Tejas Bhalerao

Hello! I'm interested in applying to MS CS/HCI courses in USA cuz Design + Code keeps me happyhttp://www.edulix.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif GRE- 310 | Q-161, V-149, AWA-3.5 TOEFL- Yet to take (expecting >100) UG 7.33/10 | Toppers Grade- 8.6/10 | Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, Maharashtra(Govt. + Autonomous) Work Exp. Would complete 2 yrs this Sept '14 working in Infosys Ltd. as a System's Engineer. Client- Goldman Sachs Internship/Research Junior Research Fellow at the HPC Lab, IIT Bombay for 2.5 months. I was primarily involved in parallelizing code to optimize performance. MS/PhD No PhD. Interested in joining industry immediately after MS. Universities(Draft) -Carnegie Mellon (MS HCI) -GaTech (MS HCI) -Cornell University (MPS) -UMich Ann Arbor (MSI HCI) -Virginia Tech (MS HCI) -University of Maryand, College Park (MS HCI) -Depaul University(MS HCI) -Rochester Institute of Technology (MS HCI) -University of Indiana, Bloomington (MS HCI) -IUPUI (MS HCI) Why HCI? -Brainstorming on design problems, Design of Interfaces, Prototyping, Information Visualization/Architecture, UI/UX interests me -A perfect amalgamation of Design + Code is what I'm looking for while deciding my MS courses Please correct/provide more inputs if my notion of HCI is vague. Also, feel free to extend my list to add relevant CS/HCI universities suitable to my profile. Advise appreciated http://www.edulix.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif