I have more than 8 years of experience in machine learning and AI. I would like to apply for Exceptional Talent. I have shared my proposed documents and evidence for my submission. It would be great to hear your feedback.
Letters of Recommendation
I will select 3 of those.
- LOR1: The General Manager of the SBU where I worked as a Senior ML Engineer
- LOR2: CEO of the company where I worked as an AI Engineer and Senior ML Engineer
- LOR3: Associate Professor at the university where I taught, and who was the referee for my proposal for my start-up
- LOR4: The Group Technology Manager of the company where I am working during my PhD
Mandatory Criteria (MC):
- Explaining my leadership of a project for my employer to improve the features of the product in comparison to competitors (flowchart and image). Adding a reference letter from my manager to prove it. Referencing the paper and workshop presentation of the method at a well-known workshop in London.
- Runner-up in a national competition in AI and speech processing in Iran (which also has a worldwide version). I also won a reward. I will explain the competition with links to the pages and show the certificate of my rank among 30 teams in Iran.
- Showing my payslip and explaining my high salary in comparison to other programmers in my country.
Optional Criteria 3:
- I managed and developed a Persian handwriting project in 2020 and subsequently published a public dataset. I will share the link to the dataset, which has received 470 downloads in one year, along with a reference letter from my colleague on the project.
- I will explain my contribution and management in adding features to our company’s main product to support more customers in the field of AI and speech processing, along with a reference letter from my manager to demonstrate this.
Optional Criteria 4:
- I will show my PhD funding award at a Russell Group university in the UK, explain the importance and application of my PhD research in the UK, and share a reference letter from my supervisor.