[scikit-learn] Remembering Raghav, our friend, and a scikit-learn contributor

[Brown J.B.]

This is truly, truly sad news.
Leaving the home country you grew up in to find your way in a new language
and culture takes considerable effort, and to thrive at it takes even more
effort.
He was to be commended for that.

I think many of us knew of his enthusiasm for the project and benefited
greatly from it.
May his family and friends know of his contribution, and may he rest
peacefully.

J.B. Brown

2017-10-06 21:04 GMT+09:00 Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org>:

> Raghav was a core contributor to scikit-learn. Venkat Raghav Rajagopalan,
> or @raghavrv  -as we knew him- appeared out of the blue and started
> contributing early 2015. From Chennai, he was helping us make scikit-learn
> a better library. As often in open source, he was working with people that
> he had never met in person, to improve a tool used by the whole world. He
> successfully completed a Google summer of code for the project that year,
> and then was hired as a full time engineer to work on the project in Paris.
> Raghav was excited to join the scikit-learn team. When he became core
> contributor, in 2016 he said that it was a highlight of his year.
>
> In Paris, we got to know him and enjoy him. Raghav was a very enthusiastic
> and easygoing person. It was a delight to have him around. For
> scikit-learn, he was a huge driver. He tackled a large number of issues,
> include tedious and difficult ones such as revamping our cross-validation
> API, multiple-metrics support in grid-search, or 32bit support in various
> models.
>
> Raghav had left India to live an adventure in a new culture. Curiosity and
> goal-driven, he had found his own way. He was growing fast, moving from
> student to expert, on his way to a bright future.
>
> Raghav passed away a month ago. We have been in shock and sorrow here in
> Paris. He will be deeply missed.
>
> Gael Varoquaux and Alexandre Gramfort
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