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Sorry to be such a burden !! I redid sm parts and saw through his current research project and pointed exactly what i want to pursue. And tried to cut down the extraneous details of projects and showed how it fits to my MS ... any further suggestion ?? ----------------------------------------- With the abundance of data available online to us, ‘Search’ has become the most operation, to gather information. Current search techniques are prominently keyword based and they use crawling and indexing techniques to retrieve the data. The next logical step to increase efficiency of the search engines is to improve both how data is stored and the searching algorithms. My motivation to pursue Master of Science in Database and Information Systems at Xyz University stems from the need to broaden my academic perception and to explore interdisciplinary fields, which can tackle the challenges currently faced and take ‘search’ as we know to the next level. Topics such as ‘Data integration’, ‘Text Retrieval and Mining’ and interdisciplinary research topic like ‘Computational Linguistics’ which couples AI , NLP with data processing have enthused me, as they are crucial in speedy and accurate retrieval of data. M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) is a renowned university and because of my interests, I pursued a bachelor’s degree in Information Science and Engineering department. In my freshman year of college, I worked under Professor Dr. Lingaraju to develop a two player chess program. I was part of a 3 member group and we coded the entire game using C+ + without using any of the data structure or object oriented features because we weren’t taught of these in our freshman year. This taught me to work smart, plan, research better before actually starting the work. During my sophomore year I worked under Professor George Phillips, on System Software project to develop tool to detect and correct syntax errors in code. I was part of 4 member team and was appointed as head. I understood the dynamics of being leader and motivating people in our team and distributing work amongst the members. On the technical aspect we faced challenges in detecting the error and providing the correct solution for it. This was my first experience with data storage and retrieval and to improve time efficiency we used parallel processing on the data files to retrieve data faster. My task was to improve the time efficiency as we had to work on Intel Atom processors for the comparisons. This gave me hands on experience and insight into storage of data and indexing for faster recovery. To further increase the retrieval speeds we used custom hash functions to equally distribute the data into all the hashes. I attended Summer School program in prestigious IISc (Indian Institute of Science) that year and learned about NLP, game theory and its applications, data indexing, computer graphics and other topics over course of 3 weeks. These projects taught me the importance of team work, dividing work, keeping deadlines and other qualities essential to be a leader and as an engineer to work smart and efficiently . All this proved to be of great help when I spearheaded my team into the Intel Embedded challenge 2012 in my 3rdyear. The challenge was to build a Seed Selection machine. To select the seeds we used image processing techniques. A camera as used to take pictures of the seeds as they pass through the machine, to compare the seed’s shape, size, and color with a database of high quality seeds. We had a database of high quality seed pictures to compare with the pictures taken during comparing mechanism. Though we didn’t get funding to build and demo the system, it was a learning experience for us and gained much exposure in embedded systems and image processing. All this hard work paid off when I got selected as a part of a 4 member team from our college for IBM ISL (Indian Software Labs) sponsored Smarter Planet (later I got to know that the examiners were impressed by the sorting algorithm I wrote to sort a 2gb data file). In this project we explored ways to bring technology to rural India and remove age old farming traditions with modern techniques For the first phase of our project we were tasked to build a web portal which can be customized to each individual farmer. As I had previously used Html, Css, php, Ajax in course based projects; it was relatively easy to successfully host our site on free web hosting services. Each farmer is provided with personalized web page and through it, he quickly accesses the rates at which crops are being sold in the nearest wholesale markets. If the crops have to be stored; the closest warehouse or granaries are located on Google maps, and we also provided a queries page where farmers can contact experts. The second most crucial aspect was price prediction. For this we used a neural network and built a decision support system. I was inspired to use a DSS when I came across a paper by Keith Mathew’s. We used a neural network for prediction. The inputs for the Neural Network (NN) were obtained from processing and extracting, previous decades crop prices, rainfall, and irrigation and production details. After getting results from the neural network we used the DSS to better the accuracy of the predicted values. We used parsers to extract the data from the text files and using Mysql, created databases to organize the data extracted to be used by the NN. As we developed both the front and back end of website from scratch, I understood the importance of getting accurate price information for the farmers and how to organize and present the data in neat understandable format. The search feature was limited to finding the disease types and pesticides to use, based on keyword based searching. Today I work at Graduate Trainee in Volvo IT as a delivery to customer loyalty associate, and to quote my mentor, Mr. Miklos, “We spend about half our time, waiting machines for catch up to us and collect information we need”. Working with real time data and constantly updating databases at Volvo IT, I came to realize the actual complexity involved in organizing and storing the necessary information from the real time data. I strongly believe that computer engineers should be innovative, instinctive and able to adapt new technologies, which is possible only with solid foundation and guidance from good faculties. With every hurdle I have crossed, I make it a point to reflect how things could have been done better the next time and try to learn from my mistakes. These qualities, clubbed with sound analytical strength, logical capabilities, natural aptitude for mathematics and my motivation to excel, I am confident that The University of X , Y will provide me with a synergetic experience, conducive to the benefit of the system as well as the surrounding. As I am interested in research, and the Miams (multi-modal information access and synthesis), with its research courses like ‘analyst-centric retrieval’, ‘source modeling’ and Information Network Academic Research Center with research in ‘Real-time Data-Source Integration and Information Extraction’ match my research themes and I would be very keen to work with Dr. X as I share his current research interests in NLP based search and information extraction in the Intelligent information access theme.

