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Personal Statement

Applicant : Tang W / Applied Program: Photonic System

"No pains, no gains." Simple as it is, this motto carries profound implications for me, whether in my formal academic education, or in the research projects that I have undertaken so far. When I was admitted to the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), a prestigious university well known in China and even in Asia, for my distinguished success in the entrance examination, I knew it very well that it would be a very tough job for me to excel in so competitive a community and to succeed in the fast-developing telecommunications field. But I was still confident and ambitious, because I love telecommunications so much.

Influenced by my parents, who are senior engineers in the Bureau of Post and Telecommunications of China, I have been strongly interested in telecommunications technology since I was a little boy. In university, I completed not only the program of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, but also all the core courses of telecommunications engineering. I got the highest scores in nine of my 20 compulsory specialized courses, and I ranked No1 among the students of our department. For my excellent academic performance, Peking Education Committee awarded me SONY scholarship, which was given to only 100 excellent students of Peking's universities and colleges. Besides, I carried off the first prize in an English speech competition of our university and the second prize of Peking area in 1998's SONY Cup National University and College Students Electronic Design Competition for my design of electronic scoreboard. My excellent performance in university won me opportunities to widen my scope of knowledge to face more challenges.1n 1997, I got the chance to visit and study in Shanghai Bell Telecommunications Technology Co. Ltd as a student representative of BUPT. In 1999, as the only student selected, I joined a research team on the project of 2.5G SDH of optical telecommunications, which was a part of the 863 Program of the Chinese government.

Later in 1999,This project done by the Information Industry Ministry in collaboration with Putian Information Industry Group, and Great Dragon Information Technology Corporation Limited won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress, the most prestigious award in the science and technology research field of China. Under the instruction of a senior engineer of Great Dragon Information Technology Corporation Limited, I took up the research task of 34Mb/s Tributary Card. Traditionally, only three 34Mb/s signals could go into STM-1 in SDH mapping route according to the ITU-T Recommendations. Successfully getting 4 signals to map into STM-1, I greatly raised the utilization ratio of band in optical telecommunications transmission system. Now this technology has passed the telecommunications network entry test of the Information Industry Ministry of China and has be applied to the HuNan Provincial Broadcasting and TV Transmission Experimental Network and Optical Fiber Telecommunications Network. My graduation thesis based on this research was included in a collection of excellent papers of our university. Professor Li Jingyong, the dean of our department commended me as one of the most outstanding students at the commencement.

After graduation, I joined the Hutchison Optel Telecom Technology Co., LTD. In the project on Intelligent Multi-service Transmission Platform, a part of the 2001 State Program of Key Technological Innovation Projects, I took on the research work of optical module, line interface card, switch and cross-connect card, and part of the DWDM, Multiple Wavelengths Optical System. At the same time, as a representative of our corporation, I was trained by Agere Co. Ltd of US and PMC Co. Ltd of Canada in the comprehensive application of SONETWORK optical telecommunications and the development of advanced technology in SDH/SONETWORK/DWDM optical telecommunications, etc. For my outstanding performance, I was appointed the head of Switch and Cross-connect Group in which many members had Master Degree, taking responsibility for the application of the system in IMTP Project. I was full of confidence in bringing the initiative and team spirit of all members into full play and making our group a team of great competitiveness. Because Nortel Co. Ltd of Canada was strongly interested in our IMTP Project, I was invited to take part in technology exchange activities on IMTP project between Nortel Co. Ltd and Hutchison Optel Telecom Technology Co., LTD in Hong Kong. In these activities, I exchanged views on many hot topics with the technologists of Nortel Co. Ltd such as SDH/SONETWORK technology and intelligent optical transmitting system of WDM technology.

My trip to Hong Kon g is unforgettable. It exposed me to the fact that so far nearly all the telecommunications technologies used in China were invented abroad. That is, the technologies to which we own our independent patent are very few. The lack of telecommunications technology talents is the main reason for our present backwardness in technological innovation. The development of telecommunications in China needs large numbers of young people to study abroad, grasp the advanced technology, and come back devoting themselves to our telecommunications industry. Nowadays, technology develops very fast in optical wireless telecommunications field. I desire to study in XXX University, a prestigious university in the world, so as to keep up with the development of telecommunications technology of the world. I hope I will become a specialist in such fields significant to telecommunications industry of China as optical telecommunications system; telecommunications transmission network, broadband telecommunications and optical wireless telecommunications.

I know it very well that it will not be an easy job to study abroad. But I think I made a right decision in the firm belief that I will do more for the cause of telecommunications of my country. But I am fully prepared for all the possible hardships and challenges, and my lifelong motto "No pains, no gains" will sustain me throughout my future academic and career pursuits