STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

My four years of undergraduate studies in CS at PSG College of

Technology, Coimbatore and my exposure and penchant for research have
made the choice of further study, for me, an obvious one. My goal is to
pursue a career in research, either in industry or in academia. Ten
years from now, I envisage myself as a full-fledged research
professional in an organization, or a faculty member at one of the
leading universities. The first step towards my objective would be to
pursue Masters Program in Computer Science. My ultimate degree
objective would however be a Ph.D.

Throughout my student career I have been a top ranking student. I was

in the top 0.05% of all engineering aspirants in my state, which
secured me a place in PSG College of Technology- one of the premier
institutions in India. I have done justice to my potential by
contributing notably to the research works in our college as well as
maintaining my academic rank within the top 5% of the students in my
class.

Over the past two years, my liking for research has burgeoned
especially in the fields of security and distributed computing.
I started by studying various information hiding techniques. After
extensive literature survey in the fields of Steganography and
Watermarking, I published my own technique for efficient information
hiding in low resolution images using Newtons Forward Difference in
Springer-Verlag LNCS. I have also worked with watermarking techniques
especially audio watermarking and echo hiding and my paper titled “A
Novel Embedding System For Efficient Watermarking In Auido In Echo”
tests the fitness of the NFD Technique in this field of research. I
used the NFD Technique to compress uncorrelated frames in a video file
by establishing a relationship by generating a Correlation polynomial.
This proposal was well acclaimed when I presented in the International
Conference of Human Machine’s Interface (ICHMI 04) at Indian Institute
of Science (IISc Bangalore).

Two of my courses Distributed Component Architecture and Client Server

Computing interested me a lot. I was very keen on doing some research
work in these areas and devoted quality time towards an in-depth
understanding of these subjects and tried to implement my own ideas in
these fields.

My urge and potential for research was identified and I was chosen to
lead the team for a research project, “Code Optimisation in Middleware-
based Distributed Embedded Systems”. We built a security framework for
CORBA – based applications providing 6 security services, which
includes authentication, authorization, non-repudiation, data
integrity, auditing and security while transmission. We designed a 128-
bit symmetric key crypto algorithm G- MAP to be used in all the
security services. During the course of the project, I had the
opportunity to design an N-tier for the distributed nature of the
framework and implement them in java. Our originality and substantial
work in the project was appropriately recognized and the project was
given ‘The Best Project Award’, in the department.
My academic pursuits have not however, prevented me from participating
with interest in various co-curricular activities including organizing
seminars and serving as representative of the class. These activities
have led to the development of a multifaceted personality and have
equipped me with strong interpersonal skills. My academic achievements,
research work and inter personal skills were well acknowledged and I
was given the ‘Best outgoing student’ award in our batch.

I am currently working with Computer Associates and I am working on the

project “Security and Device Management of Smart phones”. Apart from
managing smart phones, this project deals with designing security
policies for them and implementing the same using Java technologies. My
work spans across all the tiers of the project, which includes building
the GUI using JSTL and JSF, implementing the business logic using
Enterprise Java Beans and designing the database using SQL Server.

If admitted I plan to carry on with my advanced studies in the fields

of security and distributed computing systems. Considering the
pioneering work going on at your department labs Distributed Systems
Software Lab (DSSL) and Information Systems Security Lab (MISSL), which
perfectly match with the field of my interest, computer science
department at University of Maryland, is the ideal choice for an
exciting research career. At the same time, I am confident of
contributing originally to the ongoing work at your department. By
working under the guidance of distinguished faculty at your department,
I am certain that I will be able to exploit my potential to the fullest.

I look forward to joining University of Maryland as a graduate student

at your esteemed department.

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