[MENTEE] Abhay Lejith

[Abhay-Lejith]

Mentee:

Abhay Lejith (he/him)
Project: Adding support for categorical features

Mentor(s):

@fkiraly @yarnabrina @kirilral

Why did you join sktime's mentorship program?
I am interested in and would like to further explore machine learning. Working in sktime will help me expand my knowledge in the field of time-series forecasting. I also wish to gain experience working in a professional environment. sktime having an active and friendly community makes it perfect to be my entry point into open source.

What topics are you working on?

Currently I am working on issues with the LabelEncoder as it will be a pre-requisite for supporting categorical features in sktime.
sktime/sktime#6109
sktime/sktime#6458

What are your learning goals?
Gain a better understanding of time-series forecasting.
Become proficient in python and data science libraries.
Learn the best practices for writing clean structured code as well as tests.

What's next for you after the mentorship program?

I would like to continue contributing to open source. Stick around to solve issues in sktime and also explore other open source orgs.