Success Stories: EB-1A Approved for Assistant Professor in California in the Field of Computer Vision
On July 7th, 2014, We Received Another EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) Approval for an Assistant Professor in the Computer Vision (Approval Notice)
Position at the Time of Case Filing: Assistant Professor
Country of Origin: China
Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)
State of Residence at the Time of Filing: California
Approval Notice Date: July 7th, 2014
Processing Time: 10 days (Premium Processing Requested)
In this case, the client that we had the opportunity to work with was an Assistant Professor from China in the field of Computer Vision. He had conducted his research in the highly specialized area of large scale visual recognition, making computers recognize tens of thousands of different types of visual objects and concepts in images. His work had resulted in 12 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 2 filed patents; at the time that his case was filed, his publications had been cited at least 1,398 times by independent and leading researchers from prestigious institutions and organizations around the world, indicating the major significance of his work. He had also reviewed 51 manuscripts for distinctive, internationally-circulated journals. His superior level of expertise was confirmed in the following quote from an independent recommender, “This work, along with [Client’s] several subsequent papers, pioneered the topic of large-scale recognition in computer vision. The result of this work is a large-scale labeled image database of an unprecedented scale, millions of images labeled on tens of thousands of visual classes. It is hard to overstate its significance because it allows researchers from all over the world to build upon it and advance visual recognition techniques.” It was our goal to prove that our client qualified for classification as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability given that he sought to remain in the United States to continue work in the area of Computer Vision, and that his continued research would substantially and prospectively benefit the United States. With the proof and documentation that we provided, his case was approved in just 10 days.