Profile Evaluation - MS CS Fall 2011

[kageiit]

Please evaluate my profile and kindly post your views and comments

I am a final year student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. My areas of interest are Computer networks, could computing. ( on a side track, graphics and game development)

Research Experience : Summer intern at LIP6, Paris France , Research experience with the complex networks group in our department.

Industry experience: Summer Intern at Oracle Corp, Bangalore, India. Worked on developing low level network driver interface for windows.

Projects: Several course related, personal and open source projects (12+)

Publications : ! conference publication (recent) in international conference. 1 poster to be submitted within few days

Recommendations : from my mentor at LIP6, Paris, France. my manager at oracle and several profs from my department.

GRE Score : Quant; 800 Verbal 510, AW: 4

CGPA: 8.52 / 10

TOEFL Score: 114/120 (27+ in all)

I am applying for Masters degree MS in Computer Science at the following universities:

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of Texas, Austin

University of Southern California, LA

Texas A&M University, College Park

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Barbara

University of Maryland, College Park

Ohio State University

I am ready to take loan for the course if absolutely necessary, but obtaining some sort of funding is very important for me. My main objective is to obtain a good job at some top company after i graduate. I would also love to wet my feet in research while pursuing my MS. Any suggestions for the univs I am applying to or about univs I should be considering?

If you feel I have left out any information, please ask for the same

[jawaiah]

I won't claim to be an expert on this, but everyone I've talked to seems to think that PhD is the way to get funded, whereas MS is much more difficult to do so.

[kageiit]

no more views? Is this group dead? can someone please post their comments.

My detailed Resume/CV is here: Resume / CV

[OH YEAH]

Princeton gives funding to MS students and has a very strong networking group.

[gaff]

The odds of you finding funding in any MS program are slim to none, very few programs will provide funding.

[krok]

INI Carnegie Mellon gives partial funding to students in their MS in Information Networking. There are a couple threads on here about that program.