Bipin C. DESAI: Information for potential graduate students

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Bipin C. DESAI

Information for potential graduate students

International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium(IDEAS)

Guidelines for prospective graduate students

Here are some notes for you if you are interested in pursuing a graduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia. If you would like me to be work with you as a your supervisor, please read the following notes before writing to me.

I am currently supervising a large number of graduate students, I cannot take all the students who may want to work with me. Each time I accept a new student, I have less time for: the students who are already working with me, my family and for myself.

I will consider application from student who does not require financial support and meet most of the following:

Have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or be prepared to take a qualifying year in the diploma program in the department.
Good communicator i.e., must be fluent (read, write and speak) at least one of the official languages of Canada: French or English.
Good to excellent in academic background (i.e., >>A- or whose GPA is higher than 4.00)
Must have a goal to finish the graduate work in the shortest possible time. Masters in 18-24 months, PhD in 36-40 months.
Not afraid to spend the time required to write and document decent code which works!
REPEAT: Does not require financial support (this means must have funds to support all academic/living/medical/personal/travel expenses.)

If you feel that you meet the above criteria, please go ahead and apply for admission to the department's graduate program. Contact the graduate school or the graduate program secretary of the department. Mention on your application that you want to work with me and I will be given your file when it is complete. You may send me a letter: tell me about yourself and what you want to do, and why you want me to work with you. Please do not send me emails; send all information by traditional mail. However include an email address, just in case!
I will try to answer by email message, but I can't guarantee to do so. If you do not receive a response, consider it as a 'No thanks!'

Suggestion: If you are trying to get into the Masters program, consider the application oriented option. Once you have finished the first term and established a good record at Concordia, you can approach me or one of the other faculty members to consider you for the thesis option.

I receive many applications and I answer only those that I feel would meet my criteria.

Do not send me emails: in any case most of the email sent from unknown servers do not reach me: my mail filter deletes them.

Note: this email filter consider ALL email from "free" email suppliers as "spam"!