[PRE REVIEW]: DiffeRT2d: A Differentiable Ray Tracing Python Framework for Radio Propagation

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Submitting author: @jeertmans (Jérome Eertmans)
Repository: https://github.com/jeertmans/DiffeRT2d
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Editor: @danielskatz
Reviewers: @idoby, @roth-jakob
Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.23919/EuCAP60739.2024.10501570 is OK
- 10.1109/TAP.2014.2323961 is OK
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2453991 is OK
- 10.23919/EuCAP57121.2023.10132934 is OK
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0260060 is OK

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- No DOI given, and none found for title: Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization
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- No DOI given, and none found for title: Advanced Radio Channel Simulator
- 10.1109/gcwkshps58843.2023.10465179 may be a valid DOI for title: Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Pr...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Hetero...

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   277	Jérome Eertmans
    36	pre-commit-ci[bot]
     9	dependabot[bot]
     2	ImgBotApp

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1243

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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[idoby]

@danielskatz Hey, this came up in my GitHub feed and seems cool. I'd like to be a reviewer if possible.

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👋 @idoby - thanks - I'll go ahead and assign you, and I'll also assign myself as editor, then look for at least one more reviewer.

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@editorialbot assign me as editor

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👋 @jeertmans - thanks for your submission.

Can you please suggest a few potential reviewers, optionally from the list of people that have already agreed to review. If you know a potential reviewer's GitHub username, then please mention it here in this thread (without tagging it with an @).

[jeertmans]

Hello @danielskatz, sure!
According to this list, I think the following users might be relevant reviewers:

• LyceanEM
• klb2
• thippesha-d

[danielskatz]

👋 @LyceanEM - Would you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

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👋 @klb2 - Would you be willing to review this JOSS submission?

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👋 @roth-jakob, @hawkinsp, and @wsmoses - Given the JAX commonality here with the paper we just finished, I wonder if any of you would be interested in reviewing this submission?

[roth-jakob]

I would be happy to review!

[danielskatz]

Thanks @roth-jakob - I'll add you to the reviewer list, and I think we'll go ahead and start this with two reviewers

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OK, I've started the review over in #6915.