IT is for MS not PhD .... ya ill remove the publications and awards para's

Thanks for all the inputs, acarol and fuzzylogician =D i have made the changes and made it more focused (i feel).... pls point out any other mistakes if present Thanks Cheers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense” –Thomas Alva Edison This famous quote has inspired me greatly since I was a kid. Like young Edison and his interest in harnessing the power of steam, I was deeply fascinated by computers and the potential they hold, from a very young age. My motivation to pursue Master of Science in Database and Information Systems at Xyz University stems from the need to broaden my academic perception and to understand better how data today is processed, stored and mined. Topics such as ‘Data integration’, ‘Text Retrieval and Mining’ and interdisciplinary research topic like ‘Computational Linguistics’ which couples AI , NLP with data processing have enthused me, as they are crucial in tackling the challenges of speedy, accurate retrieval of data. M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT) is a renowned university and because of my interests, I pursued a bachelor’s degree in Information Science and Engineering department. In my freshman year of college, I worked under Professor Dr. Lingaraju to develop a two player chess program. I was part of a 3 member group and we coded the entire game using C+ + without using any of the data structure or object oriented features because we weren’t taught of these in our freshman year. This taught me to work smart, plan, research better before actually starting the work. During my sophomore year I worked under Professor George Phillips, on System Software project to develop tool to detect and correct syntax errors in code. I was part of 4 member team and was appointed as head. I understood the dynamics of being leader and motivating people in our team and distributing work amongst the members. On the technical aspect we faced challenges in detecting the error and providing the correct solution for it. This was my first experience with data storage and retrieval and to improve time efficiency we used parallel processing on the data files to retrieve data faster. To further increase the retrieval speeds we used custom hash functions to equally distribute the data into all the hashes. These projects taught me the importance of team work, dividing work, keeping deadlines and other qualities essential to be a leader and as an engineer to work smart and efficiently . All this proved to be of great help when I spearheaded my team into the Intel Embedded challenge 2012 in my 3rdyear. The challenge was to build a Seed Selection machine. To select the seeds we used image processing techniques. A camera as used to take pictures of the seeds as they pass through the machine, to compare the seed’s shape, size, and color with a database of high quality seeds. We had a DB of high quality seed pictures to compare with the pictures taken during comparing mechanism. Though we didn’t get funding to build and demo the system, it was a learning experience for us and gained much exposure in embedded systems and image processing. All this hard work paid off when I got selected as a part of a 4 member team from our college for IBM ISL (Indian Software Labs) sponsored Smarter Planet (later I got to know that the examiners were impressed by the sorting algorithm I wrote to sort a 2gb data file and extract data from the file). In this project we explored ways to bring technology to rural India and remove age old farming traditions with modern techniques. I attended Summer School program in prestigious IISc (Indian Institute of Science) and learned about NLP, game theory and its applications. For the first phase of our project we were tasked to build a web portal which can be customized to each individual farmer. As I had previously used Html, Css, php, Ajax in course based projects; it was relatively easy to successfully host our site on free web hosting services. Each farmer is provided with personalized web page and through it, he quickly accesses the rates at which crops are being sold in the nearest wholesale markets. If the crops have to be stored the closest warehouse or granaries are located, the tariffs and the details of the warehouse like storage area, cold storage facilities, closest access point or train yards are given to the farmers. We also provided a queries page where farmers can contact experts and get advice on crop diseases, the pesticides to use, nutrients that are necessary for growing that particular crop. The paper highlighting the main part of the project and use cases is published under IJCA (International Journal of Computer Applications) with me as one of the co-authors. Our paper also won the ‘Innovation Challenge’ in SRII-India ICESM (International conference 2012). The second most crucial aspect was price prediction. For this we used a neural network and built a decision support system. I was inspired to use a DSS when I came across a paper by Keith Mathew’s. We used a neural network with 1 hidden layer, 4 inputs and 3 outputs. The inputs for the Neural Network were obtained from processing and extracting, previous decades