Five Unikraft Projects Selected at Google Summer of Code 2025

It is our pleasure to announce that 5 Unikraft projects are part of Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC'25).

It is our pleasure to announce that 5 Unikraft projects are part of Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC'25) 🚀 This is a continuation of the 5 Unikraft projects that took part in GSoC'23, and the 5 Unikraft projects that took part in GSoC'24.

For GSoC'25, we presented a diverse list of project ideas. We've had 39 applications (a record number), out of which 5 were selected and are currently funded for GSoC'25.

The 5 applicants, and their projects are:

Prasoon Kumar from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, India

• Project: Expanding the Unikraft Software Support Ecosystem
• Mentors: Răzvan Vîrtan, Răzvan Deaconescu

Ashirvad Mohanty from Odisha University of Technology and Research in Bhubaneswar, India

• Project: Fine-Tuning Unikraft’s Performance
• Mentors: Hugo Lefeuvre, Ștefan Jumărea

Abolfazl Soltani from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Project: Update Newlib and Pthread-embedded Libraries
• Mentors: Ștefan Jumărea, Cezar Crăciunoiu

Shashank Srivastava from GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management in Greater Noida, India

• Project: Testing Framework for Unikraft Builds
• Mentors: Răzvan Deaconescu, Răzvan Vîrtan

Abhinav Kumar from Netaji Subhash University of Technology in Delhi, India

• Project: Updating Unikraft Application Libraries
• Mentors: Cezar Crăciunoiu, Răzvan Deaconescu

Congratulations Prasoon, Ashirvad, Abolfazl, Shashank, Abhinav! 🥳 Let's get hacking! 🛠️