I’m applying for the Exceptional Promise route (~2YOE) and would love your feedback
MC
- RL-based execution algorithms (product in company)
- In my current firm (algo trading) I am an active contributor in R&D of innovative equities execution algorithms
- The algorithm is SOTA in this domain (applied RL and convex optimisation)
- I participated in research, implementation and deployment (MLOps)
- This is a product we offer to our investor clients to better execute their trades
- Evidence: LOS from the tech lead, repo commits, letters from investors praising our new execution
- ML compliance automation model (product in company)
- This was in my prevoius job at a bank
- Using BERT model to match scripts embeddings
- Covering compliance on bank’s loans and overdraft applications (about 10k calls a month), leading to estimated 100k annual cost savings
- I found an innovative way to evaluate model against very imbalanced data
- Evidence: letter of support from senior data scientist in my team, repo commits
- Micro:bit (non-profit)
- Contributed as a team to develop the first end-to-end ML education module on the new micro:bit V2
- More than 1M micro:bits are distributed to Year 7 students in the UK to teach young students about digital technology
- Potential issue: This was a proof of concept, not sure if it’s deployed for education use in the end
- Evidence: github commits, letter of support from CTO of micro:bit
- AI Voice-based privacy assistant (open-source project)
- Created the world’s first AI assistant helping users with their privacy in a smart home environment, built as a skill for the Mycroft.ai voice assistant
- Used as a research probe in Department of Computer Science at Oxford
- Potential issue: Apart from researchers in the department my code has no other users
- Evidence: github repo and my commits, project report screenshot, screenshot of product, workshop presentation slides, LOS from research supervisor
- Exceptionally high salary
- Academic achievements
- I was accepted to study Computer Science at Oxford and graduated 5th in year (First-Class degree)
- I received college scholarship and other university level awards for my studies
OC2:
- Judge at OxfordHack 2022
- This Hackathon has over 150 participants with sponsors from big tech (Google, Microsoft etc.)
- I was on the judge panel alongside 10 others, giving out around 20 prices
OC4:
- We are publishing the research on the execution algo in a reputable journal
- Letter of support from professor involved in the project on my contribution
This is my first draft, would love for any general feedback. I’m also building a YouTube channel and participating in mentoring programs, which I hope can contribute to OC2.
Thanks in advance!