SOP help request (I am posting my SOP second time)
Hi all,
I am posting my SOP which I wrote again after failing first time..
I need some help and your views on this work.
I want to make my SOP as strong as possible.
Thank You people...
Life on earth had started as self-assembling organic molecules and evolved into highly complex life forms with overwhelming diversity. Among all the diverse Life forms on earth Human Beings emerged into something great and are at the top of the Evolution, who are characterized by using tools, abstract reasoning, introspection, problem solving, self-awareness, rationality and sapience. I believe that Intelligence is at the top of the evolution process and of ultimate importance which facilitated man to build the Modern World. Human beings developed and used very basic stone tools to complex high performance computing machines with diverse characteristics which augmented human capabilities. Now if humans develop Artificial Intelligence which will be a tool to break through the barriers that humans are dreaming to break. In my lifetime I will perform research to develop AI systems which will make my goal oriented life meaningful, and to transcend the Human Life.
My undergraduate course work have good breadth which prepared me all rounded with wide vision of the current technology world. AI is the area in which I will spend my lifetime working on it with much pleasure. In my B-Tech I sought for a real world problem to be solved with intelligent systems, I didn’t had in-depth knowledge in any other real world problem like I do in Athletics 100 Meters Sprinting event, which I acquired from being a successful sprinter at University level. I creatively designed and developed “SprintTech”, which is an Intelligent Athletic Training planner software, to guide any specific athlete over a season of training by giving Training workouts data for every session of practice, the training data is adapted to improve performance of athlete based on knowledge acquired from his previous training data till that session, which follow standard Training principles, and variables such as current fitness level, targeted performance level, phase of the training and number of sessions remaining in the season. SprintTech uses single layer recurrent neural network with a hidden layer of neurons with a learning algorithm that modifies the synaptic weights of the Workout generator and also based on the Micro Cycles and Macro cycles of the training phase.
In my B-Tech except Neural Networks I didn’t have any other AI course in my curriculum, which gave me a serious reason to study AI concepts as extra curriculum. I learned AI concepts of Intelligent Machines like Perception, Supervised learning algorithms, problems in reasoning about action, rational decision making, Decision trees, reasoning under uncertainty, Knowledge representation, Logical inference and planning. I was helped by my Project Guide Mr. Sai and Mrs. Laksmi HOD (Head of the Department) many times with these concepts when I had hard times to move forward. I developed SprintTech in two projects SprintTech 1.0 and 2.0 which form whole software called SprintTech. SprintTech was accepted by my college athletic department and by SAAP (Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh) coach Mr. Prasad and SprintTech has received good appreciation and left me satisfaction for my Hard Work. Although I succeeded in my project work with lot of extracurricular work, it left me less time for preparing 3-2 semester examinations which led a drop of GPA from 70% to 60% in 3-2 but I learned to manage time and work harder and improved my grades in 4-1 to 65% and 4-2 to 80% and became the achiever of academics of QISCET in final year for my project work and my overall performance in department. I feel proud to say that SprintTech has received 3rd place in National level Software Project competition at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur.
While doing my project work I gained not only new knowledge and experience but also confidence that devoting myself to AI was the right decision. During last two years I have spent most of my time learning new concepts in AI. My future research plans are vested on Artificial Intelligence and to build autonomous agents that senses and acts upon its environment in the service of its own agenda. An autonomous agent with human-like cognitive capabilities is ultimate goal of the AI, I will work towards making that possible with as much as I can do in my lifetime. My research interests revolve around the design and implementation of cognitive, software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling. Due to the convergence of a variety of sciences and technologies, the end goal of AI is closer than most people think.
MS Program at University of XXXX will provide me with the necessary preparation for my further research. First, University of XXXX will provide me with graduate-level coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, and Probabilistic Neuroscience, which are necessary breadth for me to develop overall concepts and tools for my further research. Secondly, I will have opportunities to take part in research projects XXX, YYY that are proactively investigating issues relevant to the Cognitive Machines of the Machine Learning. Finally, University of XXXXX multidisciplinary approach will help me develop knowledge that is needed to break rock hard problems of AI through Biologically Inspired models and Neuroscience and Mathematics. University of XXX got the AI community that I wish to be a part of and the professor XXX current research which was a great contribution to AI matches my Interests. Specific features of the grad program which attract me are your AI research lab XXXX and Unmatched Professors XXXXX, YYYY in the field of AI. After completing my graduate studies at University of XXXXXX I hope to do some multi disciplinary coursework before going to PhD work that will be vested in the development of AI systems.
While I was an undergraduate I balanced my Athletics (100 Meters) career, my curriculum and my research project with extracurricular work. To balance them I have developed time management skill, hard working nature, good sportive spirit, and zeal to go for that extra mile. That gives me the confidence that I will fare at the rigorous and challenging graduate research at your university. This experience also taught me that success is a journey, not a destination.