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

[Ashim Bhattarai]

This is really sad indeed. I did not know Raghav personally, but I got to
know the engineer in him through his work with the Scikit Learn project.
Almost every time I looked up an issue or tried to find a PR for a lacking
feature, there he was, either working on it himself or starting a
discussion and motivating others to work on it. His enthusiasm and
dedication to improving Scikit Learn was, and will remain, an inspiration
for all contributors.The community has no doubt lost a talented engineer
and I cannot even begin to imagine the loss for those he touched
personally. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Brown J.B. via scikit-learn <
scikit-learn at python.org> wrote:

> 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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