crop prices, rainfall, irrigation and production details. After getting results from the neural network we used the DSS to better the accuracy of the predicted values. Example: We saw spiked increase in buying of flowers before festivities and we included such factors into the DSS. The main challenges were to mine the data necessary for the neural network form excel and word documents. We used text mining and formed DB’s to store information so subsequent searches would be faster. All the challenges I had faced before, helped me during this project, and I was able to lead my team in better way and we demoed the project in National level conferences like IT-BITZ, ImpressIT, I-Care Today I work as an application delivery engineer in Volvo IT. As a fresh recruit in the DCL section, we work on front end applications, right from development to delivery of the finished application. I worked on ASP.Net and we also are trained in the maintenance of the current applications and providing patches and updates. The most challenging task, has been working across groups located at different geographic locations and collaborating with them to provide the best applications. I strongly believe that computer engineers should be innovative, instinctive and able to adapt new technologies, which is possible only with solid foundation and guidance from good faculties. I love challenges and believe that practical implementation is the best to way to understand a concept. I don’t have ego problem and accept it when I don’t know certain skill and I try to develop and improve that skill. With every hurdle I have crossed, I make it a point to reflect how things could have been done better the next time and try to learn from my mistakes. These qualities, clubbed with sound analytical strength, logical capabilities, natural aptitude for mathematics and my motivation to excel, I am confident that The University of X , Y will provide me with a synergetic experience, conducive to the benefit of the system as well as the surrounding. As I am interested in research, and the Miams (multi-modal information access and synthesis), with its research courses like ‘analyst-centric retrieval’, ‘source modeling’ and Information Network Academic Research Center with research in ‘Real-time Data-Source Integration and Information Extraction’ match my research themes and I would be very keen to work with Dr. Dan Roth as I share some of his research interests.

Statement of Purpose-- Not really sure how to start and after reading a few samples i felt, starting with quote is good so went with it ( and i did read that quote when i was little ). The awards nd publications i have made it as little as possible only mentioning the most recent 1s. should i remove them totally and let it be only on CV ?? the letter is 1221 words long. quite long i felt need ways to cut it down a bit more nd bring to about 1100 range. All suggestions welcome Thanks in advance cheers, suhas ---------------------------------------------------------- “The great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense” –Thomas Alva Edison This famous quote has inspired me greatly since I was a kid. Like young Edison and his interest in harnessing the power of steam, I was deeply fascinated by computers and the potential they hold, from a very young age. My love towards computers began when I was about 8 years old and my parents gifted me a Pentium III processor. I remember the first time I booted it and saw the neat icons, interface and writing my 1st GW-Basic program on my Windows 95. The fascination towards programming and understanding the working of computers never died down and I took up computer science as a subject both in High School as well as in Pre University degree. Owing to these credentials I got admission into one of the most elite colleges in XYZ, one of the top 4 colleges in our state and top 20 private universities in our country. I opted for Information Science and Technology because I felt it was a fusion of the best parts of Computer Science and Information Systems. I am passionate about research, and this was the primary motivator to pursue graduate education in Computer Sciences. My training in Information Science department was interdisciplinary. During my Fundamental of computing course, I was part of a group (of 5) project and we developed a two player chess program. We used Graphics.h libraries to design the chess board and pieces for the players. We presented this to the faculty and after Q&A session, we were encouraged to interact with seniors on other graphics based projects. In digital design course I built an infrared light detector to detect intruders. I implemented the circuit on a breadboard with components purchased from a store. As part of microcontrollers and microprocessors class, I was part of a 2 member team and we built a digital counter. For Computer Architecture and Organization course, I was part of a, two member team and we did an in depth review of the Itanium Processor and presented it. In Computer Networks-I course, I presented Hping3 tool for testing our college firewalls and in Computer Networks-II course, I was part of 4 member team which demoed the use of wire shark in network and topology