<div dir="ltr"><div>Sir,</div><div><br></div><div>I am an Undergraduate student of <b>Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. "IIT-V"</b>. I am pursuing my B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering, currently in the 3rd year.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a keen interest in the field of <b>Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval</b>. Also I have worked a lot upon fields like <b>NLP, Speech Synthesis-Recognition and Processing, Image and Video Processing, Machine Learning and Neural Networks.</b> What I found after working in all these is ML is common to all and suits my interest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have done online courses on Machine Learning (by Andrew NG), and Introduction to NLP (by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning). I have done various projects on Machine Learning including implementation of <b>Neural Networks, SVM, CRF, PCA, etc</b> and have deep knowledge in these fields. Currently, I am engaged in a research Project over <b>NLP (Temporal analysis of Tweets)</b>, under guidance of <b>Dr. Judith Gelerenter, Carnegie Mellon University</b>, since October 2013 which is soon going to complete and our work will be made <b>open source</b> after its completion this project involved use of machine learning methods like <b>SVM and CRF for NLP.</b></div>
<div>Last summer I did an internship in Korea on <b>Speech Processing</b> which involved <b>neural networks for Speech recognition</b>. Also, I am learning <b>Deep Learning</b> for my interest. I am efficient coder in <b>C, C++, Python and Matlab/Octave.</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>I am a self-motivated student and I am very interested in contributing more and more in field of ML and IR. Now, I want to do some open source contributions and GSOC is the best platform to do so. I would like to sincerely contribute to Ranking section of Xapian</div>
<div><br></div><div>I saw the Ideas list of Xapian and these two projects under <b>Ranking</b> category caught my eye. I am particularly interested in <b>Project: Learning to Rank.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Machine learning is core field of my interest and I am good at it.</div>
<div>This seems to be a great project to get hands on experience in ML and IR, with contributing to open source. By my past experiences I am trained to work alone under mentorship, and I will give my 100% sincere efforts in completing whichever task I am given up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please help me on how should I proceed for GSoC.</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>-<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Osho Gupta</font></b></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b> 3rd Year, B.Tech. </b><b>,</b></font></div>
<div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Department of Electronics Engineering,</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University,</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, serif"> Varanasi, India</font></b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b><font face="times new roman, serif"> Contact no.: +918604221858</font></b></div><div><b><font face="times new roman, serif"> Email ID:</font> </b><b><a href="mailto:osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in" target="_blank">osho.gupta.ece11@iitbhu.ac.in</a></b></div>
<div><b> </b><b><a href="mailto:osh1234@ieee.org" target="_blank">osh1234@ieee.org</a></b></div></div></div>
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