Undergrad Institution: IIIT Allahabad, India (Among top 10 institutes in teaching in field of IT)  
Major(s): IT 
Overall GPA: 9.32/10 
Length of Degree: 4 years  
Position in Class: Top 10 in college (Top in class) 
Type of Student: Indian Male 
Blog: http://pulkitgoyal.wordpress.com/ 
 
Research Experience: (At your school or  elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out  of N?) or conference talks etc...) Research internship at TU Dortmund  (as a DAAD Scholar), Research internship at IIIT Hyderabad 
 
Publications:  
Fast and Enhanced Algorithm for Exemplar Based Image Inpainting:  Anupam  Agrawal, Pulkit Goyal and Sapan Diwakar, In The 4thPacific-Rim   Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT2010, Singapore (2010).  
 
 Devanagari Character Recognition towards Natural Human Computer Interaction: Pulkit Goyal, Sapan Diwakar, Anupam Agrawal, In IndiaHCI conference, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (2010). 
 
 Transliteration among Indian Languages using WX Notation:  Rohit  Gupta, Pulkit Goyal, Sapan Diwakar, In KONVENS 2010,  10.Conference on  Natural Language Processing, Saarbrucken, Germany  (2010). 
 
 
 Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?)  
DAAD WISE Scholar, Awarded scholarship thrice for first rank in class,  Sun Campus Ambassador, OSUM Campus Representative, first prize at Young  IT Professionals Awards 
 
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, organization officer etc...) 
Industrial Intern at Elca Informatique SA, Lausanne Switzerland,  
Job Offer from D.E. Shaw Software Co., Hyderebad (12 lpa)  
 
Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: 
Member of ACM and CSI. 
 
Applying for [ MS ] or [ PhD ] at: 
 
MS at EPFL - Computer Science - Accepted, no funding 
PhD at EPFL - Computer Science - Pending 
 
What are my chances of getting the PhD?