SOP

As a kid, I enjoyed assisting my grandfather in developing photographs in dark room. I bombarded him with questions like, “Why a dark room?” or “How a negative which was achromatic, when developed formed an emblazoned photograph?”. I learned how a camera manipulated light to capture images on a negative, which could be then developed to form images. Learning these concepts, I fell in love with science.Electronics in particular intrigued me the most. Curious about working of seemingly complex electronic devices, I had formed this theory in my mind, whatever digital signals that were manipulated, must be done at the simplest level in the form of just a simple switch, which is either ON or OFF. Thus while learning semi-conductor concepts and boolean logic I was overwhelmed. Gradually my early curiosity transformed into a thirst for profound understanding of specific areas such as how IC’s packed the same power in such incredible small size. To quench my thirst for further knowledge in this field, I chose Electronics and Telecommunication as major in under-graduate college and my interest in it has only amplified since then.

In my second year, a professor’s laptop was stolen. Motivated to help curb such incidents from happening in future, I worked on a low cost anti-theft circuit as a mini project. I built a tilt switch, which would be placed in a laptop bag. Whenever the bag was lifted, tilt switch output fed to the comparator triggered an alarm. It was then I realized that, solutions to everyday problems are not always complicated.

In third year, as a Committee Member of WITchar-2012,(Annual College Technical Symposium) I decided to introduce “Laser tag” game. I found that the vendors in market charged prohibitive rates for the ki...

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...rculean task and will revolutionize the field of micro-computing.

I am laser focused to work on the challenging nano-scale circuit design and test issues such as low voltage logic and memory circuits and near-threshold-voltage (NTV) computing. University of Texas, Dallas will provide the best platform to achieve my goals, equipped with avant-garde labs such as Texas Analog Center for Excellence, MiNDS lab and eminent faculty such as Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee and Dr. Jafari Roozbeh, whose research areas match my interests. This will help me realize my long term goal of conducting research in semiconductor technology and contribute to the next generation energy efficient microprocessors and SoC designs. Hoping for an encouraging and prosperous future at the university, I take this opportunity to thank the university faculty for their patient perusal of my application.