STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Name : KOUSHIK MANDAL

Ph.D. Programme in
I want to pursue my doctoral study in Computer Science and
Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I believe that only a
research study will give complete satisfaction to a student through extending
his/her innovative thoughts and implement them as their research work so that
he/she can help mankind. Driven by this thought I choose research study in this
field. Computer Science students have an implicit love for Algorithm and
Complexity so am I , but I am very much interested in Parallel algorithm and
High Performance Computing by which we can accelerate all available
application with help of parallel hardwire. I have done some work on it in my post
graduation and want to extend it in my research study.IIT Bombay has a great
infrastructure for High Performance Computing lab and renowned faculty to do
research work in this field.

During my graduation I have done project on Minutiae based

Fingerprint Recognition using MATLAB guided by Mrs. Shyama Mondal. Where
I have implemented fingerprint recognition system where the main objective was
to extract the minutiae i.e. features ridges and furrows from raw image and store
them as a template and try to match with other image and particular image. The full
process was decomposed into three sub-process mainly Preprocessing where image
has been enhanced, Minutiae Extraction where minutiae has been marked and
stored and last Minutiae Match where two images have been aligned and matched.

In my post graduate thesis I have worked on Acceleration in Physics

Simulation in GPU using CUDA under the guidance of Prof. Nandini Mukherjee.

In this thesis I generate a physical structure based on certain model and simulate
over the structure to get characteristics of the structure which is being done in
parallel. I Implemented it using CUDA C ,it is C language with few extension and
used nvidia Tesla GPU as parallel hardwire. CUDA is parallel programming model
developed by nvida. When I compare the time of my parallel implementation with
previous serial implementation I got huge speedup in execution. It was a hybrid
algorithm where structure was generated serially in CPU and the computation has
been done on that structure in parallel in GPU. The steps were generate the
structure and send it to the gpu memory where calculation has been done in
parallel and after getting back the result show the result from cpu.

During my graduation and post graduation I studied lot of subjects

related to computer science but during my thesis in masters I came to know GPU ,
graphics processing unit, a parallel processor by which we can reduce execution
time of available application but there is no automatic compiler chain by which
application can be parallelized to get run on gpu. Then I decided to undertake my
research in this field. If we can build a middleware which will automatically detect
parallel portion of an application and run them on gpu in parallel then application
will get faster and smoother in our system.

I believe that IIT Bombay is one of the best in research in computer

science field in India. It is the only institute in India having CUDA Center of
Excellence Lab certified by NVIDIA. Nvidia is pioneer in gpu computing in the
world. Hence It will be the best place for me to do research work in my field
having world level infrastructure lab and renowned faculty.

I am an energetic individual with required domain knowledge having

ever enthusiastic for accepting challenges. With an avid passion for academics and
sound post-graduate research exposure, I find myself absolutely prepare and
motivated for Doctoral Research Program. I am convinced that my intellectual
independence, creativity and qualifications satisfy the requirement of Doctoral

Research program at IIT Bombay. I am extremely optimistic to get the opportunity

to join esteem research group at IIT Bombay.