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[akshayas1986]

Hi guys,
I am doing my telecommunication engineering at PESIT, Bangalore. I have an aggregate of 77.9% for first 6 semesters and I am ranked 4 in my dept. This is my resume in about 20 lines.

I have done 3-4 projects:
1. Routing algorithms for metropolitan bus services (Won 3rd in a national level contest,have presented it to Bangalores city's biggest bus service corporation, BMTC and at a national level conference at Indian institute of Information Technology(IIITB))

2. Path finding and tracking robot for a contest which won 12th place out of 70 at an All India Level robotics contest.

3. Screen scrapping techniques which can extract any kind of information from any website given the details.

4. LDAP authenication for chat servers and clients, which I worked with an employee from HP.

Extra activities(3 of them):
I am also a part of an Indian fusion semi-professional band named Paradhwani based in Bangalore (Paradhwani : The Official Website).

Was a part of a comical theatre team named Complete chaos.

Have been learning classical music for over 6 years in vocals and Tabala(Indian percussion instrument)

Achievements(3 of them):
1.Made it through IIT-JEE but got 4036 rank (Got Mining!! Not interested)
2.Ranked in top 200 for India in Top Coder Algorithm contests.
3.Distinction award winner in my college for my consistence performance in academics.

I am doing engineering in a purely Electronics and Communication Engineering field. I am keen on working on signal processing or electronics and computer engineering. Can you suggest schools in which I may stand a chance???

Thanks and regards

Akshaya Srivatsa

[theGrin]

Hi akshayas1986,

I think you have a pretty nice curriculum and you should have a chance on very good university... However, I'm not in electronics so I don't know what U's might match your interests. The only one that comes to my mind right now is Caltech...

P.S.: although it's cool to know that you have a band, I think that extracurricular activities do not help much when you're applying for the graduate level...