| Joshua Angel | Autonomous Vehicle and Sensor Dynamic Simulation with Gazebo | USA | UC Santa Cruz | OSAVC |
| Asavari Ambavane | Develop a website for PolyPhy | India | Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute | PolyPhy |
| Patrice Musoke | DevOps for PolyPhy, A Python Library for Polyphorm. | USA | Temple University | PolyPhy |
| Hari Prasad | Discrete graph extraction from simulated scalar fields | India | T.K.M College of Engineering | PolyPhy |
| Kwan Ting (Kestino) Lau | Creating new data visualization regimes | USA | University of Michigan | PolyPhy |
| Rupesh Gelal | Developing website and writing content for PolyPhy | Nepal | Nepal Engineering College | PolyPhy |
| Rachel Lau | NVMe for Rotational Media | USA | UC Santa Cruz | Eusocial Storage |
