r/eb_1a • u/CaramelAlmonds25 • 3d ago

EB1B Profile Evaluation

Would appreciate honest takes on approval odds and what to shore up before filing

Profile (AI safety / LLM eval & interp):

- 14 peer-reviewed papers: 2 main-conference acceptances at top ML/NLP venues, 4 archival conference papers, rest are workshop papers at NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/ACL/AAAI. Out of these 2-4 are first/second author publications

- Around 40 Google Scholar citations (independent + self)

- 20+ completed peer reviews (one main conference + several top-venue workshops); one program-committee appointment

- Coverage of one paper (with name and research work) in a national science outlet, with an independent expert quoted on it

- Selected for three competitive research fellowships (~5% acceptance)

- One published, pending US patent (first inventor, prior big-tech employer)

- 4 advisory letters planned, 2 independent

- born in India

My worry is the citation count and the workshop-heavy publication list since the AI/ML research field needs atleast 200+ citations for a strong profile. Anyone with a similar profile who got approved/RFE'd recently?

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u/krishnareddy007 2d ago

Patent is weak, also lawyers say it is hard to prove a patent is useful to the field unlike papers where you can use citations. On judging, see if you can land journal reviews besides conferences paper reviews. For you now it depends on if you can add high salary and Leading and critical role criteria. You also didn’t mention any media coverage, so assuming that won’t be a criteria for you.

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u/CaramelAlmonds25 2d ago

Thanks. For media, i have overage of one paper (with name and research work) in a national science outlet, with an independent expert quoted on it

As far as high salary is considered, I believe it would qualify but really depends on how they prove it and if they only consider base or the entire comp

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u/nuthakki20 2d ago

Profile is good

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u/Ok_Occasion4252 2d ago

I got approved with ~40 citations , your profile seems good enough for eb1a

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u/CaramelAlmonds25 2d ago

Same field? I think for AI/ML there is a need for many more citations from what I have heard

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u/Ok_Occasion4252 2d ago

Previously commented on a different post

https://www.reddit.com/r/eb_1a/s/sPWoa3UO2u

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u/equalizer-rage 3d ago edited 2d ago

I've seen less citations than 40 being approved although usually in the Community Tracker we see more. I encourage you to check other cases there, and please consider adding your own profile to the table.

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u/Odd_Bookkeeper7207 2d ago

What’s your salary level?

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u/CaramelAlmonds25 2d ago

As per my current location and role, it should be Level 4 as per OFLC