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Board of Directors Established in 2009, the goals of the Board of Directors are to: (i) facilitate long-term activities, such as multi-year funding grants; (ii) ensure the continuity of the workshop across years; (iii) organize activities such as a mentorship network and additional activities unrelated to the workshop. Current board members are listed below. Sarah Tan, PhD WiML President Read More Akiko I. Eriguchi, PhD WiML Treasurer Read More Erin Grant, PhD WiML Director Read More Archana Vaidheeswaran WiML Director Read More Eda Okur WiML Director Read More Diane Oyen, PhD WiML Director Read More Tiffany Ding WiML Director Read More Nikita Saxena WiML Director Read More Natasa Tagasovska, PhD WiML Secretary Read More Alessandra Tosi, PhD WiML Vice President of Programs Read More Mandana Samiei WiML Director Read More Gloria Namanya WiML Director Read More Judy Hanwen Shen WiML Director Read More Laya Rafiee Sevyeri, PhD WiML Director Read More Shweta Khushu WiML Director Read More Giulia Clerici, PhD WiML Director Read More Tatjana Chavdarova, PhD WiML Vice President of Events Read More Caroline Weis, PhD WiML Director Read More Arushi GK Majha, PhD WiML Director Read More Michela Benedetti WiML Director Read More Luisa Cutillo, PhD WiML Director Read More Elizabeth Healey, PhD WiML Director Read More Tiffany Vlaar, PhD WiML Director Read More

< Back Clarissa Guevara Gomez Professor at Tec de Monterrey Clarissa Guevara Gómez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s in Public Policy from Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is also part of the fifth cohort in Strategic Political Communication at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). She has participated as part of the Mexican Delegation at the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-63) of the United Nations and at the XIV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a researcher within the Alliance’s fr Feminist AI Research Network, where she focuses on gender-sensitive data, femicide prevention strategies, and feminist approaches to artificial intelligence. She previously served as National Officer on Security and Justice and National Officer on Gender and Police Institutions at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), supporting institutional strengthening processes with a human rights and gender perspective. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Law at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she teaches courses on gender, justice, and public policy, and she also lectures in the graduate programs in Victimology and Security with a specialization in Crime Prevention at the University of Citizen Security of Nuevo León. She has served as a Mentor in the STEM Olympiads organized by the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), supporting young women and gender-diverse participants in developing scientific and technological trajectories grounded in social justice and community-centered learning. She was a speaker at the First International Congress of the Center for Critical Studies on Gender and Feminisms at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City): Critical Perspectives on Gender in Contexts of Artificial Intelligence, offering reflections on data ethics and feminist technopolitics. She also participated in the Encontro da Rede Latino-Americana de Inteligência Artificial Feminista – Confluências Tecnofeministas para Futuros Possíveis at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), contributing to regional collaborative efforts for situated, community-centered, and justice-oriented approaches to artificial intelligence. Previous Next

Past Mentors Here we highlight Past Mentors of WiML Sharmita Dey Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich Read More Love Allen Chijioke Ahakonye Senior Researcher at Kumoh National Institute of Technology Read More Sandhya Prabhakaran Applied Research Scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida Read More Clarissa Guevara Gomez Professor at Tec de Monterrey Read More Sidhika Balachandar PhD Student at UC Berkeley Read More

All events 5th WiML Mentorship Program for Post-Graduate Applications: Panel on navigating Master’s and PhD applications Online October 24, 2025 The 5th WiML Mentorship Program hosted its first panel discussion event , bringing together an engaged audience of women and non-binary individuals interested in pursuing research-oriented postgraduate degrees in Machine Learning and AI. The session focused on key aspects of navigating Master’s and PhD applications , with a rich and practical discussion that covered: Crafting an effective CV Preparing a compelling Statement of Purpose Approaching potential supervisors Requesting and managing recommendation letters An open Q&A session addressing participant concerns We were delighted to be joined by two outstanding panelists who generously shared their experiences and insights: Dr. Angelina Wang , Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech Dr. Simran Arora , Senior Research Scientist at Together AI and Assistant Professor at Caltech Moderator: Judy Shen, PhD student at Stanford University. This event marked an exciting start to our new mentorship series, aimed at supporting aspiring researchers as they navigate their academic journeys in ML and AI. We look forward to hosting more events that foster connection, guidance, and community across the WiML network. (edited) Previous Next

