Intros!

[RaoOfPhysics]

Use the template below to introduce yourselves! Some of the questions overlap with the survey, but that's ok.

- Who I am: 
- What I do: 
- What interests me: 
- My project(s): [LINK to relevant comment in #24]
- How I can contribute: 
- Where I tweet (if applicable): [@HANDLE](https://twitter.com/HANDLE)

(N.B.: Do not use this issue for 👍 / +1 and similar comments. Use it exclusively for introductions.)

[RaoOfPhysics]

I'll start!

• Who I am: Achintya Rao
• What I do: Science communication for CMS. I'm also doing a PhD in science communication.
• What interests me: Outreach and engagement
• My project(s): Will add!
• How I can contribute: Editing, project coördination, outreach etc.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @RaoOfPhysics

[kreczko]

• Who I am: Luke Kreczko
• What I do: Research Assistant for CMS (physics & computing), but I do also do DevOps,
• What interests me: Making (analysis) software easier to use and long-term maintainable.
• My project(s): Too many to list, so here are the groups instead:
  • https://github.com/HEP-Puppet & https://github.com/uobdic for DevOps
  • https://github.com/BristolTopGroup & https://github.com/kreczko for physics
• How I can contribute: Most things that have to do with code.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): Sadly (?), I do not tweet.

[ric-bianchi]

• Who I am: Riccardo Maria BIANCHI ("Ric.")
• What I do:
  • Physicist, Post-Doc at Pittsburgh University, based at CERN
  • Developer for ATLAS Computing Core SW
  • maintainer of the ATLAS 3D event display software (VP1)
  • ...plus a bit of ATLAS Outreach :)
• What interests me: Interactive graphics and data visualization, explaining things to people, outreach
• My project(s): Will add!
• How I can contribute: coding, tutorials, new ideas!
• Where I tweet (if applicable): No tweets, so far...

[JoeriHermans]

• Who I am: Joeri Hermans
• What I do:
  • Technical Student at IT-DB-SAS
  • Master A.I. student at Maastricht University
• What interests me: Machine learning, astronomy.
• My project(s): Will add.
• How I can contribute: Coding, distributed computing, ML.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @JoeriHermans (I don't tweet much though)

[pherterich]

• Who I am: Patricia Herterich
• What I do: Finishing up my PhD in Library and Information Science (on research data services for the HEP community) before I leave CERN in a bit
• What interests me: Enabling Open Research, anything else I can help with
• My project(s): this study group ;)
• How I can contribute: baking (vegan) muffins, wearing the Mozilla Science t-shirt so we can be found
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @pherterich

[jacquerie]

• Who I am: Jacopo Notarstefano
• What I do: I am a Junior Fellow contributing to http://inspirehep.net/.
• What interests me: Data Analysis in Python and related technologies.
• My project(s): List your projects! #24 (comment)
• How I can contribute: coding, coding, coding.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @Jaconotar

[Cotera]

• Who I am: Ruben Cotera
• What I do: Technical Student at CERN.
• What interests me: Developing (any language, I learn), make friends.
• My project(s): nothing to note here now.
• How I can contribute: coding, ideas, docs..., just ask me.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @RubenCotera (in English), @CrezCantabria (in Spanish and English). I just separate my English and Spanish accounts =D

[betatim]

• Who I am: Tim Head
• What I do: Consulting scientist and open source tool maker, previously: CERN
• What interests me: open-source software, building things, triathlon.
• My projects: everpub and everware and tim's blog
• How I can contribute: machine-learning, python, git, team building
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @betatim

[lukasheinrich]

• Who I am: Lukas Heinrich
• What I do: PhD in experimental particle physics (ATLAS)
• What interests me: physics (d'oh), developing a tools for physics analyses, making them reproducible, generally moving hep s/w to a better place
• My project(s): [LINK to relevant comment in List your projects! #24]
• How I can contribute: technical presentations about c++ / python, web services / tools, prototyping new ideas
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @lukasheinrich_

[hachreak]

• Who I am: Leonardo Rossi
• What I do: Fellow on IT department
• What interests me: physics, erlang, distributed computing, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, ...
• My project(s): See: @hachreak
• How I can contribute: everything I've a project on.
• Where I tweet: @hachreak

