IP: Fwd: hello from an international student

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:35:51 +0800
> From: Lei Luo <njluolei () 263 net>
> Subject: hello from an international student
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
> Dear Professor,
>
>     I am a Chinese graduate student applying to your department for 
> a Ph.D. program beginning in Fall, 2000.
>
>     I obtained my B.E. Degree in 1998 in Department of Radio 
> Engineering in Southeast Univ. (formerly "Nanjing Institute of 
> Technology") in P.R.China with excellent academic and social 
> performance. Since Sept.1998, I began to purse a Master's Degree in 
> Department of Radio Engineering in Southeast Univ. in China.
>
>     My major is wireless communications. From Oct.1996 when I was an 
> undergraduate student, I participated in the project of ASIC Design 
> of the base-band signal processing modules in Base Station according 
> to the IS-95 standard. My recent research is Designing, Simulation 
> and Testing of the following modules of CDMA-2000 standard: Forward 
> Channels (Pilot Channel, Paging Channel, Sync Channel, Traffic 
> Fundamental Channel and Traffic Supplement Channel) and RAKE 
> Receiver etc. I program my designs with VHDL language on SUN ULTRA60 
> /SYNOPSYS platform.
>
>     I am very interested in the areas of wireless communications & 
> related signal processing, and longing to continue my study in these 
> areas. Since you are a well known specialist in these areas, I 
> believe that it will be very helpful to my academic career if I have 
> the chance to continue my research work under your advice.
>
>     I have taken TOEFL test in Aug.1999 (score 600). I will take GRE 
> (General) test in Nov.1999. I estimate my score will be around 2200.
>
>     I sincerely hope that you can consider my request and accept me 
> as one of your students.
>
>     Thank you for your time and consideration. If you want to know 
> more about me, please contact me via email. I am looking forward to 
> hearing from you.
>
>
>                                               yours sincerely,
>
>                                                              Lei Luo