What is substantial merit?
"substantial merit" refers to the importance and value of the applicant's work, research, or professional endeavors.
How to prove “Substantial Merit”?
Step 1: Summarize the importance/impact of your research field.
Example: AI is crucial for transforming industries by automating tasks, analyzing vast data, and driving innovation. It enhances efficiency, accuracy, and problem-solving across sectors like healthcare, finance, and technology, playing a key role in addressing global challenges and advancing society. (Exhibit XX)
Step 2: Summarize what challenges you solved in your research filed, why it is important to your research field.
Example: One key challenge of AI is building high-quality training datasets. Dr. XX’s research addresses this critialc issues via xxxx . ( one sentences to summarize your research). Specially,
developing automated dataset cleanup methods. cite your research achievements.
automated data collection,
Step 3: add recommendation letter to show the substantial merit of your work if applicable.
Example: Professor XX from XX, is the famous researchers in XX fields, in his/her RL, he noted that , “Dr. XX’s research on training datasets building solves xx critical problems, helps on building better AI models, etc.”.
Done, so easy!