About TECVICO
TECVICO aims to build an easier life through expansion of virtual collaborations which are organized by international research and industrial groups. This approach speeds up growth of AI applications in various fields such as medicine, electrical, mechanical, medical physics and others. To this end, our research and industry teams are developing advanced designs to accomplish the projects. All groups are provided with experienced advisors and members and progress of the projects are recorded by company’s experts. The company leads the teams to succeed. The company obtains some new instruments including powerful GPU, Cloud, new large datasets, prepared packages and others for the groups. Company also observes fair share of financial and spiritual benefits from the projects for members.
TECVICO sections
TECVICO is divided into four sections:
Research :
TECVICO is an international company that aims to facilitate the connection between researchers worldwide. Thus, it obtains an international platform to define the research project. Experienced researchers, university professors, industrial companies, laboratories, and others can define and fund the project on this platform, and other researchers... are able to observe and participate in the projects. Moreover, all levels of scientists (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) can join TECVICO and undertake a part of projects. Company experts and research director first evaluate all projects. These projects are sent to at least two reviewers for final evaluation. An expert is associated with each research project and follows it to accomplish. The company provides the projects with services such as GPU, Powerful database, algorithms, programs, and others. TECVICO evaluates researchers and determines some badges for them. Each researcher with a higher badge has more chance to be accepted via the project's main supervisor. In short, TECVICO provides experts with international projects as well as industrial projects with international experts. Moreover, it facilitates and accelerates finding appropriate international collaborators for research projects that need teammates. At least two reviewers will evaluate the projects before submitting them to journals and conferences or delivering them to the clients. Thus, quality assurance checks enable the production of high-quality products.
Competition :
TECVICO provides a platform to make practical and scientific teams that participate in prestigious world competitions. An expert is associated with each team or competition and provides it with company services such as GPU, datasets, algorithms, programs, and others. The experts follow the teams until the end of the competition. They also control the benefits from the projects shared with members. In short, it facilitates and accelerates finding appropriate international collaborators for competition groups that need teammates.
Industry :
TECVICO is an international company that aims to connect industries and researchers/experts. Thus, it obtains an international platform to define the industrial project. Industrial companies, laboratories, and others can define and fund the project on this platform, and other researchers are able to observe and undertake the projects. Moreover... , all levels of scientists (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) can join TECVICO and undertake a part of projects. Company experts and industry director first evaluate all projects. These projects are sent to at least two industrial reviewers for final evaluation. An industry expert is associated with each industrial project and follows it to accomplish. The company provides the projects with services such as GPU, Powerful database, algorithms, programs, and others. TECVICO evaluates researchers and determines some badges for them. Each researcher with a higher badge has more chance to be accepted via the project's main supervisor. In short, TECVICO provides researchers with international projects as well as industrial projects with professional experts. After completing an industrial project, its members will get the financial benefits of the fund according to their contributions and points that the project's supervisor assigns to each member. The industrial experts also control the benefits from the projects shared with members. Moreover, it facilitates and accelerates finding appropriate international collaborators for industrial projects requiring teammates. At least two reviewers will evaluate the projects before delivering them to the clients. Thus, quality assurance checks enable the production of high-quality products.
Workshop :
TECVICO obtains an international platform to hold or participate scientific, business, and practical workshops. Furthermore, it aims at supporting new workshop holders to expand their business. It also plans to facilitate holding workshops for experienced researchers and business people. Thus, it tries to advertise the workshop to absorb members from different countries internationally.... TECVICO provides all students and scientists with some discounts. Moreover, providing TECVICO membership can help the interested people to have cheaper orders. All workshops are first evaluated by experts and professional reviewers to have valuable content and logical cost and a specific expert follows each workshop to accomplish successfully. All members and workshop presenters are provided with the international TECVICO certificate.
About TECVICO
TECVICO Corp (Technological Virtual Collaboration Corporation) is an international company founded by Dr. Mohammad Reza Salmanpour in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 2020. It aims to facilitate the connection between industry and researchers/experts. Headquarter of TECVICO is located in Canada, and its researchers are collaborating virtually from different countries, such as Portugal, Iran, Canada, Germany, India, and other countries.
