Hannah Havel - HS3 Support for Combine: Provide HS3 support for the Combine statistical analysis tool.

• Hannah Grace Havel (Princeton University (US))

**Mentors:** Massimiliano Galli, Nick Smith

Oleksii Hrechykha - Completing an Array-API compliant Ragged library

• Oleksii Hrechykha (IRIS-HEP)

**Mentors:** Ianna Osborne

Rūta Lomsargytė - LLM/co-pilot project focused on support for use of CMS/HEP analysis tools

• Ruta Lomsargyte (Vilnius University (LT))

**Mentors:** David Lange, Peter Elmer

Roman Petrov - Developing a Pythonic tool for smoothing histograms

• Roman Petrov

**Mentors:** Mohamed Aly, Alex Held, Matthew Feickert

Patrikas Styra - Backend update of the AlCaVal framework for validation of calibration and alignment conditions (#9 on CMS Twiki)

• Patrikas Styra (Vilnius University (LT))

**Mentors:** Andrea Perrota, Atanu Pathak, Matheus Macedo

Arvind Tawker - Creating ML Templates for HEP

• Arvind Tawker (University of California Davis (US))

**Mentors:** Liv Vage