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The Fermat's Last Theorem By Simon Singh
Seven years in isolation? I grew rather inquisitive as I read the book “The Fermat’s Last Theorem” by Simon Singh. ‘Sagely’, I thought, as I kept learning more about Professor Andrew Wiles through the course of the book. To spend time solving a believably unsolvable riddle in Mathematics is penance. He must have tormented himself to add a diamond to the mine or mountain of knowledge; but possibly the ecstasy at the end put all that at naught. That and the thought ignited in me, that burgeoning zeal. I went on reading other books and magazines that fueled the passion for excellence through innovation and hosted a hungry and foolish soul in me.
It was this hunger for knowledge and zeal to excel that helped me consistently be among the toppers
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I have been working with Qualcomm since June 2015 as a Physical Design Engineer and during my stay here, I worked on 3 different chips, each demanding expertise in a different area. Within 6 months of joining Qualcomm, I started working on my first project, which aimed at increasing the operating frequency of CPUs of processors used in smart printers to 950MHz. After working diligently for 4.5 months, I was successful in surpassing the requirements and achieve a post-silicon operating frequency of 1.1GHz which got me accolades from clients and managerial body …show more content…
Intrigue and awe gripped me when I read about the research going on in computational nanoelectronics and emerging devices lab under the guidance of Dr. Gengchiau Liang on nanoFETs and by Dr. Kah-Wee Ang on 2D layered semiconductors. I am keenly interested in being a part of the research undertaken by either of them. Working with such renowned professors will be a privilege and will give me the opportunity to contribute something original to the

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