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About us
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PyBADS is an open-source Python software for sample-efficient optimization.

The development of PyBADS has been supported by the Academy of Finland Flagship programme: `Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI <https://fcai.fi/>`_.


Development team
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PyBADS is actively developed mainly by members of `Luigi Acerbi's research group <https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/machine-and-human-intelligence>`_ at the University of Helsinki.

Core developers
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Active developers, in order of joining:

- `Luigi Acerbi <https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/machine-and-human-intelligence/people#section-99451>`_, University of Helsinki
- `Gurjeet Singh <https://gurjeetsinghsangra.github.io/academic/>`_, University of Geneva

Development team alumni
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This section will list developers who have made important contributions in the past, but are no longer contributing actively.


Join the team
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If you are interested in contributing to PyBADS please see the :doc:`instructions for developers and contributors <development>` for general development guidelines. We welcome pull requests, bug reports, feature requests, etc. For other opportunities to work with us please see the homepage for the `Machine and Human Intelligence Group <https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/machine-and-human-intelligence>`_, or contact the lab's Principal Investigator at luigi.acerbi@helsinki.fi.