Please give an advice for cover letter.

Hi. Nice to meet you.

Now, I am planning to apply for PhD position in Europe, so I wrote cover letter. Could you read and give an advice for me?

Thank you.
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It is a great honor to write to you. I am writing to express my interests in a PhD position in your research group. In August 2013, I graduated with a M.S. of computer engineering supervised by Prof. ***** in the computer engineering of *****, Rep. of Korea. I am confident my 2 years of research experience in master candidate and two years of development experience in industrial field. They would allow me to contribute to the successful research, development, and other related duties.

During my academic years, I performed research on ***** and other computer architecture, such as GPU and ARM processor. I proposed ***** which is a novel approach to improve performance and energy efficiency of conditional statement in *****. It is motivated from a loop of openCV that decreases the benefit of *****. To solve this problem, I adopted loop fission technique to *****. This is executed with only compiler modification, or with hardware extension. However, it was able to amplify the disadvantage of *****, increasing reconfiguration time. With my advisor, I researched new approach to reduce reconfiguration time, so we proposed ***** architecture, which integrates sequential processor, such as ARM processor, and reconfigurabel array. Additionally, I studyed Gem5 simulator, and parallel programming, such and CUDA on GPU and MPI.

After graduated, I have worked as a software developer at ***** Electronics for two years. My main role is to improve embedded linux kernel by modifying task scheduler and CPU DVFS governor with the comprehension of computer architecture. Besides, I contributed to ***** by developing system daemons.

These would provide me with the skill sets I need to be an effective researcher. These projects have included: designing and developing hardware and software, translating human readable code to machine readable instructions; managing computer resources in real time system; defining problem and solving it; challenging new things and adapting it. In addition, I am diligent, persistence, honest, and cooperative as you guess from my previous work.

I would be excited to join your research group. I have built a strong background in computer hardware and software. What position I am considering is that researches something tightely related to hardware and software, such as compiler, simulator \& emulator, or application specific hardware. I am confident that your PhD position matches my interests and capability.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to the opportunity to speak with you and discuss the position in more detail. Please feel free to contact me at ***** or *****@gmail.com.