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I desire to pursue a MS in Computer Science. My interests, aptitude, experience and education all sum up to provide sound grounds for this immediate career goal. I would like to gain profound knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence; other areas that interest me are Natural Language Processing and Analysis and Design of algorithms.

My reason for graduate studies in Computer Science is to prepare myself for my long-term goal of pursuing a career as a senior member of technical staff for AI based solutions. My predilection is towards developing software, coding and working large scale projects, but research attracts me a lot, programming and development using AI is the area I would like to work in. Working under the guidance of the distinguished researchers at Arizona State University gives me the confidence of making a novel contribution in the field of Computer Science.

My academic and co-curricular record has been consistently good. Throughout school as well as now, I have been at or near the top of my class. I would like to stress most is the fact that I have been consistent in all academic or co-curricular (and even Extracurricular) tasks that I have undertaken. Having secured 23rd place in Combined Entrance Text of Devi Ahilya University where more than twenty thousand aspirants compete for admissions, I got the course I had long desired. College days were pretty exciting for me. The unique five year “Master of Technology” program helped me gain profound understanding of fundamental concepts like Database Management Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms and also helped me hone my Software Engineering skills. With an overall score of 78.5% I completed my degree. I also attended various workshops on Ethical Hacking and Android App Development held at IIT-Bombay. At many occasions I delivered presentations and trainings (Web-Analytics and Python) during my college and work life respectively.

My home paper submitted under Dr. Manju Sachdeva was based on exploring the contemporary breaches and bugs in popular e-commerce websites in India. For instance, I was able to detect bugs in quantity drop down of Philips and HP’s official online stores, where a UI element could be manipulated to turn the price of an item in a negative number to decrease the total bill value. Currently I am working on a paper presenting impact and analysis of ad-blocking in correspondence with Dr. Vivek Shrivastava. Anomalous and incomplete data captured in analytics while working for Samsung inspired me to take a deep understanding of whole ad-blocking story.

My 30+ months experience began when I was recruited by a more than two decades old US based IT firm during my second last semester. Since joining, I have gone through a rigorous training program, which emphasizes practical application of concepts, followed by onsite experience of working with a global client like Samsung. Samsung would periodically launch its flagship phones; this attracted numerous consumers on our site, which gave me a chance to build my expertise in field of optimization and scaling. My enthusiasm for learning helped me in integrating and generating sales reports with web-analytics tools like Google analytics, developing home grown content management system and integrating various payment gateways. My job boosted my confidence to apply concepts that I had studied in college.

Apart from my academic and professional interests, I enjoy playing badminton; I was on the University Teaching Department sports team and won a bronze for the department. I also secured second position in a dance competition in my college. I have experienced various adventure sports like White Water Rafting, Zip-Lining and Para-gliding. All this because I believe that living a balanced life with equal dedication to recreation and work is very important for one to keep up the motivation to accept new challenges in life. Challenges like preparing for and getting the desired scores at once in my GRE and TOEFL tests, self-studying in a limited time of four months without degrading my dedication for the exacting project I work for.

I want to gain profound understanding of AI concepts with a utilitarian goal of developing skills for working on logic based programming software. I am determined to pursue research in logic based programming area. If I find myself capable of further research, I plan to pursue a Ph.D. setting aside my goals for working in the service industry because the satisfaction gained while working on something innovative exceeds the perks of a job in IT industry.

The MS program in Computer Science at the Arizona State University feels like a natural progression. It has a good blend of theoretical and practical knowledge that would ideally suit someone with my disposition towards learning. An exposure to cliques like Yochan Group & Software Research Lab and guidance of faculty like Dr. Kurt VanLehn and Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati would definitely help me advance my career towards my long term goal. Also, I relish the thought of taking in all this knowledge in a new country in the kind of vibrant atmosphere that United States offers.

I put forward my application to your university with the promise that I shall be a reliable student with a positive attitude and a willingness to work in the atmosphere ASU offers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 96, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'firms'?
Suggestion: firms
...a more than two decades old US based IT firm during my second last semester. Since j...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, second, so, thus, well, while, apart from, for instance, kind of, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 33.0 14.8657303371 222% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 86.0 33.0505617978 260% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 127.0 58.6224719101 217% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 38.0 12.9106741573 294% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4527.0 2235.4752809 203% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 867.0 442.535393258 196% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2214532872 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.42631216653 4.55969084622 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08632167126 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 452.0 215.323595506 210% => Less unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521337946943 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1445.4 704.065955056 205% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 27.0 6.24550561798 432% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.2370786517 183% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.2083833319 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.351351351 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4324324324 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.45945945946 5.21951772744 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 9.0 4.97078651685 181% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 32.0 10.2758426966 311% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0285595635777 0.243740707755 12% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00874633143302 0.0831039109588 11% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0253099472745 0.0758088955206 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0188041367536 0.150359130593 13% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0282281665312 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 249.0 100.480337079 248% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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