MENTORSHIP
Give and receive advice, gain knowledge, and make connections
WiML is committed to advancing the careers of women and non-binary people studying and working in machine learning. Many of our events have mentorship roundtables that bring together mentors and attendees in close conversation on technical and career topics. Outside of events, our annual long-term mentorship program fosters meaningful long-term connections and provides targeted mentorship on specific topics that are selected every year, ranging from PhD applications to job seeking.

Mentorship History
5th WiML Mentorship: Post-graduate degree applicants and job seeker 2025–2026
The goal of this program is to provide mentorship to early-career women and non-binary people studying and/or working in machine learning. The program will run between September 2025 and May 2026. Application deadlines are indicated in the "Timeline" section. The website for the 5th mentorship can be found here.
4th WiML Mentorship: Ph.D. Applications and Job Seekers 2024–2025
The 2024-2025 mentorship grew its focus not only to support graduate degree program applicants, but job seekers, in partnership with WiML corporate partners. The website for the 4th mentorship can be found here [website].
3rd WiML Mentorship: PhD Applications, 2023–2024
The 2023-2024 mentorship continued with a focus on supporting members of our community applying to research-oriented degree programs in machine learning, including PhD and Masters programs. This year, WiML also received a grant from NeurIPS to support this work, and started funding mentees’ application fee expenses. The website for the 3rd mentorship can be found here [website]. The success of the mentorship so far was described here [NeurIPS website].
2nd WiML Mentorship: PhD Applications, 2022–2023
Building on the success of our pilot, the 2022–2023 mentorship narrowed its focus to support PhD applicants. This allowed us to provide tailored guidance throughout the PhD application process.
1st WiML Mentorship: Pilot, 2021–2022
Our pilot program in 2021–2022 was our first step toward establishing a formal, long-term mentorship community within WiML. The focus of the pilot was on general career development in machine learning, and the participants ranged from students to professionals.