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../P1r, G. Sivaktunar March 29, 2012 (Proles.)
Reference Letter for Archit Gupta
I'm very happy to write this letter of reference for Archit Gupta whom I have know
about one year now. Archit is a student of J.S.S Academy of Technical Education
NOIDA. Archit first contacted me in Spring 2011 requesting me to guide him for his
summer project (he had been selec. for the KVPY Fellowship). Although, my
schedule that summer was qui. hectic, I was quite impressed with Archit's track
record and accepted. Archit spent 2 months at IIT Bombay in summer of 2011 and I
was really happy that I had agreed to gui. him. He was a very motivated, sincere
and talented student who did not need too much hand holding. From the beginning,
he was clear that he wanted to work on challenging problems with good learning
potential. Since I was interested in the use Python for modeling and visualization I
encouraged him to develop some tools in this area. I also requested him to help my
Ph.D. student who was building a simulator for evaluating dynamic policy
adaptation in collaborative peer to peer applications. Archit was all charged up,
quickly picked up all the relevant knowledge and was able to achieve both goals
quite easily. It was a pleasure to interact with Archit given his strong motivation,
talent and capability for independent work. He has the potential to do very
significant outstanding work during his studis. I would definitely place him in the top
5% of the approximately SOO students at his level I have interacted ectensively
with in the bst decade or so. I am delighted to recommend him in the highst posible
terms. Please feel free to contact me if you need any more details.
GS\