<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi, </span><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'm Ramchandran, a fourth year undergraduate studying Msc Mathematics and Computer Science at<b> </b>BITS Pilani, Goa Campus. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I am currently doing a Google Summer of Code internship under Professor Madeleine Udell for the Num-focus Organisation. My project involves implementing presolve routines for optimization problems (specifically LP and SDP) . A discussion of the work and progress can be viewed in my <a href="http://ramcha24.github.io/gsoc.html" target="_blank">blog</a>. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I recently came across your GSOC Ideas list and was very interested in the proposed idea with Ryan Curtin as the mentor -<b> " Low rank/Sparse optimization using Frank Wolfe"</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">It looks like no one is currently doing as a part of GSOC this year and hence I would like to implement Frank Wolfe for the different norms over the coming months.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">My current works is in Convex.jl package and I have a theoretical understanding of convex optimization. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you for your time. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Yours sincerely,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Ramchandran<br></div><div><br></div><img width="0" height="0" class="mailtrack-img" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/1d6c4e20d88772ab9ce0c900c9a626a6051d74ef.png?u=490751"></div>