I want to do PhD in Parallel Computing.
I m currently doing MTech (IT) from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (or IIIT-Bangalore) with current CG as 3.3/4.0 (without scale conversion).
My BTech (IT) was from NMIMS University, Mumbai (3.2/4.0).
I am yet to take GRE and TOEFL.
I am doing a part-time research internship at Siemens Corporate Research (which will later be full time) as a part of my curriculum
in the area of parallel computing. The total duration of this is approx 1 year.
+ 2 years of work ex (at least), before applying for PhD.
I am yet to publish any papers.
-> GATE 2010 percentile of 98.75 in CS.
-> Siemens Corporate Research and Technology conferring scholarship for my studies at IIIT-Bangalore.
-> An independent project on chess using C# .NET
-> BTech project related to network topology discovery using SNMP.
-> Rozgaar.com - a job portal in ASP .NET
-> MTech group project on CDS - Column Data Store. This was a simulation of DBMS in C .
-> Study project on a polynomial time algorithm for solving the graph isomorphism problem.
-> Android project on displaying of large images in low-memory phones with zooming and panning features
-> Simulation of Molecular Dynamics on GPGPU using CUDA
-> Brainbench certified in C++ Fundamentals with 3.43/5.00
-> 3rd prize in an inter-collegiate C++ programming contest at NMIMS-MPSTME.
-> Did a UG internship at Tata Tele Services Ltd. It was regarding network fault database retrieval software.
-> 1st position at a district level chess championship (U-19) in district Raigad, Maharashtra.
-> Topped my high school (in 12th standard) in computer science CBSE board exam with 96%.
-> Current MTech CG = 3.3/4.0
Ambi: UCLA, UMich AnnArbor , Gatech, Northwestern,Utah
Mod: Purdue,PennState,OhioStateUniv,Colorado-Boulder
Safe: NCSU, Texas A&M
Could you tell me the universities which are my worth ? Is the stratification given above correct? If not, can you re-form the list above?