All events 3rd WiML Mentorship Program for PhD Applications: Panel on Fellowship Applications Virtual September 27, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm This event, part of the WiML’s 2023-2024 Mentorship Program on the theme of PhD applications, takes place 4-5pm UTC in Zoom. Mentors and mentees of the 2023-2024 Mentorship Program are invited to attend. Panelists: Luisa Cutillo (University of Leeds), Deepti Raghavan (Stanford University), Andreea Bobu (Boston Dynamics / MIT) Moderator: Erin Grant (UC Berkeley) Previous Next

All events WiML Luncheon @ ICML 2017 Sydney, Australia August 8, 2017 12:00 pm — 02:00 pm WiML is hosting a luncheon at ICML 2017 in Sydney, Australia. The goal of this event is to bring together female faculty members, research scientists, data scientists, and graduate students to meet, find mentorship, and learn from each other. Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 12pm-2pm Venue: Grand Ballroom at The Westin Sydney, Sydney Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wiml-icml-luncheon-2017-tickets-36123495347# If you see any errors or omissions or have any information to contribute to this page, please contact us at info@wimlworkshop.org SPONSORS -Gold- -Silver- Previous Next

All events WiML Workshop 2015 Montreal, Canada December 7, 2015 07:30 am — 06:00 pm The 10th annual Women in Machine Learning workshop will be colocated with NIPS 2015 in Montreal, Canada in December 2015. See the workshop website for details! The organizers are: Abbie Jacobs, Kate Niehaus, Svitlana Volkova, Maithra Raghu, and Ramya Ramakrishnan. The invited speakers are: Raia Hadsell, Lillian Lee, Been Kim, and Corinna Cortes, with Amy Greenwald, Hanna Wallach, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan giving the opening remarks. Previous Next

All events WiML Social @ CoLM 2025 Montreal Convention Centre (Palais des congrès de Montréal) October 7, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST Program Join us for a casual networking lunch designed to connect you with peers, leaders, and mentors in the AI community. You'll get to hear from experts, participate in mentorship roundtable discussions, and meet new people in our open networking sessions. We welcome and encourage participation from our allies! 1:00 PM | Featured Remarks from Leading Experts Nazneen Rajani (Collinear AI) Jessy Li (UT Austin) Arathi Mani (UK AI Security Institute) Anaelia Ovalle (FAIR) Our speakers would be around after the session should you wish to interact with them! 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Mentorship Roundtables and Open Networking Choose between open networking or mentorship roundtables: Balancing Career & Life with Julia Kreutzer (Cohere) and Mor Geva Pipek (Tel Aviv University) Keeping Pace with AI Research with Sweta Agrawal (Google) and Ruqi Zhang (Purdue University) Careers in Industry with Olga Golovneva (Meta AI Research Labs), Bahare Fatemi (Google), and Spandana Gella (ServiceNow AI Research) Responsible AI in Practice with Adina Williams (FAIR) and Saadia Gabriel (UCLA) Open Networking : Reconnect with old colleagues and build new connections! For additional information, check Luma or email at nikitasaxena@wimlworkshop.org . Organizing Committee Nikita Saxena Nikita Saxena is a WiML Board Member and was the co-liaison of the WiML@CoLM social. She is a Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, working on enhancing the multimodal understanding and generation capabilities of Gemini in close collaboration with Ishita Dasgupta and Isabelle Guyon . She graduated from BITS Pilani in 2023 with a dual major in physics and computer science. She completed her thesis at the Mila Quebec AI Institute under the supervision of Professor Yoshua Bengio . Santhoshi Santhoshi Ravichandran completed her Master’s in Computer Science at Mila / Université de Montréal, where she was a Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow, evaluating and fine-tuning web agents using reinforcement learning. Her past work spans detecting fraudulent transactions in capital markets and developing machine learning solutions to enhance accessibility for visually impaired users. Zena Kamel Zina Kamel is a research Master’s student in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila, where she is a McCall MacBain Scholar. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Lebanese American University in 2024 through the MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders scholarship. Her research focuses on improving reasoning and representation in world models. Minseon Kim Minseon Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, ML team, in Montréal. She received her Ph.D. from KAIST in 2025, where her thesis, “Towards Safe and Robust Representation with Self-Supervised Learning,” explored methods to improve model robustness and trustworthiness. Her research focuses on AI safety and controllability, aiming to design systems that can reason about context and handle ambiguous or risky situations more reliably. Recent work investigates context-aware inference, safety modularity, and efficient safety alignment techniques for large language models. WiML Board Organizers Erin Grant – D&I chair Tatjana Chavdarova – VP Events WiML Previous Next

