rajesh1

In the year 2003, after faring quite well in AIEEE exams, I was finally getting a chance to get admitted to BIT Mesra, which happens to be an institute of top repute in India. I was very ecstatic. A year later, due to my good performance in academics, I was given an opportunity to opt for any engineering stream of my choice. There were two very good options at that time – Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. I opted for the second. Not because I thought I would do exceedingly well in Electrical Engineering. A big part of the reason for my choice was my unfamiliarity to computers – hardware and software. I might even have had a fear of the Computer Engineering stream! Before coming to the college, I just had a few chances to come face to face with computers, and internet websites like

Yahoo. Looking back from the year 2013, I think that maybe I should have mustered up a little more courage, because like many folks these days, I sit before computers everyday for

10-12 hours, and I happen to like them!

I started my career as a manual software tester for CSC. In our project, there wasn’t going on much from a technical point of view in those days. All we had to do was check values, do some calculations and comparisons. It started getting a little mundane after a while. So I lapped up the chance that my manger offered me that involved testing automation.

Gradually, I started picking up things. My experience in C and C++ labs in college helped me a lot. To my surprise I started liking the assignment and I actually started looking forward to a day of work. The best part for me was that I learned everything on my own, without any formal training on the tool. I did well on the job - customizing the code, making it more efficient... ... middle of paper ...

...dience at a big stage, however, my signing skills are not quiet there yet!

As far as my research interests are concerned, my exposure to various applications over the years has made me realize that the enterprise data domain presents challenges different from the Internet paradigm. The requirements for enterprise application users are often nonoverlapping and vary greatly. This necessitates extracting information across a wide range of unstructured data and presenting relevant insights. And data security also becomes a big concern. The potential of using information retrieval techniques collectively over Internet and enterprise data excites me greatly and I would love to contribute to it.

Summing it all up, I truly believe that I will be a perfect addition to your global classrooms and if given an opportunity, I would be an alumnus the university would be proud of!