EE Undergrad,Delhi Technological University, entering 4th(senior) year
Field of interest:Power Electronics, Power systems

Finalist, overall 5th in International future energy challenge 2015
organized by IEEE USA and many other societies held in University of sheffield,UK
http://www.energychallenge.org/
Departmental rank 1, 79.8%
Head of reaserch, IEEE DTU student chapter
Formulated some small scale projects for Technical festivals in my junior years like “Analog sinusoidal pulse width modulated wave generator" , “Coil Gun using Thyristor" and many others
Creative head, DTU TIMES- official newspaper of DTU
Graphic designer since my junior year.

Have strong recommendations from the professor of my university.

Universities being considered:

North Carolina State University
University of Connecticut
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
UT Austin
CMU
Michigan State University
TAMU

I dont have any worthy research internships or paper as I was too involved in the competition. I do want to go for a reaserch career in the future
and was thinking to apply for masters. But only last week, i got to know that i can directly apply for Phd after
my graduation, and i am pretty interested in it.

Looking at my profile which is devoid of any internships and papers but a prestigious international competition, should i
apply for phd right after my graduation for FALL 2016, in which case i will be giving GRE in the coming months and focus on universities rather
than my reaserch work.

or

Should i continue my reaserch work, look for a internship under some good professor then apply for phd 1 year after my graduation
i.e., for fall 2017.