Profile Evaluation for Fall 15 CS

[LeperMessiah]

GRE-320,Q-168,V-152

B.Tech-Indian Institute of Technology,Ropar

CGPA-8.8(class rank-2,topper has CGPA-8.88)

Major-CSE

Internship 10 weeks software engineering internship at Arista Networks,Bangalore

1 pending patent

1 research project(BTech final project) in the field of activity recognition in machine learning.

A paper can come into fruition only by next year.

 

Programming projects in college primarily in the fields of machine learning,artificial intelligence and computer graphics.

 

Extra-curricular

Executive member in robotics club

Campus Ambassador HackerRank

Other awards

1)KVPY scholar

2)Merit prizes for 1st,2nd and 3rd semesters for being in the top 7% in academics.

3)Merit Cerificates from Coursera in Machine Learning(97%) and Design and Analysis of Algorithms(Part-1)-(100%)

4)7 year scholar in school for academic proficiency in 7 consecutive years.

5)Was selected as the valedictorian for my class in school.

6)Merit certificate awarded in National Standard Exam in Physics(NSEP) for being in the top 1% of students out of 38994 test takers.

 

I need help in selecting the universities for MS(non-thesis) in machine learning/artificial intelligence.

 

My current selection:

1)UCLA

2)Gatech

3)UT Austin

4)UIUC(Professional Masters)-

 

Canada

1)UToronto

2)UWaterloo

 

Could you suggest some more which are good schools in machine learning/AI? Also do rate this list as ambi,mod and safe for my profile.

Thanks.

Edited September 3, 2014 by LeperMessiah

[DeleteMePlease]

Your profile seems very strong to me. You should be accepted by at least 2 or 3 of the schools you listed. If I were you (and could afford it), I'd also apply to higher ranked schools.