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I am Mohammadreza Amini Kashani, and at the time being, an MS student at Özyeğin University. I am writing this letter in order to inform you about myself as a candidate of your PhD program at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering as an individual with hopes, expectations and enthusiasm to become a part of your distinguished community at the University of....
As a high school student I was incredibly interested in mathematics. My great enthusiasm for mathematics encouraged me to read several extra text books in various fields of mathematics. I especially enjoyed solving Mathematics Olympiad problems during high school. Spending a lot of time on various challenging problems greatly improved my self-study ability. My talent and gift in mathematics not only led me got the honors degree in the intra-country Mathematics Olympiad, but also I ranked in the upper 0.03% amongst over 400,000 participants in mathematics branch at Iran’s national university examination (Konkoor). I chose my undergraduate major to be Electrical Engineering mostly because of my interest in both mathematics and applied sciences. Due to my very good rank, I decided to study at University of Tehran, the oldest and most prestigious university in Iran, owing to its competitiveness and outstanding academic atmosphere.
During the first two years of my B.Sc., I concentrated on curriculum courses since I believed deep understanding of regular courses would provide a strong background for the more specific courses which were to come in the years after. In the third year of my schooling at the University, I selected communications as my field of specialization. Getting ‘A’ mark in the Signals and Systems course and becoming familiarized with the beauty of Informa...

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... in education is taking PHD. Courses. Hence, I am searching to find a resourceful university, which can address my concerns and match my educational aims. After studying many different schools, I came to believe that the electrical engineering program at ... can help me to realize my personal dreams of scientific progress due to its outstanding faculty members and great facilities and research activities. During my investigations in the mentioned topics I have become familiar to the activities of some research groups at ... . Most of all, what Prof... is carrying out exactly meets my interests in optical communication. Considering my educational background and personal interests in this field, I am confident that given the opportunity of continuing my studies at ..., I will fully accomplish and contribute to relevant research in the areas I am greatly interested in.

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