2024 Open Source Research Experience

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The Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) program provides support for undergraduate and graduate students contributing to open source projects and reproducible research efforts. With its dual focus on both increasing open source communities and making computational research efforts reproducible, the OSRE supports a wide variety of projects. In connection with the OSRE, the UCSC OSPO has taken part in the Google Summer of Code as a mentor organization and managed other sponsored programs such as the NSF funded Summer of Reproducibility. Information from past OSRE years can be found here: 2023 and 2022 (final 2022 reports). Mentors interested in participating in the OSRE (including for projects relevant to GSoC and the SoR) can post their project ideas for students to review. Project ideas are short abstracts that provide an overview of the tasks students will accomplish over the summer. See mentor page for more details. Interested Students or other newcomers to open source or reproducibility should review these project ideas and work with mentors to develop a full proposal. Student projects are due by April 4, 2024. See student information page for more details.

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2024 Open Source Research Experience

OSRE News

OSRE 2024

Open Source Research Experience

As last year OSRE 2024 will include mentors across multiple University of California campuses. Project ideas are listed below.

This year will again include the Summer of Reproducibility with research projects around producing and using reproducibility artifacts (see also ctuning.org and sysartifacts). Quite a few conferences are now offering awards for reproducibility artifacts. This encourages authors to produce reproducibility artifacts. There is great potential for using these artifacts not only for validating research results but also as teaching tools in classrooms and as baselines in research labs. Making producing and using reproducibility artifacts easier can significantly accelerate the rate of insights. The Summer of Reproducibility gives summer students the opportunity to help out in this cutting-edge effort and acquire valuable skills related to reproducibility.

Summer of Reproducibility projects do not need to have at least one UC-affliated mentor.

For students

The deadline for contacting mentors and joining the slack channel for the 2024 program has passed.

If you are interested, have a look at our guidelines for students, which includes timelines on when to contact mentors and proposal guidelines and expectations.

New projects for OSRE 2024 will be published by the end of February. Students can begin reaching out to mentors after February 22, 2024. Proposals are due April 2.

Students interested in applying to any of our projects should join our Slack channel before March 20. Email OSRE Admins to request an invitation.

You can also use our Gitter channel for general questions before reaching out to mentors. https://gitter.im/uc_ospo-osre/community

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Note that this channel is reviewed by the org admin periodically and meant for general organizational questions.

Due to the open source nature of all OSRE projects, contributions are welcome from students or other newcomers from anywhere in the world. Please note that you must have work authorization in your country of residence to take part in this program. Please contact ospo-info-group@ucsc.edu if you have any questions about your eligibility.

We typically support the work of undergraduate students; however graduate students may also apply to work on more advanced project ideas. Please check out the project ideas page and contact the mentor if you have questions.

Student pages

Go to last year’s student pages

We are asking OSRE 2024 students and contributors to share their progress on a regular basis. We are excited to be able to highlight their work on this website and in events such as our Open Source Symposium. This blog post contains instructions on how to start highlighting contributor work with blog posts, also known as “student pages”. And here they are:

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For projects and mentors

The UCSC OSPO is looking for mentors to be part of our 2024 Open Source Research Experience Program (OSRE), which this year also includes a new initiative – the Summer of Reproducibility (SoR). Please read the FAQ for Mentors and, if interested in participating, the instructions for posting projects.

While typical OSRE supported projects require mentors who are connected to University of California-based open source projects, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation, the Summer of Reproducibility allows us to also support US-based mentors interested in research projects related to the creation and usage of reproducibilty artifacts.

The goal of OSRE 2024 is to increase student capabilities in working in open source projects and creating reproducible artifacts, as well as add productive open source contributors and promote open source and reproducibility throughout the UC system and beyond.

The program team at UCSC OSPO values diversity and inclusion in all our projects. We invite mentors from groups traditionally excluded in computer science/open source communities to participate in this program.

Why should you be an OSRE mentor?

If you could use undergraduate research assistance over the summer with your on-going research, this is a great opportunity to get matched to top students. Like Google Summer of Code, the OSRE allows the mentors to choose the students they want to work with based on an interactive and iterative proposal process. The proposal process provides mentors the opportunity to select someone they want to work with who will benefit their project and research.

Who can be a mentor?

