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Kindly review my SOP. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Naman Kumar MS in ROBOTICS “ “ As a child, toys like Remote Controlled Car always fascinated me and watching high-tech movies instills me with a great desire and passion of working in the direction of developing such technology in reality. I believe that there is a great scope in the field of Robotics and I want to devote my life to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence because of my love and interest in it. The future belongs to Robots working like human beings and as ever powerful sensors and algorithms increase the scope of robotics, I am very excited to be a part of this revolution and this determination has motivated me to apply for a Master’s in Robotics in Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. When I first attended a conference on Robotics in my High School, I was very fascinated by the research and work going on in this field. It was out of this interest that I decided to pursue Electronics Engineering as my field of study for my undergraduate. During my initial semesters, subjects like Mechatronics and C programming was my first flavor of my dream field. After my college started, I was selected in the Robotics Club of my University which provided me a great platform to work on different projects and participate in prestigious national Robotics Competitions. I secured second position in a prestigious national level Image Processing competition at IIT Madras and a third position in an autonomous robotics competition at IIT Kanpur. I achieved positions in top three in many other National level Robotics competitions also. My passion for Robotics helped me in coming up with a paper in a conference in India. To further pursue my interest in the field of Robotics and related fields, I underwent training at Embex Technologies, India for 2 months in Embedded Systems, Arm Processors (LPC 214x series), PCB Designing and Basic Labview. It was because of my devotion, knowledge and interest that I got a chance to go for a 6 months research internship at LEMS, Brown University, USA under Prof. Benjamin Kimia in the field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning during my 6th semester. I worked on Contour Extraction and then integrated it with Supervised Learning using different features like Length, Contrast and Histogram Distances to come up with great results which also helped me in submitting a paper for CVPR IEEE Conference 2013. I strongly believe that fields like Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence can have great applications in Robotics. This internship also gave me a chance to attend CVPR 2012 conference at Providence, Rhode Island which was a life time experience. I also did an internship in a startup “dsyn.com” for 2 months to get a feel of the corporate world. Apart from working in my dream field of Robotics, I also actively participate in Social Work and I am an active member of 2 NGO’s. I teach poor children and create awareness about diseases like AIDS and Malaria. I also help in making them aware of their rights and duties. I am also a member of PEC Cricket Team and have also captained my school cricket team and the academy team which helped me in gaining the quality of Leadership. I also participate in many athletic events like 50m, 100m race and marathon to keep myself physically fit. During 4th, 5th and 7th semesters, I have organized many workshops in our college related to Robotics and Image Processing in which 60 students participated on average. The various projects that I’ve been involved with and the challenges that I have faced on the way have reinforced my belief that it is only in the continued pursuit of the answer, that we unveil the real questions of the problem. I am also able to appreciate the amount of work going in the field of Robotics and the positive effect it can have on our future. I really want to be a part of it and that is why, I want to specialize and apply for Master’s program in the field of Robotics. As my first choice, I want to enroll as a Master student in the Robotics Institute- Carnegie Mellon University because of the gamut of research being done here and quality of courses taught here are also exceptional. In this program, I plan to study further about Robotics and related fields. I am confident that my sound technical background and enthusiasm for Robotics coupled with the stimulating environment and the state-of-the-art-infrastructure at CMU will catalyze my learning process and provide me with the right impetus to fulfill my dreams.

Hello everybody, I want to pursue MS in Robotics and I am pasting my SOP below. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Naman Kumar MS in ROBOTICS “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs. I consider myself lucky that I have found out what I believe is great work. As a child, toys like Remote Controlled Car always fascinated me and when I grew up, I got a chance to attend couple of conferences in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence during High School and I was so motivated by those conferences and the work and research going on in this field that I decided to pursue my Undergraduate in the field of Electronics Engineering. It was during the work and projects done during my Undergraduate that strengthened my belief about devoting my life to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. The future belongs to Robots working like human being and I will do anything to be a part of that Revolution and this has motivated me to pursue my further studies in this field. During my Undergraduate, I was able to create a very good base by studying different electronics subjects like 8051 Microcontroller and 8085 Microprocessor, Digital Signal Processing, Virtual Instrumentation and many more. I was able to attain a very good knowledge of these subjects which also helped me in securing a grade of 9.6 out of 10 and helped me in maintaining my position in top 5.Apart from gaining theoretical knowledge of these subjects, there were many practical projects like Microcontroller based Fire Detector, Obstacle, 8051 Microcontroller based projects, Shape Recognition and Face Recognition using Matlab, Voice Recognition using Matlab and many more. These projects helped me in applying theoretical knowledge and helped in gaining a practical exposure. Apart from my academic curriculum, I was a very active member of Robotics Society of my college, worked on many projects and won many national level Robotics competitions throughout the country. I secured second position in an Image Processing competition and a third position in an autonomous robotics competition. I was in top three in many other Robotics competitions also. I am also the member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. I have organized many workshops in our college related to Robotics and Image Processing. Also, I was able to publish a paper in a conference in India. Apart from working on Technical projects as mentioned above, I have also worked on an Entrepreneur project related to Home to Home and Night Car Service and a Social project on Rag pickers. I also got a chance to go for a 6 months internship in the field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Brown University, USA. This internship not only helped me in my intellectual growth but I also got a chance to attend international conferences like CVPR – 2012(Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). It was a life time experience. Apart from this internship, I also did an internship at Embex Technologies, India where I worked on Arm Processors, PCB Designing and Labview. I did a couple of months internship in a startup Company to gain an exposure of the corporate world. As far as extra-curricular activities are concerned, I am a member of PEC Cricket Team and have played many tournaments throughout the nation. I have also captained many teams which helped me in gaining the quality of Leadership. I have also participated in many athletic events like 50m, 100m race and won couple of times. I have also organized many events during the cultural or technical festivals of our college. I participate in Social Work by teaching poor children and by creating awareness about diseases like AIDS and Malaria. I also help in making them aware of their rights and duties. As we all know, CMU – Robotics Institute is one of the best institutes in the world in the field of Robotics. It has one of the most experienced faculties and a great research base. I have heard lot of praise about it from my seniors who have studied there. The research going on in the Robotics Department is of the highest quality and I would love to be a part of it. I would greatly benefit from this program and hope that it will be a symbiotic relation.