analysis. In our Scripting Languages course, I developed a website using Perl-Tk. During Software Engineering course, I was part of 3 member team. In this initially we used Resource Standard Matrix tool for analysis of C, C++, C# and Java based codes. This was presented by my teammates and I developed a independent tool, to correct syntax errors in C codes and issue smart warning to the users about other potential errors in the C code. We presented this in our class and the tool I developed was appreciated. All these projects taught me the importance of team work, dividing work, keeping deadlines and other qualities essential to become a leader. All this proved to be of great help when I spearheaded my team into the Intel Embedded challenge 2012 in my 3rdyear, with an image processing project based on Seed Selection using Snake contours detection. We used a camera to take pictures of the seeds as they pass through the machine, to compare the seed’s shape, size, and color with a database of high quality seeds. Contour extraction using greedy algorithm to get the outline of the seeds as they pass through the machine. Though we didn’t get funding to build and demo the system, it was a learning experience for us and gained much exposure in embedded systems. All this hard work paid off when I got selected as a part of a 4 member team from our college for IBM sponsored Smarter Planet. In this project we explored ways to bring technology to rural India and remove age old farming traditions with modern techniques. For the first phase of our project we were tasked to build a web portal which can be customized to each individual farmer. With my vast knowledge of Html, Css, php, Ajax this was easy task and we were successful in hosting our site on free web hosting services. The actual paper highlighting the main part of the project and use cases is published under IJCA (International Journal of Computer Applications) http://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume57/number18/9218-3773 with myself as one of the co-authors. Our paper also won the ‘Innovation Challenge’ in SRII-India ICESM (International conference 2012) Each farmer is provided with personalized web page and through it, he quickly accesses the rates at which crops are being sold in the nearest wholesale markets. If the crops have to be stored the closest warehouse or granaries are located, the tariffs and the details of the warehouse like storage area, cold storage facilities, closest access point or train yards are given to the farmers. We also provided a queries page where farmers can contact experts and get advice on crop diseases, the pesticides to use, nutrients that are necessary for growing that particular crop. The second most crucial aspect was price prediction. For this we used a neural network and built a decision support system. I was inspired to use a DSS when I came across a paper by Keith Mathew’s. We used a neural network with 1 hidden layer, 4 inputs and 3 outputs. The inputs for the Neural Network were obtained from processing and extracting, previous decades crop prices, rainfall, irrigation and production details. After getting results from the neural network we used the DSS to better the accuracy of the predicted values. Example: We saw spiked increase in buying of flowers before festivities and we included such factors into the DSS. This task of mining the data from the vast database proved to be challenging task, we were able to host the entire web site on a cloud and demo it in various conferences like I-Care (national level) , Impress-IT (state level), IT-Bitz (state level) just to name a few. Today I work as an application delivery engineer in Volvo IT. As a fresh recruit in the DCL section, we work on front end applications, right from development to delivery of the finished application. I worked on ASP.Net and we also are trained in the maintenance of the current applications and providing patches and updates. The most challenging task, has been working across groups located at different geographic locations and collaborating with them to provide the best applications. I strongly believe that computer engineers should be innovative, instinctive and able to adapt new technologies, which is possible only with solid foundation and guidance from good faculties. I not only see myself as a highly successful software engineer working for one of the top companies but also as a significant member of the society by contributing time and money to various causes and charitable organizations. I have always been a quick learner and extremely hard working. These two qualities, clubbed with sound analytical strength, logical capabilities, natural aptitude for mathematics and my motivation to excel, I am confident that The University of X , Y will provide me with a synergetic experience, conducive to the benefit of the system as well as the surrounding. I am interested in research and University of X with its distinguished faculty, state of the art laboratories, multi-disciplinary research in ABC fields and phenomenal industrial interface, offers an opportunity that is sought after internationally. I earnestly hope that you will review my application favorably and grant me admission.