Your project needs to

  • EITHER have at least one mentor affiliated with one of the University of California campuses or associated DOE national labs
  • OR have some connection to producing or using reproducibility artifacts.

For University of California (UC) projects: Any UC-affiliated faculty, researchers or graduate students working on projects that are or will ultimately be part of an open source community/ecosystem.

For Summer of Reproducibility (SoR) projects: Researchers and faculty from any US-based organization looking to support the open source production or use of reproducibility artifacts.

All software created as part of an OSRE project must be released as free and open source under a license that is both approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and recognized as free by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

For more details, please see the FAQ for Mentors and the instructions for posting projects.

For sponsors

Is your organization looking to better utilize open source and want to support projects that directly benefit your work?

Does your company want to strengthen the talent pipeline able to work on technologies essential to your organization’s success?

Do you want to collaborate with innovative open source projects being developed by University of California researchers?

The UC Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) offers your organization the chance to participate in projects that can help your development cycles run faster, benefit from wide collaborations, and help support workforce development in domains your organization needs.

To become a sponsor, fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form. You will be asked to indicate the level of sponsorship you would like to fund and the open source projects you are most interested in engaging with.

Benefits of sponsorship

  • Collaborating on innovative project that are of strategic interest to your industry;
  • Supporting the teaching of open source techniques to a wide range of student contributors;
  • Interacting with the next generation of open source leaders and up and coming talent; and
  • Recognition as an OSRE Sponsor at the Open Source Research Symposium (Fall 2024)

OSRE Sponsor Levels

LevelAmount
Bronze$3,750 (covers 50% of one student stipend for summer)
Silver$7,500 (covers one student full-time for summer)
Gold$15,000 (covers two students full-time for summer)
Table: OSRE 2024 Sponsorship Levels

Becoming a Sponsor

Becoming a sponsor is easy! Fill out the Sponsorship Interest Form or reach out to the OSRE Admins by April 20. Information requested by the form include: name of contact person, level of sponsorship, and projects you are most interested in (if applicable.) The OSRE Admins will follow up with next steps for finalizing the sponsorship process.

Feb 6Priority deadline for posting projects to be considered in the OSPO’s GSoC mentor organization application
Feb 22Deadline for mentors posting projects for OSRE/SoR consideration
Feb 22Accepted Mentor Organizations announced by GSoC - OSPO Accepted!
Feb 22 - Apr 2Mentors help candidates improving their applications, applications are submitted
Mar 20Deadline for students to join Slack channel (a student proposal requirement – do so as early as possible)
Apr 2Student proposal deadline
Apr 3 - 22Mentors evaluate and rank student proposals
Apr 24Student proposal rankings completed by Org Admins
May 1Accepted student proposals announced
May 2 - May 28Community Bonding / Onboarding
June - August*OSRE participants work on projects / includes one mid-term evaluation
*Project start and end dates are flexible but need to be OK’d with Mentor and Org Admin
Table: OSRE 2024 Timeline

2024 Projects

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Project Topics

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Administration

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Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz

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Aldrin Montana

PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz

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Austin Rovinski

Assistant Professor, New York University

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Bin Dong

Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Cindy Rubio González

Associate Professor, UC Davis

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Colleen Josephson

Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz

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Dan Bryce

Fellow, Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC.

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David Lee

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

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Dustin Richmond

Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz

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Emily Lovell

OSPO Incubator Fellow, UC Santa Cruz

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Hao-Nan Zhu

Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis

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Houjun Tang

Computer Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Indira Iyer

Head of Customer Success and Outreach

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Jack Luar

Student at National University of Singapore

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Jean Luca Bez

Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Jesse Cirimelli-Low

Ph.D. Student, UC Santa Cruz

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John Wu

Senior Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Jose Renau

Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Department Chair

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Kiran Deol

Undergraduate at the University of Alberta

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Leilani H. Gilpin

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

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Matt Liberty

VP R&D Precision Innovations & Visiting Scholar UCSD

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Oskar Elek

OSPO Incubator Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz

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Sakshi Garg

Ph.D. Student, UC Santa Cruz

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Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director of OSPO, Executive Director of CROSS, UC Santa Cruz

