koyel

hello, firstly new year wishes to you all.my name is koyel banerjee and i hail from west-bengal,india.currently i'm a 8th semester electronics and communications student from the west-bengal university of technology. i am vehemently interested to pursue my phd after my btech.as a student i have a knack towards research oriented career and pursuits and have been actively participating in project works under dr.s.n.omkar in IISC,BANGALORE and dr.neelima satyam IN IIIT HYDERABAD,both of which are image processing related works.In iisc i have been working on expectation maximization algorithm to help detect landcover changes in multi temporal and multiresolution images and in iiit hyderabad i have done an earthquake loss estimation using pre and post satellite imageries mainly using eradas,arcgis and matlab.the duration of my project works were arund 45 days in both cases.also i have done a certification course under ISRO related to remote sensing gps and gis.hence to righteously state that i am interested in signal processing and image processing related works and would like to take up the same for my phd. my current academics are like xth stnd I.C.S.E BOARD with 91.33% and xiith stnd from C.B.S.E with 87.5 % and my current cgpa in college is 8.155/10. i would be very happy if you would guide me.currently after my btech i am planning to take up my prof. dr.s.n.omkar's offer to 1 year research assistantship in iisc and am scheduled to write my gre general test on 4th of april.i would be applying for fall 2012.the universities of my choice involves: 1.university of illinois,urbana 2.princeton university 3.purdue university 4.penn-state university 5.arizona state university 6.florida university i would like an assesment of my chances into getting into each of the university and any other advices are always welcome. thanks and regards, koyel banerjee west-bengal india