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Posted to dev@madlib.apache.org by Frank McQuillan <fm...@pivotal.io> on 2018/07/03 00:11:09 UTC

Re: New Committer: Nikhil Kak

Congrats and welcome Nikhil!

Frank

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Jingyi Mei <jm...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> Congrats Nikhil!
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Nandish Jayaram <j....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear MADlib dev community,
> >
> > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache MADlib
> > has invited Nikhil to become a committer and we are pleased
> > to announce that he has accepted.
> >
> > Nikhil started working on the project in Nov 2017.  Since that
> > time, he has contributed significantly in both features and bug
> > fixes in the following areas:
> >
> > - mini-batch preprocessor
> > - utilities
> > - neural networks/multilayer perceptron
> > - correlation
> > - HITS graph algorithm
> > - support vector machines
> > - LDA
> > - infrastructure projects
> > - documentation
> > - testing
> >
> > Being a committer enables easier contribution to the
> > project since there is no need to go via the patch
> > submission process. This should enable better productivity.
> >
> > Welcome Nikhil!
> >
> > Regards,
> > The Apache MADlib PMC
> >
>