Request for Account Recovery and Email Update for GitHub Account “arnab37”

[Arbos1990]

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Hi,

My name is Arnab Bose. I created a GitHub account a few years ago while I was a graduate student at North Carolina State University, primarily for publication-related purposes. The account link is: [arnab37 (Arnab Bose) · GitHub] (https://github.com/arnab37).

The account was registered under my university email ID ([email protected]), which is now permanently inactive. Unfortunately, I have also forgotten the password, as I have not accessed the account for several years. At the time, the account may have been linked to my old U.S. phone number, which is also inactive since I relocated to India about a year ago.

The issue is that I had uploaded several codes related to my Ph.D. research on that account. One of my published papers cites a code originally uploaded there: “Predicting Total Electron-Ionization Cross Sections and GC–MS Calibration Factors Using Machine Learning” — The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. (Link: [Predicting Total Electron-Ionization Cross Sections and GC–MS Calibration Factors Using Machine Learning | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A] (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06308)). The GitHub account name (“arnab37”) is explicitly mentioned in the publication.

Over the years, my Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Phillip R. Westmoreland (Chemical Engineering, NC State University), and I have identified a few errors in the original uploaded files. We are now working on corrections and further developments.

Given this situation, I kindly request that the email ID associated with the GitHub account be changed to [email protected], which belongs to Dr. Westmoreland. Unlike student email addresses, his account will remain permanently active and accessible.

I have copied Dr. Westmoreland in this email. Please feel free to contact either of us if you’d like to schedule a brief call (via Google Meet or Zoom) to verify any details.

I have created the current GitHub account with [email protected], for my post-PhD work. I don't want to merge these two accounts.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Arnab Bose

[queenofcorgis]

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