cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22266569
Looking for Mentor (for a PhD Candidate) that works with open source and Rust
TLDR: Searching for person holding professor position to officially act as a committee member on a US PhD defense
Hi all,
I’m in a non CS field. I’m doing PhD in hydrology and I’m good at Geospatial Analysis, data analysis, visualization, modeling and such. I really like programming and have been making open source programs, contributing to open source programs and such. And have been learning rust for last 2 years.
For my PhD dissertation I’m doing a project where I’ll be using Rust to make a program with compiled plugin system that can do generalized river related tasks including data analysis and visualization. I have professors in GIS and hydrology to guide those aspects, but I don’t have anyone on software side to ask questions, or to look at my work. I tried emailing some people I have seen with open source projects on GIS+rust, but no response.
I’m ideally looking for someone that holds a professor position for my committee who is good with either rust, GIS related algorithms development, and programming languages. However, it woud also be helpful to just have someone woth knowledge about such things. In either scenario, credit and authorship will be given.
I appreciate any response even telling where i could find someone matching the above description. :)
Edit: I can also provide my previous projects in GitHub, websites and such before you decide in messages.
Why not find the person in your university? You’re not gonna find anyone here. Your university definitely has one and if not your advisor definitely knows where.
You’ve passed prelims, how have you not had this discussion with them?
I’m not from CS related field. Me and my advisor don’t know professors in CS fields, and my university doesn’t have CS grad programs when I looked around. And I need an external professor anyway. My friends that are in CS grad school all do AI/ML related research.