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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, envisage myself as a full!fledged researchprofessional in an organi"ation, or a faculty member at one of the

leading universities. The first step towards my ob#ective would be to

pursue Masters Program in Computer Science. My ultimate degree

ob#ective would however be a Ph.$.

Throughout my student career have been a top ran%ing student. was

in the top &.&'( of all engineering aspirants in my state, which

secured me a place in PSG College of Technology! one of the premier

institutions in ndia. have done #ustice to my potential by

contributing notably to the research wor%s in our college as well as

maintaining my academic ran% within the top '( of the students in my

class.

)ver the past two years, my li%ing for research has burgeoned

especially in the fields of security and distributed computing.

started by studying various information hiding techni*ues. +fter

extensive literature survey in the fields of Steganography and

atermar%ing, published my own techni*ue for efficient information

hiding in low resolution images using -ewtons orward $ifference in

Springer!/erlag 0-CS. have also wor%ed with watermar%ing techni*ues

especially audio watermar%ing and echo hiding and my paper titled 1A

Novel Embedding System For Efficient Watermarking In Auido In Echo2

tests the fitness of the -$ Techni*ue in this field of research.

used the -$ Techni*ue to compress uncorrelated frames in a video file

by establishing a relationship by generating a Correlation polynomial.

This proposal was well acclaimed when presented in the nternational

Conference of 3uman Machine4s nterface 5C3M &67 at ndian nstituteof Science 5Sc 8angalore7.

Two of my courses $istributed Component +rchitecture and Client Server

Computing interested me a lot. was very %een on doing some research

wor% in these areas and devoted *uality time towards an in!depth

understanding of these sub#ects and tried to implement my own ideas in

these fields.

My urge and potential for research was identified and was chosen to

lead the team for a research pro#ect, 1Code Optimisation in iddle!are"

based #istributed Embedded Systems2. e built a security framewor% for

C)98+ : based applications providing ; security services, which

includes authentication, authori"ation, non!repudiation, dataintegrity, auditing and security while transmission. e designed a !

bit symmetric %ey crypto algorithm G! M+P to be used in all the

security services. $uring the course of the pro#ect, had the

opportunity to design an -!tier for the distributed nature of the

framewor% and implement them in #ava. )ur originality and substantial

wor% in the pro#ect was appropriately recogni"ed and the pro#ect was

given ?The 8est Pro#ect +ward4, in the department.

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My academic pursuits have not however, prevented me from participating

with interest in various co!curricular activities including organi"ing

seminars and serving as representative of the class. These activities

have led to the development of a multifaceted personality and have

e*uipped me with strong interpersonal s%ills. My academic achievements,

research wor% and inter personal s%ills were well ac%nowledged and

was given the ?8est outgoing student4 award in our batch.

am currently wor%ing with Computer +ssociates and am wor%ing on the

pro#ect 1Security and $evice Management of Smart phones2. +part from

managing smart phones, this pro#ect deals with designing security

policies for them and implementing the same using @ava technologies. My

wor% spans across all the tiers of the pro#ect, which includes building

the GA using @ST0 and @S, implementing the business logic using

Bnterprise @ava 8eans and designing the database using S0 Server.

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

of security and distributed computing systems. Considering the

pioneering wor% going on at your department labs $istributed Systems

Software 0ab 5$SS07 and nformation Systems Security 0ab 5MSS07, which

perfectly match with the field of my interest, computer sciencedepartment at Aniversity of Maryland, is the ideal choice for an

exciting research career. +t the same time, am confident of

contributing originally to the ongoing wor% at your department. 8y

wor%ing under the guidance of distinguished faculty at your department,

am certain that will be able to exploit my potential to the fullest.

loo% forward to #oining Aniversity of Maryland as a graduate student

at your esteemed department.

( Name Removed )

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