How I wrote a machine learning paper in 1 week that got accepted to International Conference in Machine Learning Applications

One year ago, I raised $ 8.8 millions to build OpenBB Terminal full time. But since I was working at a startup in the UK, I had a 3 month notice period.

During that time I worked on documenting pretty much everything I had been working on, BUT that felt short. I felt like the data that came out of our NURVV Run product could be used with a machine learning algorithm in order to detect a foot strike quite efficiently.

So I asked my company:

If I use my spare time to work on this paper will you sponsor me if I get accepted?

My goal was to increase the visibility of our product in academia. And given I spent some time reading papers in the area, I knew that what I had in mind had a shot at working.

My background is not data science, and this was my first time “officially” working on machine learning. I wasn’t 100% sure that my idea would work, but after spending more than 1 year at the company, I knew how the data behaved. I thought I could build an algorithm robust enough to be able to detect a foot strike more efficiently than what others had.