[daslerr]

• Who I am: Robin Dasler
• What I do: Fellow in Scientific Information Service (SIS), working on EU-funded THOR (http://project-thor.eu)
• What interests me: how information is represented and encapsulated; making research support services match the reality of how things need to get done
• My project(s): nothing of interest of my own to report yet
• How I can contribute: requirementsy/coordinatey things; rusty coding skills
• Where I tweet (if applicable): my Twitter is just for lurking :)

[Tontonis]

• Who I am: Hugo Day
• What I do: Fellow in TE-ABT - Beam coupling impedance and HV behaviour for fast pulsed kicker magnets
• What interests me: Reproducible scientific output, interactive analysis examples both professionally and as an educational tool
• My project(s): CosmicPi (cosmicpi.org)
• How I can contribute: Python, crash testing, building hardware things
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @Tontonis

[tpmccauley]

• Who I am: Tom McCauley
• What I do: Physicist and software developer at University of Notre Dame for CMS and QuarkNet
• What interests me: Open(data + science) and data visualisation (among other things)
• My project(s): iSpy WebGL, an event display for CMS (among other things)
• How I can contribute: WebGL, coding (JavaScript, C++, python)
• Where I tweet: @tpmccauley

[mickypaganini]

• Who I am: Michela (Micky) Paganini
• What I do:
  Physics PhD Student at Yale University, who likes to play around with Deep Learning and apply it pretty much anywhere in ATLAS
• What interests me: pretty data visualization, open/reproducible science, science outreach, Deep Learning and ML in general, IoT, learning new things!
• My project(s): applying DL to tagging (b, top, boosted boson) and event-level classification for Physics analysis, dark knowledge to replace slow algorithms, other fun ML-based experiments here and there
• How I can contribute: tutorials & presentations, outreach & publicity, testing, food!!
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @WonderMicky

[TaiSakuma]

• Who I am: Tai Sakuma
• What I do: physics at CMS
• What interests me: data analysis, data visualization, event
  reconstruction, event visualization, detector geometry, 3D
  modeling, 3D printing, 3d animation, test-driven development,
  continuous integration, an extension of space time symmetry, the
  identity of dark matter, a solution to fine-tuning problem
• My project(s): SketchUpCMS,
  AlphaTwirl (private now, will be public)
• How I can contribute: Python, Ruby, R, etc.
• Where I tweet: @taisakuma (I don't tweet often)

[ozel]

• Who I am: Oliver Keller
• What I do: physics education research at CERN
• What interests me: web-based data analysis and visualisation (jsROOT), learn to do simulations (GEANT4, AllPix), creative coding, interactive media and installations
• My project(s): iPadPix, Microcosm's LED collision animation, Making music with yeast bubbles
• How I can contribute: creative coding (Processing,openFrameworks), pixel detector analysis (MAFalda), embedded C/C++ (if anyone is keen on that ;), Arduino & Co.
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @0zelot

[rochaporto]

• Who I am: Ricardo Rocha
• What I do: software engineer in the IT department
• What interests me: easy app setup and deployment, visualizations, learning more about end user analysis, app optimization
• My project(s): will add!
• How I can contribute: golang, python, container stuff (docker, swarm, kubernetes), scaling apps
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @ahcorporto, but i don't

[clelange]

Who I am: Clemens Lange
What I do: Physics analysis at CMS, playing around with python and developer boards
What interests me: physics, python, home automation, Arduino, ESP8266, machine learning
My project(s): to be added
How I can contribute: beautifying shell prompts, scripting, Arduino
Where I tweet (if applicable): @clelange

[tiborsimko]

• Who I am: Tibor Simko
• What I do: CERN IT, project leader, software developer
• What interests me:
  • knowing myself, knowing universe
  • building things, programming, open science, FOSS, GNU/Linux
• My project(s):
  • Invenio digital library framework
  • CERN Open Data
  • CERN Analysis Preservation
• How I can contribute: learning, teaching, writing, testing, coding
• Where I tweet (if applicable): @tiborsimko