GSoC 2026 Applicant Introduction — Cheela Akhil

[cheelaakhil]

Hi ArviZ community! 👋 I'm Cheela Akhil, a 3rd year BTech student from Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Hyderabad, India.

I'm applying for GSoC 2026 with ArviZ under NumFOCUS for the Feature Parity for ArviZ-Plots project (plot_ppc, plot_rank, plot_rank_ecdf, plot_parallel).

My skills: Python, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Matplotlib. GitHub: github.com/cheelaakhil

I've already submitted PR #465 fixing the matplotlib.style.core deprecation issue (#453). Looking forward to contributing more!

[OriolAbril]

You should read https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/wiki/GSoC-2026-projects carefully. The feature parity project was last year's project idea. This year it is not available because it makes no sense; as you'll see if you look at the docs, all the plots you mention have already been implemented.

[cheelaakhil]

Thank you for the clarification @OriolAbril! I apologize for the confusion — I should have read the wiki more carefully before posting. I can see now that the only available project this year is the DevOps improvement and standardization project. I'm currently working on PR #2561 to get familiar with the codebase and I'm interested in learning more about the DevOps project. I'll study the wiki carefully and reach out if I have questions.

[cheelaakhil]

Thank you @aloctavodia for merging PR #2561! Really happy about my first merged contribution. I'll keep contributing and learning more about the codebase.

[Shrushti2006]

Hi ArviZ community! 👋

I'm a 2nd year BTech student from DYP Agricultural and Technical University, Talsande, India.

I'm really interested in contributing to open source and have a strong interest in machine learning. I have basic experience with Python and am currently learning libraries like NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.

I would love some guidance on how to get started with contributing to ArviZ. Could you please suggest beginner-friendly issues or areas (like documentation or small bugs) where I can begin?

Thank you for your time and support! Looking forward to contributing 😊