Self-Intro and GSoC Project Proposal

[Tirthankar Mazumder]

Hi, my name is Tirthankar Mazumder, and I am a 2nd year BS Mathematics student in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

I wish to apply for the Implementing Polynomials in SymEngine project. In that vein, I am currently going through the list of references provided to catch up on the existing work done in this area, and get an idea of the general roadmap.

• level of familiarity with python (years of programming, previous projects): While I don't have much in terms of official experience (with certificates and whatnot), I have been programming in Python for 2-3 years now. I regularly use Python for some small self-projects. I have also used it for some Project Euler problems, and some coursework assignments, and a simulation project.
• Since I am planning on applying to a project which requires C++ experience, I feel that I should mention my experience with C++ too: I have participated in the development of a C++ game/physics engine called Physicc (GitHub link). In this project, I was put in charge of handing all the CI, which I did using GitHub Actions. Moreover, I wrote the bounding volume code (link), for which I used template metaprogramming (CRTP) to ensure a low runtime overhead. I also co-wrote the BVH and broadphase portions with one other person. In addition to this, I also successfully used Doxygen and GitHub Actions to extract the documentation from our project and host it online using GitHub Pages (link). Apart from all this, I have also written a ray tracer in C++20 (link).
  

• mathematical education level (high school / ... / PhD?): Majoring in math, minoring in CS
  
• particular expertise (physics? biology? ...subtopics): 
  
• particular algorithmic interests: Improving SymPy-SymEngine integration and adding features to SymEngine
  
• level of familiarity with symbolic math systems "computer algebra": I have some experience with Mathematica and Sage, and I have been using SymPy for some course assignments.
  
• your familiarity with SymPy (e.g. how have you used SymPy)? I have mainly used SymPy for some simulation-type work. I use it to symbolically create equations and then convert them to fast NumPy ufuncs for simulation purposes.
  
• other possibly relevant information -- geographical location? native language?: India and English.