I work in a upcoming feild - Public health Informatics. I am MS in Comp Science and PhD candidate in Health Informatics. Both are from a reputed US university. I am a federal employee working with Bioterrorism surveillance and disease surveillance systems design. The following are some of my credentials
Prizes-
-Internationally recognized training fellowship for 2 yrs avg $55K sponsored by Federal Agency (5 awardess every year- applicants range from PhDs, MDs arounds the world- not restricted to students to work with the agency- i ended up with a job at the end of the fellowship)
-Finalist in a Internation Annual Conference (i did not win) but got prints of the finalist
-Winner is two annual awards for research in grad school
Memberships
5 International/National Organizations (few are open to anyone in this field, while some have requirements- not in the level of notable contribution)
2 National Interest Cohort workgroup (invited membership- leading one of the workgroup)
Published Material
-none
Judge or Panel
reviewer in 3 international conference (6 papers)
Reviewer of Government Contracts, Bids, cooperative agreements as a technical reviewer (3 contracts avg $6 mil each)
Business Related
Leader and organizer of 40 biweekly conf calls with 50 state leaders in the field ( effort is highly well spoken off in this field)
Invited speaker for a lecture in well known university school course
Invited speaker to a national conference and a cohort work group
Scholarly articles
3 conference presentation and 12 conference abstracts (no citations- reason is bcz the audience are state and local depts and i can get letters indicating how the paper has helped them but no citations as they rarely publish in this field.) - Infact there is no journal for public health informatics track.
Display of aliens work
10 posters at various national, internation conference
Demostrations of work by hosting booths in conferences
Critical role in org
work for CDC in a very critical role. Trained and certified in emergency management and crisis management. HHS certified project officer.
number of certifications project mgmt, comp security, team leader etc.
I understand it will be slam dunk for NIW, but what are my chances with EB1A?
please advice.
Arun
Prizes-
-Internationally recognized training fellowship for 2 yrs avg $55K sponsored by Federal Agency (5 awardess every year- applicants range from PhDs, MDs arounds the world- not restricted to students to work with the agency- i ended up with a job at the end of the fellowship)
-Finalist in a Internation Annual Conference (i did not win) but got prints of the finalist
-Winner is two annual awards for research in grad school
Memberships
5 International/National Organizations (few are open to anyone in this field, while some have requirements- not in the level of notable contribution)
2 National Interest Cohort workgroup (invited membership- leading one of the workgroup)
Published Material
-none
Judge or Panel
reviewer in 3 international conference (6 papers)
Reviewer of Government Contracts, Bids, cooperative agreements as a technical reviewer (3 contracts avg $6 mil each)
Business Related
Leader and organizer of 40 biweekly conf calls with 50 state leaders in the field ( effort is highly well spoken off in this field)
Invited speaker for a lecture in well known university school course
Invited speaker to a national conference and a cohort work group
Scholarly articles
3 conference presentation and 12 conference abstracts (no citations- reason is bcz the audience are state and local depts and i can get letters indicating how the paper has helped them but no citations as they rarely publish in this field.) - Infact there is no journal for public health informatics track.
Display of aliens work
10 posters at various national, internation conference
Demostrations of work by hosting booths in conferences
Critical role in org
work for CDC in a very critical role. Trained and certified in emergency management and crisis management. HHS certified project officer.
number of certifications project mgmt, comp security, team leader etc.
I understand it will be slam dunk for NIW, but what are my chances with EB1A?
please advice.
Arun