# My Introduction - Tharun Kumar V

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Welcome @TharunKumar2106 👋

Make sure to spend time looking at all the data and tools to come up with new investigations. Looking at previous studies is quite useful too.

Previous work: [NASA OSDR-GeneLab Enabled Publications, Pre-Prints, Student Theses - Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=8T1QuYEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)  
Data dashboard (at a glance): [NASA OSDR Biological Data and Visualization Portal](https://visualization.genelab.nasa.gov/data/)  
Search portal: [NASA OSDR: Open Science for Life in Space](https://osdr.nasa.gov/bio/repo/)  
BioData API: [https://visualization.osdr.nasa.gov/biodata/api/](https://visualization.osdr.nasa.gov/biodata/api/)  
Our code on GitHub: [OpenScienceDataRepo · GitHub](https://github.com/OpenScienceDataRepo)  
These and all quick links to data/tools/APIs, etc are here: [About - Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups](https://awg.osdr.space/about)

Worth saying up front: OSDR holds space _biology_ and health data, so exoplanet spectra sit outside what we host, ie outside the domain of our community, usually.

Thats said though, your skill set transfers directly 🙂 Damagescope is segmentation and classification on remote sensing imagery, and we have real bioimaging and microscopy data waiting for people who build end-to-end. Search the dashboard or portal for the imaging assays and see what you think. On the LLM side, take a look at the BioData API and the GitHub repos, since getting models to reason over study metadata is an open problem we care about.

For the AI/ML AWG, reach out to @vaishnavi.nagesh, @james.casaletto, introduce yourself, and get to the next monthly meeting. 2nd wednesday of the month, iirc

Pick a project from the [master table](https://awg.osdr.space/t/how-to-be-involved-master-table-of-open-sub-group-projects/1233/40) and find the meeting on the [calendar](https://awg.osdr.space/upcoming-events) (log in first).

Cheers,  
-Ryan

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