Vision
Our Vision is to become one of the largest platforms for offering
About TECVICO
Establishment and facilitation of international virtual collaboration among the researchers and industry.
Objectives
Facilitating the communication of international professors and students in order to collaborate in research or industrial projects.
Speeding up the process of finding and applying for the industrial projects for university professors.
Supporting young and recently employed assistant professors by adding knowledgeable and motivated members to their team.
Providing a friendly environment for collaboration of international students and professors by holding workshops etc.
Assuring the accomplishment of the project to meet the quality and timing requirements of the target industry.
Assuring the accomplishment of the project to meet the quality and timing requirements of the target industry.
Supplying the executive teams with international specialists to accomplish the corresponding projects.
Training and involving talented students in industrial projects and real world problems
Comprehension of the client’s goals, challenges, and unique work environments.
Facilitating the process of money transfer/distribution among the executive and technical team
Services
Providing the industry with the progress feedback and report, upon their request, during the execution of the project to constantly keep them in the technical progress loop if required.
Summative and formative evaluation of the project by a professional quality assurance team consisting of experts in the corresponding field
Holding technical workshops by our professional teams for training avid students and members around the world, which also provides a friendly environment for efficient collaboration among the members of our company.
Identifying the most compatible and knowledgeable supervisor(s), for every targeted industrial project, by our management team to collaborate on developing a suitable proposal. The collaboration ensures that all the required resources are provided for executing the project.
Providing the supervisor(s) of every project with suitable specialists and talented students from out of members if required.
Services
Providing legal contracts to ensure all the expected benefits for all stakeholders involved in the ownership, management, and execution of every project. (may require a professional lawyer)
Consulting projects by our experts. Some projects suggested our company
Our platform for applying the industrial projects creates the environment for supporting young and recently employed assistant professors. Any technical team possesses at least one supervisor who are scientist and industrial celebrities and some experts who have recently employed as assistant professors.
What researchers can apply for TECVICO?
All levels of researchers (beginner, intermediate, and advance) can join TECVICO and apply for projects. The current projects are mainly defined in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. In addition, TECVICO is interested in working on other fields, such as Cryptography, Electrical, Mechanical, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, etc
There are three components to each project:
• Responsibility coin
• Knowledge coin
It contains various aspects, such as attending all weekly meetings, being on-time to deliver a task, being responsible for his/her words and behavior, etc. Depending on the responsibility of supervisors in different projects, they are assigned points by the company. These points are convert-able to Responsiveness Coins. These coins have financial value and can be bought/sold. The applicants basically need responsibility and knowledge coins to apply for these projects. There are 3 ways to obtain responsibility coins as follows: i) initial fee ($) to buy the coins, ii) work in some sections of thecompany and responsibility coins will be paid the applicant as his/her wage, and iii) corporate in projects and receive the coins as reward toward accomplishing the project. In fact, this kind of coin evaluate and motivate members attend in all weekly meetings, be on-time to do assigned tasks, be responsible for his/her words and behavior etc. The applicants will be provided with knowledge coins via i) scientific interview, and ii) accomplishing and promoting his/her knowledge in the project.
TECVICO sections
Research section: research projects are basically referred to this section. Some time, small industrial project will also be associated with this section. To join TECVICO, all applicants must apply for some projects in this section unless they are able to receive minimum knowledge coin via interview process. After passing this section and qualified (obtaining responsibility and knowledge coins), applicants can join other sections. TECVICO invites the international laboratories, university professors, industry companies, governments, factories etc. to give the project to us. Especially, we will provide the university professors and lab supervisors with experts. As it is obvious, the professors are undertaking some big projects form industries or governments. They divide the project into smaller parts and then hire some students and researchers to do it. The divisions most often include various fields or interdisciplinary projects, and the lab members might not be expert in some fields. In this case, the supervisor can give a section of project to TECVICO. Thus, TECVICO promises to provide the project with experts and lead it to be accomplished. Some time, a project is assigned a researcher/student and s/he is not able to accomplish it. In this case, TECVICO can collaborate with the lab and provide the group with a professional teammate. After being accomplished the project, the members will be provided with i) responsibility coins, ii) knowledge coins, and iii) wage ($) (if the project was already funded). If the project also results in an article, the members will be considered as the authors based on their effort and supervisor’s/company’s rule.
