DeepChem Minutes 4/14/2022

DeepChem Minutes

India/Asia/Pacific Call

Date: April 14th, 2022

Attendees: Bharath, Peter, Anshuman, Vincent, Shai, Arun

Summary:

Bharath has been primarily working with students this week.

Vincent is a PhD student who is interested in working on equivariant networks in DeepChem.

Peter has been reading through GSoC draft proposals.

Anshuman has been working on his GSoC proposal and has gotten feedback from mentors and has been improving his proposal.

Shai has also been working on GSoC and has been working towards making a tutorial for deepqmc.

Arun has been working to implement DimeNet+ in pytorch and hopes to have a PR up for review this week.

We used the remaining time to answer student questions

Americas/Europe/Africa/Middle East

Date: April 15th, 2022

Attendees: Bharath, Tom, Tony, Stanley, Anshuman, Manas, Jose, Sherif, Mahdi, Aryan

Summary:

Bharath gave the same update as previously,

Abhishek has been working with students on GSoC. He has been working to understand multi-GPU training candidates.

Anshuman has been incorporating feedback from mentors on his proposal.

Aryan has also been working on GSoC.

Jose has also been working on his GSoC proposal and just submitted his proposal.

Mahdi has been experimenting with different containers to get protein bert working.

Manas has been working on his GSoC proposal. He has also been working on random hyperparameter search and kwargs arguments.

Stanley has been working to stabilize his cluster hardware and has been working with Mahdi on protein bert.

Tom has been working with labdao.

Tony has put up a PR for the position frequency matrix featurizer and has been facing an issue with biopython imports.

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