Hi, I am Varun Mehrishi, a third year engineering student from Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), India. I am currently pursuing Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. I am most comfortable with C++(STL) and Python, and also follow the new and experimental features introduced in the new standards with additional help of cppcon and BoostCon. I also have interests in Data Science, Machine Learning. I wish to participate and contribute to Boost.uBLAS. I've read the project idea and description from the suggested GSoC project proposals. I am really interested in working on the project "Project 1 : Add statistics and machine learning functions" which is focused on extending Boost.uBLAS functionality towards statistics/ML. I have implemented a basic template version of the mentioned Programming Competency Test (basic-matrix-lib https://github.com/varunmehrishi/basic-matrix-lib) and used C++14 generic lambdas wherever necessary. Your feedback and suggestions will be extremely valuable as they will help me improve my implementation and add more functionality. Looking forward to your guidance -- With warm regards, Varun Mehrishi GSoC 2018 Aspirant