TECVICO sections
Competition section: This section is focusing on participating in prestigious world competitions such as Kaggle, HECTOR etc. To apply to some competitions in this section, members need to obtain knowledge coins unless they are able to receive minimum knowledge coin via interview process. Furthermore, they also need requested responsibility coins to apply for a competition. Each member will benefit from the coopetition if the team win in it. If the competition results in an article, the members will be considered as the authors based on their effort and supervisor’s/company’s rule. After being successfully accomplished the competition, the members will be provided with i) responsibility coins, ii) knowledge coins.
TECVICO sections
Industry section: Industrial projects with high cost are directly associated with this section. To enter this section, the applicants need a considerable number of responsibility and knowledge coins. Experienced professors and professional companies such as consulting companies etc. are allowed to undertake these projects. Each professor or company must hire at least half of the members from our experienced international scientists, who have enough knowledge and responsibility coins. The members will benefit from responsibility, knowledge coins and wage ($). If the project results in an article, the members will be considered as the authors based on their effort and supervisor’s/company’s rule.
Who can be a supervisor?
Experienced scientists with high academic degree can be considered supervisor. Supervisors must hire and lead the members to accomplish the projects. They must also present a proposal to get the project or define a research project. TECVICO will invite these supervisors to review proposals, the papers, reports, etc
Which supervisors/members can undertake a project?
TECVICO considers an experienced supervisor as a contractor. Supervisors can define some projects in research section. These supervisors must present a proposal and then TECVICO will evaluate the proposal. If the result of evaluation is positive, the supervisor can start the project via spending some responsibility and knowledge coins. Applicants can also apply for these projects via spending their mentioned coins. Some research projects can be funded via some industrial companies, hospitals etc. at the beginning of the project or during doing the project. Thus, these projects are called funded projects. Small industrial projects are associated with research section. Supervisors can also apply for these projects via presenting proposal. Finally, supervisor is able to undertake the project via company’s approval. Meanwhile, the new projects will be noticed via member dashboard or news section or social media.
How to Join TECVICO?
If you would like to join TECVICO, click on http://TECVICO.com. At the top-right corner of the home page, click on "Join Us" and fill the form out, upload your resume, and then click on "Register".
Apply to Industry Projects
The project has first been approved by the Technical Manager and its research areas have been identified. Each professor/company can apply for this project in accordance with their field and experience/knowledge. professors/companies need a valid warranty before undertaking the project. Although, multiple professors/companies might apply for the project, the company selects the best Supervisor/company among the competitors.
Structure of members in a project
Each project includes 4 categories as follows:
1) Supervisors/advisors
2) Mentor
3) Member
4) Learner
Each project includes at least a supervisor. Multiple advisors can apply for this
project. At the end, the first supervisor will select the best advisors and supervisors.
Also, multiple members, mentors and learners can request to project to join in. Thus,
the first supervisor will select the individuals based on their knowledge and
responsibility. The supervisor and advisors lead the mentors, members and learners to
accomplish the project.
Note: It is good to know that an increase in the number of individuals resulted in less
percentage of benefits for the supervisor.
Projects management by supervisor
During the project, The supervisor must update the company from progression in the project. Also, the supervisor commits to accomplish the project on time. If the supervisor needs more time to carry the project out, he must request the company.
How to Suggest Research Project
Supervisors can define their own projects in the company. To do this, they should go to the “Suggest Research Project” section through their dashboard. This section includes a form to define a project. The form consists of different parts: relevant title, description of the project including start date, end date, project supervisors, requirements and support. After the company accepted the proposal, project status will be change to new project and everybody can observe and request it in their dashboard.
