I would be glad if someone could evaluate my profile:
I am planning to apply for Masters program in Computer Science , provided I get a call from a Top 20 university.
Currently, I am working as Security Researcher at McAfee Labs, India(joined in May 2011). My areas of interest are computer and network security.
My profile is as follow:
Undergraduate: DAIICT ( a 2-tier univ in India), GPA - 9.63 /10 OR 3.85/4, Class Rank 3/240.
Research Experience :
Summer Research Internship : Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (Area: Software Reliability Engineering)
Visiting Students' Research Programme: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Area: Malware Analysis)
B.Tech Thesis (6 months project): Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Area: Malware Analysis)
First Days (ICTD Project, UC Berkeley): I was associated with this project for about one and half year as Undergrad researcher and developer.( published one paper out of this work ar ICTD 2010 (Tier 1 conference).
Security Researcher: McAfee Labs, India (from past 6 months, submitted a paper in Tier-2 conference out of a research project undertaken at McAfee).
Publications :
1 journal publication
5 International conference publications ( one student Paper (Tier 2 conference - ISSRE) on Software Reliability Engineering , one on Malware Analysis(Tier 2 Conference ) , one Tier I conference (ICTD) , and one in international conference ( Tier III), one submitted at Tier-2 conference )
Services:
Teaching Assistant for Intro to Programming course at DAIICT.
Invited Reviewer - Software Quality Journal, Springer
Recommendations:(will choose 3)
One from a senior prof at DAIICT (strong)
one from a senior prof at TIFR (moderate)
also from a senior engineer(but he is a Phd) at PRL.(strong)
one from a alumni of UC, Berkeley(she completed her Phd(CS) last year).(strong)
GRE Score : Quant; 800 Verbal 490 = 1290
TOEFL Score : 108 (Reading: 27, Writing: 28, Listening: 29, Speaking 24)
I am looking into applying to the following universities, I am uncertain about my chances here as well as the funding scenario in these universities(keeping in mind the aforementioned profile):
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Maryland, College Park
Washington University in St. Louis
Purdue University
University of Texas, Austin
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Toronto, Canada
Is there any particularly good university I might have missed which I should consider applying to ?
Thanks