• Instructions to student: achieving a good proposal
• A list of topics for a Google summer of code (GSOC) 2014
• Add scipy.sparse matrix support to the Decision Tree Implementation
• Locality sensitive Hashing
• Online Low Rank Matrix Completion
• Robust PCA
• Generalized Additive Models
• Coordinated descent in linear models beyond squared loss (eg Logistic)
• Improve GMM
• Possible mentors