University: BITS Pilani Branch: Computer Science Field of Interest: Social Computing, Machine

University: BITS Pilani

Branch: Computer Science

Field of Interest: Social Computing, Machine Learning, Knowledge discovery, Data Mining

Degree goal: PhD in CS or MS in CS

CGPA : 8.08/10.0

GRE : 158V, 164Q, 4.5 AWA

TOEFL : Yet to give

Internships:
1) In collaboration with a prof from SUTD (Singapore)
Worked on a predictive model to predict citations of a paper
2) INRIA-Paris, France ; 6 months 2017
Interactive visualisation tool using nlp and ml

Submitted or Accepted Publications:
1) A 2nd author publication at WWW'17
2) 3rd author Manuscript being prepared for a network science, ML heavy project towards a high impact journal publication
3) 1st author Manuscript submitted to IEEE Transactions paper on quantifying knowledge exchange using statistical learning and network science

Projects:
Class Projects and Grades towards relevant electives
1) Novel Feature Selection Algorithm ; as part of information retrieval course (Grade C, repeated to get B)
2) Predicting Release Year of a Song ; as part of information retrieval course (Grade C)
3) Gesture Recognition as part of Machine Learning course (Grade D)
4) Neural Networks ; Grade C

TA for Database
TA for OOP

Recos:
1) Professor, BPGC (strong)
2) Professor, SUTD (strong)
3) INRIA researcher (Strong)

Universities currently shortlisted (that I feel are too ambitious):
University of Maryland, UT Austin, Gerogia Tech, UCSD, UMich Ann Arbor

Please suggest universities that are Safe,Moderate and Ambitious. Thank you!