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Tim Fallon

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego

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Tyler Sheaves

PhD Student at UC Davis

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Vitor Bandeira

Cloud and DevOps Architect at Precision Innovations & Visiting Scholar UCSD & PhD Candidate UFRGS

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Ziheng Duan

Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine

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Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner

Research Scientist, Intel Labs

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Anjus George

HPC Storage R&D staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Ashutosh Srivastava

PhD Student, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Ayse Coskun

Interim Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor (ECE, SE); Director, Center for Information and Systems

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Ben Greenman

PI at the University of Utah

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Bogdan "Bo" Stoica

PhD Student, University of Chicago

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Cindy Rubio González

Associate Professor, UC Davis

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Dan Bryce

Fellow, Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC.

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Daniar H. Kurniawan

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

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David Koop

Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University

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Flavio Castro

Systems Developer, Argonne National Laboratory

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Fraida Fund

Research Assistant Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Georg Carle

Full Professor, Technical University of Munich

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Hao-Nan Zhu

Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis

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Haryadi S. Gunawi

Associate Professor, University of Chicago

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In Kee Kim

Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

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João Felipe Pimentel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Northern Arizona University

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Joaquin Chung

Research Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

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John Bent

Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Juliana Freire

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science at NYU

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Junchen Jiang

Assitant Professor, University of Chicago

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Kate Keahey

Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago

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Kexin Pei

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago

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Luke Rasmussen

Senior Clinical Research Associate, Northwestern University

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Mark Powers

Research Software Engineer at the University of Chicago

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Meng Wang

PhD Student, University of Chicago

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Miao YU

Ph.D. Student, The Ohio State University

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Michael Sherman

Research Software Engineer at the University of Chicago

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Raül Sirvent

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Ray Andrew Sinurat

PhD Student, University of Chicago

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Ruidan Li

Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago

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Sandeep Madireddy

Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory

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Sascha Hunold

Associate Professor, Technical University of Vienna

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Sebastian Gallenmüller

PostDoc, Technical University of Munich

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Swami Sundararaman

Senior Manager, IBM

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Tanu Malik

Associate Professor for Databases, High Performance and Scientific Computing, Systems Development

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Tim Fallon

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego

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Vijay Chidambaram

Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

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Yang Wang

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

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Yeonju Ro

Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Austin

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Yuyang (Roy) Huang

Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago

2024 Contributors

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Haoling (Henry) Zhou

Senior student in computer science

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Acheme Christopher Acheme

PhD Student at Clemson University

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Aditya Narayan

CS Undergraduate, Amity Noida

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Ahmed Hassan Falah

Computer and Communications student

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Archit Dabral

Mathematics and Computing Student at IIT BHU

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Arya Sarkar

Founding Engineer @ Docunexus Inc.

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Ashwin Bardhwaj

Undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science student at University of California, Berkeley

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Audrey Ostrom

Alumni of UC Santa Cruz

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Aviral Kaintura

Student at National Forensic Sciences University, Delhi Campus

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Ayush Sharma

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Jiajun Mao

OSRE 2024 Participant/Researcher

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Joanna Cheng

Student at Johns Hopkins University

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Joel Tony

Computer Science Junior at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani

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Kilian Warmuth

M.Sc. student at Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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Klaus Kraßnitzer

Master’s student, TU Wien

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Kyrillos Ishak

Computer Engineering student

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Lihaowen (Jayce) Zhu

Master Student, University of Chicago

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Mahdi Banisharifdehkordi

Ph.D. student in Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence

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Martin L. Putra

Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago

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Mohit Goyal

Student at National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

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Mrigank Pawagi

Mathematics and Computing Student at the Indian Institute of Science

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Nicole Brewer

OSPO Summer of Reproducibility Fellow

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Nikhil Wani

Graduate, University of Southern California (USC)

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Palaniappan R

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Peiran Qin

Pre-Doctoral. Student, University of Chicago

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Qianru Zhang

University of Waterloo Graduate

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Student at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung

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Sarthak Chowdhary(Shaburu)

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Shaivi Malik

Computer Science and Engineering student

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Shuang Liang

Undergraduate Student, The Ohio State University

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Triveni Gurram

Graduate Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University

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Ujjwal Shekhar

Undergraduate Computer Science student at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

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William Nixon

Student at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bandung

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Xikang Song

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Yash Kumar

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