Id like to apply to 10 Universities! At the end of the post, youll find a list of univ Ive shortlisted! Please leave remarks on what you think! Also, if Ive missed a Univ, please mention it and why ! Area of Interest: Machine Learning and AI ( Anyone with similar interests please please please do connect!! ) GRE : 329 (Q 170, V 159, AWA 4) TOEFL : coming sunday! (hope to get over 100) 10th: 90% ICSE 2005 12th: 62% CBSE 2007 B.Tech - Computer Science CGPA 8.39 Internships : Mozilla - Documentation, Integration of Yahoo Toolbar Mozilla - Development Steel Authority of India - Employee Complain Ticketing system Airports Authority of India - Document Management System Vellicate Tech - Website Development Times Internet Limited - Search Relevance on shopping.indiatimes Projects in College: PLC for a nuclear reactor (IGCAR funded project) Search Relevance (B.Tech thesis) Work Exp from 2013 onwards (1 year + ) 10 Projects on Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems using Apache Solr, Apache Lucene, Apache Hadoop, Apache Mahout, Apache Storm, Apache Spark and various other technologies. Extra CourseWork: Coursera: Machine Learning - Stanford Introduction to Recommendation Systems - University of Minnesota Coding the matrix (Linear Algebra) - Brown Univ Research Method - London Univ Computing for Data Analysis (R) - John Hopkins edX Introduction to Probability - MIT The Analytics Edge - MIT Big Data and Social Physics - MIT Independent Projects - Sentiment Analysis - Kaggle Learning from Disaster ( predicting survivors on the titanic) - Kaggle LOR: 3 from college (good) 1 from manager (VERY GOOD) SOP will be good Publications: GPU Clusters for High Performance Computing - Local Univ Paper Submission to MIREX 2014 - International Music Information Retrieval Exchange (Audio Similarity Competition) Social Service: NSS AIDS Awareness Programs Education awareness programs Road Safety Campaigns Extra - cur Organized Dept Fest Treasurer - Association of Computer Engineers ( College) Director of an Entrepreneurial Venture in Food retailing Univs Im looking at in no particular order : (still going through the shortlisting process) University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Maryland at College Park Columbia University, New York University of Texas at Austin Univ of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) University of Michigan at Ann Arbor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stanford University, Palo Alto University of California Berkeley Princeton University University of California - San Diego (UCSD) Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech) MIT Texas A & M University - College Station (TAMU) Purdue University, West Lafayette Harvard University University of Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University Thank you for your time and candid feedback!
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:47:09 +0000
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