Statement of Purpose
Arnab Sinha / September 22, 1983 / Applying to PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton U.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” Steve Jobs [Commencement Address, Stanford University, 2005]
I first felt the thrill of pursuing a dedicated scientific research, when I read about Prof. Andrew Wiles, (who spent seven years in isolation, solving the toughest riddle of mathematics) in the popular book - ``The Fermat's Last Theorem'' by Simon Singh, in my sophomore undergraduate year. Since then, the passion to excel and to innovate, has always hosted a hungry and foolish soul in me. My primary research interests are in the fields of CAD for VLSI, Computer Architecture and Formal Verification. My Academic and Research Background Smart problem-solving has always been a source of great fun to me. Mathematics was my favorite subject in school. As a token of appreciation for my hobby activities in mathematics, I was awarded C. V. Raman scholarship during my highschool days at Ramkrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur. My confidence was further boosted when I stood 4th in the Regional Mathematical Olympiad in 2001 and was selected to participate in Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO). It was a great opportunity to study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, one of the premier engineering institutes in India, in my desired discipline of Computer Science & Engineering. Ever since I joined the department, I have been focused on my academics which culminated in my high CGPA (9.28/10.00), and a rank of First in the department (out of 23 students) and Fifth in the institute (out of approximate 200 students). My first brush with VLSI was in the summer (May-June) of 2004, when I was selected for a month-long training at the Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory, IIT Kharagpur. I came to know about the challenges of design and verification of complex digital as well as analog VLSI circuits and got exposed to the various CAD tools. In the
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” Steve Jobs [Commencement Address, Stanford University, 2005]
I first felt the thrill of pursuing a dedicated scientific research, when I read about Prof. Andrew Wiles, (who spent seven years in isolation, solving the toughest riddle of mathematics) in the popular book - ``The Fermat's Last Theorem'' by Simon Singh, in my sophomore undergraduate year. Since then, the passion to excel and to innovate, has always hosted a hungry and foolish soul in me. My primary research interests are in the fields of CAD for VLSI, Computer Architecture and Formal Verification. My Academic and Research Background Smart problem-solving has always been a source of great fun to me. Mathematics was my favorite subject in school. As a token of appreciation for my hobby activities in mathematics, I was awarded C. V. Raman scholarship during my highschool days at Ramkrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur. My confidence was further boosted when I stood 4th in the Regional Mathematical Olympiad in 2001 and was selected to participate in Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO). It was a great opportunity to study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, one of the premier engineering institutes in India, in my desired discipline of Computer Science & Engineering. Ever since I joined the department, I have been focused on my academics which culminated in my high CGPA (9.28/10.00), and a rank of First in the department (out of 23 students) and Fifth in the institute (out of approximate 200 students). My first brush with VLSI was in the summer (May-June) of 2004, when I was selected for a month-long training at the Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory, IIT Kharagpur. I came to know about the challenges of design and verification of complex digital as well as analog VLSI circuits and got exposed to the various CAD tools. In the