I am a very experienced AI expert.
But I don't know about your project, it will be clear when we will discuss each other.
I'm not sure what kind of your project is large scale or not.
It's sure what kind of AI projects II fininsh withing what you want now.
Main Projects are Hybrid Naive Classification, SVN, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, alphago-zero A3C, librutus CRF++ algorithm, so on.
Image recognition: face recognition, car plate number recognition, face swap technology, Image Net Kaggle competition, so on.
experienced GPU and Open CL programming for matrix optimization.
Best Regards.