I’m applying to Georgia Tech’s master’s program in Electrical Engineering in pursuit of learning more about Systems and Control Theory in addition to Signal Processing Theory and Applied Mathematics. I have garnered an interest in these fields through my undergrad classes and extensive research experience. Georgia Tech’s Electrical Engineering department has several great opportunities and programs that align with my interests, and I hope to take full advantage of these opportunities if accepted.
One way I have been exposed to the field of System Theory is through my undergrad classes. Although my degree is a BS in Biomedical Engineering, some relevant class work includes Systems and Modelling and Signal and Systems, which introduced signal theory, nonlinear dynamics,
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Introduction to these topics allowed me to delve further in the material outside of class, and I’ve learned a lot from reading books, such as Strogatz’s “Nonlinear Dynamics”, Kailath’s “Linear Systems”, and Khalil’s “Nonlinear Control”. In addition, I have also taken graduate classes including Nonlinear Control and Optimal Control, which familiarized me with the topics of functional analysis and differential geometry, and the modern field of control theory. Apart from classes, research has been paramount in developing academic skills. I have worked on many projects in different subfields, including experimental lab work to study prion formation in yeast, dynamic programming in bioinformatics for genomic sequencing, machine learning for a brain-computer interface for a drumming third robotic arm, and experimental surgery for examining electrode properties in electrophysiological stimulation. My varied research experience allowed me to see a lot of different research approaches and