Looking for Mentor (for a PhD Candidate) that works with open source and Rust

TLDR: Searching for person holding professor position to officially act as a committee member on a US PhD defense

Hi all,

I'm in a non CS field. I'm doing PhD in hydrology and I'm good at Geospatial Analysis, data analysis, visualization, modeling and such. I really like programming and have been making open source programs, contributing to open source programs and such. And have been learning rust for last 2 years.

For my PhD dissertation I'm doing a project where I'll be using Rust to make a program with compiled plugin system that can do generalized river related tasks including data analysis and visualization. I have professors in GIS and hydrology to guide those aspects, but I don't have anyone on software side to ask questions, or to look at my work. I tried emailing some people I have seen with open source projects on GIS+rust, but no response.

I'm ideally looking for someone that holds a professor position for my committee who is good with either rust, GIS related algorithms development, and programming languages. However, it woud also be helpful to just have someone woth knowledge about such things. In either scenario, credit and authorship will be given.

I appreciate any response even telling where i could find someone matching the above description. :)

Edit: I can also provide my previous projects in GitHub, websites and such before you decide in messages.

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd just use the #rust IRC channel on libera.chat personally.

Edit: Maybe for the basics/boilerplate you could start with ChatGPT or another generative AI. Then if you have a specific question you could ask the enthusiasts on the IRC channel. IRC people are a lot more helpful than discord people in my experience.

Should also mention there is no substitute for a good textbook so maybe getting a PDF of an Intro to Rust type book would be a good idea as well.