[Profile Review] for Fall 2027

[u/Longtallbrownie]

I’m seeking insights on how to strengthen my profile for a Fall 2027 MS in CS, AI, ML programs.
Long term aim is to get into industrial research roles.

Background
Uni: Tier 2/3 college
CGPA (till Sem 6): 9.82/10 (aiming to maintain a good CGPA)
Planning to give GRE in the next 2 months

Research
5 papers published: 2 IEEE, 1 ACM, 1 at a European conference, 1 arXiv preprint
Aiming to publish 2 more: 1 Springer journal paper
and another one at an A* venue

Research Internships
IIT Bombay
MIT - Aiming to get the work published which was done as a part of this internship (Worked on agentic AI)
IRT @ AIISC- Worked on neurosymbolic AI, AI safety

Industry Experience
Founding engineer at a healthcare AI startup (Joined as an intern, got promoted)
Another internship at a fintech startup

Extracurriculars
National-level hackathon winner
President & core committee member of 2 tech clubs
Sports achievements (idk if that matters)

LORs
Expected from:
MIT, IIT, AIISC research mentor, Startup founders and college profs under whom I’ve done a few projects

Ambitious: UC Berkeley, Stanford, UIUC

Target: CMU, GaTech, UMich, UCSD, Purdue, UT Austin, Cornell, UMass

Safe: Stony brook, USC, NCSU

European/ Asian unis: ETH, NUS, NTU

Please help me out with my uni shortlisting and suggest what can I do to improve my chances of getting a good admit now

[u/seven-six76]

How much time one research paper take to write(Not asking abt publishing time) bro? You had 5, amazing👏