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Sagar Patel

fall 2025

6 years ago

Undergrad university: PES University, Bangalore Major: Electrical and Electronics Engineering (GPA -

Undergrad university: PES University, Bangalore
Major: Electrical and Electronics Engineering (GPA - 7.73)
Graduated: 2019
Desired Major: Electrical Engineering (Systems Engineering and/or Embedded Systems)
Interested: Fall 2020

GRE: 308 (144 V, 164 Q, 3 AWA)
TOEFL: 97

Internships:
CRSST (PES University division of DRDO) - Worked on PiSat (the nanosatellite launched by PESU) as a Control Systems Engineer.
Expertshub - Summer internship as an Embedded Systems Engineer.
Data Science Lab - Data Scientist at PESU for a summer and worked on implementing ML in Agriculture.
IISc - Project Assistant, worked on Medical Image Processing.
Unacademy - Back-end developer right now (More of a mixture of Technical and Management).

Projects:
1 in ML (Agriculture)
1 in Neural Networks
2 in AI (Healthcare as a Final year project; Agriculture)
4 in Robotics and Embedded Systems
2 in Control Systems

LORs:
Three decent to strong LORs (ex VP of Phillips turned faculty, one IIT graduate and another IISc graduate - All 3 professors at PESU and one more LOR from IISc professor).

SOP: Decent

Extra Curriculars:
IEEE RAS Student Chair.
Head of Robotics Club.
Part of the University Debate Society.
E-yantra competitor.
Worked part-time under the chef (as an understudy) at JW Marriott, Bengaluru.
Occasionally volunteers at the NGO.

Targeted Schools:
NYU
NEU
ASU
UTD
Syracuse
PSU
UCI
GWU
UIC
UCR


I need help shortlisting 6 from these universities and would like everyone else to suggest me a few more safe to moderate or even ambitious schools. Thank you very much! :)

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