All events 2nd WiML Mentoring Program for PhD Applications: Panel on Essay Writing Virtual October 6, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am This event, part of the WiML’s 2022-2023 Mentorship Program on the theme of PhD applications, takes place 9-10am PT in Zoom. Mentors and mentees of the 2022-2023 Mentorship Program are invited to attend. Panelists: Sinead Williamson (University of Texas Austin), Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge), Sanmi Koyejo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Stanford University), Awa Dieng (Mila) Moderator: Kristy Choi (Stanford University) Previous Next

All events WiML Reception @ CoRL 2017 Mountain View, California November 13, 2017 08:00 pm — 11:00 pm WiML is hosting a networking reception at the 2017 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). The organizers are Chelsea Finn and Coline Devin. Date: Monday, November 13, 2017, 8pm-11pm Venue: Steins Beer Garden, Mountain View Registration: Register during CoRL registration ( https://sites.google.com/a/robot-learning.org/corl2017/home/corl2017 ) If you see any errors or omissions or have any information to contribute to this page, please contact us at info@wimlworkshop.org SPONSORS Previous Next

All events 3rd WiML Mentorship Program for PhD Applications: Panel on Recommendation Letters Virtual November 9, 2023 5:00 pm - 6 pm This event, part of the WiML’s 2023-2024 Mentorship Program on the theme of PhD applications, takes place 5-6pm UTC in Zoom. Mentors and mentees of the 2023-2024 Mentorship Program are invited to attend. The panel topic is on “How to ask for a recommendation letter in Master’s & Ph.D applications in ML”. Panelists: Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London), Martha White (University of Alberta), Rose Yu (UC San Diego) Moderator: Erin Grant (UC Berkeley) Previous Next

All events WiML Social @ EurIPS 2025 Treehouse, Bella Center, Copenhagen December 3, 2025 10:00-14:30 We are happy to invite you to the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) social co-located with EurIPS 2025 at The Tree House, Bella Center, Copenhagen. Registration WiML Social @ EurIPS — Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Register here → https://luma.com/rs5val4p Be aware that, to attend the event, you must be registered to the EurIPS conference: https://eurips.cc/ The WiML @ EurIPS 2025 social will be held in person with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together members of the academic and industry research landscape for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas, and learn from each other. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in pursuing machine learning research are encouraged to participate. All genders are invited to attend. Program 10:00 - 10:10: Opening remarks 10:10 - 10:40: Invited talk - Lina Jaurigue: “Reservoir Computing for On-Device ML for Hearing Aid Improvement” 10:40 - 11:00: Best Posters Short Talks (10min each) 11:00 - 11:30: Panel: “Navigating uncertainty and long-term career sustainability in Europe’s evolving ML landscape” - Panelists: Isabel Valera, Lina Jaurigue, Vinti Agarwal 11:30 - 12:30: Networking/mentoring activities 12:30 - 13:30: Lunch +Closing Remarks 13:30 - 14:30: Poster session We’re delighted to host Google’s sponsor booth from 11:30 to 13:30! Organizing Committee WiML Social Organizers Ana Lucic ( Website : https://a-lucic.github.io/ ) I am an assistant professor in AI at the University of Amsterdam, with a joint position between the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, and the Informatics Institute. My work focuses on interpretable machine learning for the natural sciences. Previously, I was a researcher at Microsoft Research AI for Science, where I was one of the core scientists behind the Aurora foundation model. I was also a research fellow at the Partnership on AI. I have a PhD in explainable ML from the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke and Hinda Haned. My MSc and BSc are both in mathematics from McMaster University. Stella Grasshof ( Website : https://stellagrasshof.com/ ) I am an Assistant Professor in the Data Science section at the IT University of Copenhagen and at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. I hold an M.Sc . in Computational Life Science from Universität zu Lübeck and a Dr.-Ing. (PhD) from the Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany). My research lies at the intersection of human-centred machine learning and visual computing, with a focus on generative AI for images and video, human faces and motion, computer vision, and applications in mental health. Additionally, I am part of the Lundbeck Foundation Investigator Network (LFIN), where I serve as a board member. WiML Board Liaisons – WiML EurIPS liaison Giulia Clerici ( Website: https://clericigiulia.com/ ) -WiML Vice President of Events Tatjana Chavdarova ( Website: https://chavdarova.github.io/ ) -WiML Vice President of Programs Alessandra Tosi - (Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandra-tosi-824a78a3/ ) Thanks to our Sponsors! Platinum Gold Silver Bronze Previous Next