Dear Selection Committee,

I am writing this letter to give my highest possible recommendation for Mr. Vishal Desai. I know Mr.

Desai through his work in my research lab at University Of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Desai first approached

me one year ago about the possibility of work in my research lab for a semester. At our first meeting I

described the general outline of the project that he might work on. He asked good questions and

appeared intelligent. He then went to the library and found many papers on the subject and read them

carefully. He did this independently - I did not ask him to do this. I learned that he had done this at our

second meeting, and I was quite impressed at his motivation and independence. During that semester,

Mr. Desai demonstrated the ability to work independently with great creativity and enthusiasm. He also

put in many long hours. He worked as hard as my best graduate student. I teamed Mr. Desai with

another students to work on a project involving TCC benchmarking standards and get the perfomance

and cost factors on Google App Engine. The project aim was to build , evaluate and selecting computing

resources in a fast and inexpensive way with special emphasis on cloud computing as a economic

paradigm. Mr. Desai worked on Simpy Simulation which is discrete event simulator with help of python

development. Mr. Desai excelled in each one of these areas. His interpersonal skills were excellent. He

was usually the first one in the lab in the morning and the last to leave in the evening on his days of

work.

The other student working with Mr. Desai commented favorably about working with Mr. Desai. They

said that Mr. Desai got along well with everyone, pulled his own weight on the project, and had the

ability to compromise with other team members. Mr. Desai also volunteered to help others in the lab.

One of the other student was doing a project on cloud computing and map reduce, and it required

some knowledge and guidance. Mr. Desai helped him on several occasions. I was especially taken by Mr.

Desai’s creative mind and independent work ethic. We met about every other week, and at several

meetings he presented papers and information that was new to me. Mr. Desai also showed remarkable

problem solving ability.

In summary, Mr. Desai is clearly the best student I have worked with in the last 10 years. I think he

would be an outstanding asset to your program. I give him my highest recommendation.

Sincerely,

Tom Hill , Ph.D.