# ESA SOCIS project Announcement **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/esa-socis-project-announcement/242112 "2015-05-28T12:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/esa-socis-project-announcement/242112/1 "2015-05-28T12:44:49Z")
Hey GNU Radio community! Thanks for choosing my project for this year’s ESA Summer of Code in Space. I will implement a POLAR code encoder decoder chain as well as channel construction. I would like to introduce myself a bit today. I am a Master degree student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. My major is focused on Communication at Communications Engineering Lab (CEL). Also, I was a student research assistant at CEL up until the start of ESA SOCIS. During my studies and work I acquired advanced skills in digital signal processing, waveform design and software engineering. My fields of interest are Software-Defined Radio development and system optimization. I got in touch with GNU Radio back in 2012 when I started my Bachelor thesis on LTE signal reception with GNU Radio. The outcome of this thesis is available on Github. I continued working on this project afterwards. During the course of gr-lte development I touched a great variety of different parts of GNU Radio. Firstly adopting and integrating existing blocks into the project. Secondly learning a lot about GNU Radio internals like scheduler specifics, class inheritance structures and VOLK usage. Also, I improved my knowledge to write test code in order to improve code quality. Besides my studies at KIT I did an internship at Ettus R. in 2013/14, fostering my programming skills and deepening my GNU Radio knowledge. During that time I contributed to Ettus’ UHD driver and developed tools for use with GNU Radio. Recently I contributed to GNU Radio by adding a rename capability to its modtool tool. Besides my experience with GNU Radio and thus with C ++ and Python, I also did several smaller projects. That includes closed source projects at university level with Java and Java for Android. I did microcontroller programming in ANSI C and Assembler. This included integration of an IP microcontroller into an existing VHDL project. During the course of the project, I will have access to CEL’s labs and equipment. And Sebastian Koslowski, who is currently with CEL, agreed on mentoring my project. Thus I will always be able to talk to him personally about project progress and pitfalls. I read GNU Radio’s Code of Conduct and understood and agree to it, including the three strikes rule. They are natural to follow and essential for a positive and prospering community. I am looking forward to publish my weekly project updates. I will host my project on Github [1]. In case you are curious about the project goals and haven’t already read my proposal, you can find it on Github too [2]. I am happy to get started with the project now. Stay tuned for weekly updates. In case you have questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to email me. I am grateful to get more input and suggestions on the project. My goal for the upcoming weeks is to implement a encoder decoder chain in Python which shall serve as testcode later on. Cheers Johannes [1] [GitHub - jdemel/gnuradio: GNU Radio](https://github.com/jdemel/gnuradio) [2] [GitHub - jdemel/socis-2015-gr-results: ESA SOCIS 2015 files and information](https://github.com/jdemel/socis-proposal)