QSoC 2024: Announcing Our Interns!

The inaugural Qdrant Summer of Code (QSoC) program has announced the selection of two interns, Jishan Bhattacharya and Celine Hoang, to work on projects aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the Qdrant platform. Jishan will implement a dimension reduction algorithm in Rust, compile it to WebAssembly (WASM), and integrate it into the Qdrant Web UI, which is expected to improve visualization efficiency and handle larger data sets. Celine will focus on porting advanced ranking models, such as Sentence Transformers, ColBERT, and BGE, to the ONNX format, thereby increasing the platform's versatility in managing complex ranking tasks essential for recommendation engines and search functionalities. The program is eager to collaborate with these interns and anticipates their contributions to the development of the Qdrant project.