Hello seniors,
Can you please evaluate my profile for MS Computer Science Fall-16.
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Name: Souptik Sen
College (not the name of the university awarding the degree): Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
Do you classify your college amongst the top 20 or 30 in India? If not how well rated is it in your
state? Yes (top 20 in India)
Branch: Information Technology
Field of Interest: Systems (Distributed Systems, Networks, Operating systems)
Degree Goal (MS/PhD): MS
GPA/Percentage (Do not Convert to US Scale): 76% absolute marking (83.13% avg in 3rd and 4th year)
Topper's Percentage (or GPA): 83%
Your rank in your class: top 10 maybe
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GRE: 338 [ 168(verbal) + 170(quant)] 4+(expected) in AWA
Toefl:Yet to be taken
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Workex: (If applicable)
1) 3 years (at the time of applying) relevant workex as a Developer in a US based Product company.
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Submitted or Accepted Publications: (If applicable, please do some work and copy-paste, it
really helps) - No papers
1 Patent filed by company at the USPTO related to Security, should be granted around Jan-Feb 2016
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Projects: (If applicable)
1) Plagiarism detector for source codes (Final year project)
2) Project related to usable security which won 1st prize at CA Hackathon
3) Office work related to area of interest- software transactional memory, Scala, Multithreading, performance improvements- worked on these things
4) Using machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection in Mainframes jobs. Creating a model to predict alerts. (pet project at office)
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Recommendations:
1) Director at CA Technologies Strong
2) BTP Guide at BIT Mesra (Professor- PhD) Strong
3) Professor at BIT Mesra (PhD) Moderate
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Misc Achievements:
1. Winner of CA Hackathon amongst 100+ teams
2. Inventor's incentive award from CA
3. 5th Rank in National Science Olympiad in High school
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Tentative Universities (if you have decided)
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The main things I am looking for in an MS are good systems courses, good job opportunities, good systems research (in that order) .
AMBI
CMU MSIN
CMU MCDS (systems specialization)
Georgia Tech
UCSD
UMass Amherst
UPenn
MOD
UC Irvine
SUNY Stony Brook
Wisconsin PMP (Professional Masters)
UIUC MCS
TAMU
Ohio State
NCSU
CU Boulder
SAFE
USC
Northeastern
SUNY Buffalo
UFlorida
Canadian Univs
UBC
McGill
Toronto
Waterloo
Please comment on my chances on the above universities. Feel free to suggest some good univs I might have left out.
Thank you