[MENTEE] Aryan Saini

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Mentee:

Aryan Saini
A 3rd year undergrad at IIIT gwalior, India
Interested in Machine Learning and Deep learning forecasters

Mentor(s):

@fkiraly @benHeid @fnhirwa

Why did you join sktime's mentorship program?

I have been learning and working on different ML projects for a while now. A few months back, I came across sktime while looking for some open-source repos to work on. I really liked the community and how they support new contributors who have little to no experience with open source. Sktime also showed me a totally new aspect of ML—time forecasting, which I had no experience with before. So, I think the mentoring program will help me learn about time forecasting and how I can use DL and ML for this task.

What topics are you working on?

Right now I am working on some forecasters in sktime and pytorch-forecasting:

• RBFForecaster: [ENH] create rbf_forecaster.py using RBFTransformer Neural networks sktime#7334
• MAPAForecaster: [ENH] MAPA forecaster sktime#7620
• xLSTMTime: [ENH] xLSTMTime implementation pytorch-forecasting#1709

What are your learning goals?

I am really interested in implementing ML/DL forecasters in sktime and pytorch-forecasting as I think this will deepen my knowledge of Time Forecasting. I also want to learn package maintenance and improve my knowlege of GitHub and Git functions.

What's next for you after the mentorship program?

I would like to continue contributing to sktime and other open source organisations.