What sector do we start from?
The entrance gate is the research sector. After working in this sector and being qualified by gaining enough Responsiveness Fee and Badges, researchers can join other sectors.
Apply to industry projects
By working in the research sector and acquiring enough Responsiveness Fee and Badges, a researcher will be eligible to join the industrial sector and projects. Obviously, the requirement Res Fee for project members would be different in a way that higher level members need more Res Fees.
Money is sweeter than honey!Money is sweeter than honey!
Payments and bonuses are proportional to a member's contribution for completion of a project. There's a Chinese proverb that says, "If you try, you'll be rewarded!!
Entry permissions
Now, we reached the interesting part of TECVICO, Entry permissions!! Entry permissions are entry permits for projects. They are divided into two main classes:
1. Responsiveness Fee (Res Fee): This indicates how much a member was responsible for projects that he/she already attended. It contains various aspects, such as attending all weekly meetings, being on-time to deliver a task, being responsible for his/her words and behavior, etc. Depending on the responsibility of researchers in different projects, they are assigned points by projects' supervisors. These points are convert-able to Responsiveness Fee. If a researcher cannot afford to pay Responsiveness Fee, he/she can work for TECVICO as an intern or a trial member for a while and after gaining enough points, he/she can join a project.
2. Badges: This Badges shows how much a member knows a subject and how much he/she is skilled in programming, using tools and software. Depending on how much members were successful to use their skills and knowledge to proceed on a project, they are given points. These points are given by supervisors. Based on these points, researchers are awarded Badges. These Badges cannot be traded, and are only acquired through projects. They play a crucial role in getting into Competition and Industry projects. If a member wants more Res Fee to join projects with more funds, it is recommended to choose projects that suit his/her abilities and complete them in the best possible way.
More effort, More (Res Fee)!Apply for a Project
Payments and bonuses are proportional to a member's contribution for completion of a project. There's a Chinese proverb that says, "If you try, you'll be rewarded!!
Joining TECVICO
If you want to be a member of TECVICO, click on http://TECVICO.com. At the top-right corner of the Home page, click on "Join Us" and insert your information, upload your resume, and then click on "Register". Be careful! To complete the information, after registration you need to enter the profile section and insert the required information.
Project Members
Each project includes a "Supervisor" as a project manager, a "Mentor" as an advisor, a "Member" as a project member, and a "Learner" as an intern. Required (Res Fee) to join a project are different for each role, and higher roles need more (Res Fee). You can join a project as a learner and earn (Res Fee) by proceeding on that project, but unlike other roles, you would not get other project's benefits, such as publication benefits.
How to Apply for Projects
After registering on TECVICO website, a section called "Projects" will be shown in your dashboard, and by selecting that, you will enter the projects page. On this page, you can choose the type of projects you want from "Research", "Competition", and "Industry" sectors. Finally, by clicking on the "New" tab, you can see all the newly defined projects, along with their information, including their names, abstracts/requirements/support of the project, start and end dates, their collaborators, and the required (Res Fee) to join them. To apply for any of these projects, you must have the minimum required (Res Fee) to join that project. Be careful in choosing projects since by choosing a project that is not suitable for you, you might lose all of your initial (Res Fee). So, choose projects that fit your skills, abilities, and interests.
What are Projects' Benefits?
Projects' benefits are different and are only given after completing projects. They can be:
1. Financial benefits (money) based on your contributions in a project.
2. Scientific and Publication benefits (having your names in scientific publications).
3. Having work experience in an international company and adding that to your resume.
4. Receiving a certificate (after confirmation) from TECVICO.
TECVICO Progress = Your Progress
The whole company and its members are like the organs of a body and have common goals. To achieve these goals, TECVICO and its members are aligned and need each other to move forward. The progress and loss of TECVICO directly affect the progress and loss of the members, and vice versa.
Future plans and directions of TECVICO
TECVICO aims to continue the course of development in different fields and grant branches in different countries around the world.