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Empowering Women in Machine Learning: Amplifying Achievements, Elevating Voices, Building Leaders, and Bridging Gaps to enhance the experience of women in machine learning. 14th Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2019) The 14th WiML Workshop is co-located with NeurIPS in Vancouver, British Columbia on Monday, December 9th, 2019. Speakers Logistics Program Call for Participation Committee FAQ Code Of Conduct Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science research. Search engines, text mining, social media analytics, face recognition, DNA sequence analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, healthcare analytics are just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely used. In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of theory and applications, it covers, the percentage of female researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science. Most women working in machine learning rarely get the chance to interact with other female researchers, making it easy to feel isolated and hard to find role models. The annual Women in Machine Learning Workshop is the flagship event of Women in Machine Learning . This technical workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to meet, network and exchange ideas, participate in career-focused panel discussions with senior women in industry and academia and learn from each other. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in machine learning research are encouraged to attend. We welcome all genders; however, any formal presentations, i.e. talks and posters, are given by women. We strive to create an atmosphere in which participants feel comfortable to engage in technical and career-related conversations. Now in its 14th year, the 2019 workshop is co-located with NeurIPS in Vancouver, Canada. Besides this un-workshop and annual workshop which is co-located with NeurIPS, Women in Machine Learning also organizes events such as lunch at ICML and AAAI conferences, maintains a public directory of women active in ML, profiles the research of women in ML, and maintains a list of resources for women working in ML. Invited Speakers Location This workshop takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, Canada. The workshop will take place in East Hall C . The poster sessions will take place in East Hall B . An important note on the NeurIPS registration WiML registration is separate from NeurIPS registration, and does not gain you access to any part of NeurIPS, whether the main conference, workshop, tutorials, or industry expo. You would still need to register separately for NeurIPS – their registration process can be found on their website . WiML Room Layout for Lunch / Mentorship Tables Logistics and finding roommates You may take advantage of NeurIPS group hotel rates, provided here . Book your accommodation as soon as possible as the discounted room blocks are being filled up quickly. In the past, workshop participants have also used Airbnb and hostels . Hotel cancellation policy should be checked with the hotels. WiML is not responsible for information provided on external websites. To find a roommate, please enter you information in this form , visualize the results here and contact other participants. In addition, you can get in touch with others on the WiML network . Childcare NeurIPS is kindly providing free onsite childcare to participants this year. If you only have a WiML registration, you can still use NeurIPS’s childcare on Sunday December 8 and Monday December 9. To access childcare from Tuesday on, NeurIPS registration will be required. For more information on how to register for the childcare service, please visit the NeurIPS childcare page . Visa NeurIPS has compiled instructions and information about the visa application process (see this link ). A visa invitation letter comes with the NeurIPS registration. If you don’t have the NeurIPS visa invitation letter, we can also provide you invitation letters upon successful registration to the WiML workshop. PROGRAM MENTORSHIP TABLES ACCEPTED POSTERS The 2019 WiML Workshop will be held on Monday, Dec 9th, 2019 in Vancouver, Canada. Workshop activities primarily take place in Vancouver Convention Center East Exhibition Hall C , with the exception of the poster sessions which will take place in Vancouver Convention Center East Exhibition Hall B . A pre-workshop reception will be held the night of Sunday, Dec 8th, 2019 from 7:30pm to 10:00pm in the Pinnacle Ballroom, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, 1128 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, V6E 4R5. Separate advance registration is required for the reception (see Eventbrite ), and there won’t be onsite registration. All participants are required to abide by the WiML code of conduct . Call for Participation The 14th WiML Workshop is co-located with NeurIPS in Vancouver, Canada on Monday, December 9th, 2019. The Workshop for Women in Machine Learning is a one-day event 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. There will be a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in machine learning. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in pursuing machine learning research are encouraged to participate. While all presenters will identify primarily as female or nonbinary, all genders are invited to attend. Submission is now closed. Please check back for information on how to register as an attendee. IMPORTANT DATES July 15th, 2019 – Abstract Submission Open on CMT August 15th, 2019 11:59pm PT – Abstract Submission Deadline September 1st, 2019 – Visa-Friendly (Early) Notification of Acceptance and Travel Funding September 21st, 2019 – Regular Notification of Acceptance October 15th, 2019 – Regular Notification of Travel Funding November 21st, 2019 – Registration Deadline (or earlier, if we sell out) December 9th, 2019 – WiML Workshop Day This year, WiML is introducing a Visa-Friendly (Early) notification of acceptance and travel funding on September 1, 2019. If you need to apply for a visa to travel to Canada, we encourage you to select this option in the submission page in CMT. If you do not need to apply for a visa to travel to Canada, please do not select this option. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We strongly encourage students, postdocs, and researchers who primarily identify as women or nonbinary in all areas of machine learning to submit an abstract (1 page PDF) describing new, previously, or concurrently published research. We welcome abstract submissions in theory, methodology, as well as applications. Abstracts may describe completed research or work-in-progress. While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we encourage authors to highlight the contribution of authors who identify primarily as female or nonbinary — particularly the presenting author — in the abstract. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work in a poster session. Authors with multiple accepted posters will be asked to select only one poster to present. A few authors will be selected to give spotlight or oral presentations. There are no formal proceedings. Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind setting. After submission, all authors will automatically receive an invitation for the reviewer pool, into which they can opt-in. Many student and postdoc authors who review for WiML will be eligible for travel funding (see further details below). Submission page: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WiML2019 (Submission is now open!) Style guidelines: Abstracts must not include identifying information. Abstracts must be no more than 1 page (including any references, tables, and figures) submitted as a PDF. Main body text must be minimum 11 point font size and page margins must be minimum 0.75 inches (all sides). Do not include any supplementary files with your submission. Content guidelines: Your abstract should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should convey motivation and give some technical details of the approach used. While we acknowledge that space is limited, some experimental results are likely to improve reviewers’ opinions of your paper. Acceptance criteria: All accepted abstracts must be presented by authors who identify primarily as female or nonbinary. Abstracts will be reviewed by multiple reviewers, who will use the following criteria: Is this abstract appropriate for WiML? I.e., does it describe novel research or an interesting application in machine learning or related fields? Does the abstract stand alone? Does the abstract adequately convey the material that will be presented? Examples of accepted abstracts from previous years can be found here , and advice on writing a one-page abstract can be found here . Due to the volume of submissions anticipated, we are unable to review any submitted materials besides the requested abstract. TRAVEL FUNDING Registration for WiML is free. Travel funding is available for presenting authors. To qualify, the author must be a student, postdoc, or equivalent position (equivalent positions include unemployed recent grads and early career researchers from underrepresented geographical areas), identify primarily as female or nonbinary, have an accepted abstract, and review for WiML. The amount of the travel funding varies by the author’s geographical location and the total amount of funding WiML receives from sponsors. In the past, funding ranging from $300-$1000 has been given. WiML travel funding is administered as reimbursements after the workshop and no funding is allocated before the workshop. If you are attending NeurIPS, we also encourage you to apply for NeurIPS’ volunteering and travel funding opportunities, which are separate and independent of WiML travel funding. Check the NeurIPS website directly for details. AREA CHAIRS If you are interested in being an area chair, please fill in the application here . The area chairs must identify primarily as female or nonbinary. The role of area chairs is to evaluate the reviews, write a final meta-review and suggest an accept/reject decision for each abstract. We expect each area chair to be responsible for up to 10 one-page abstracts. ORGANIZERS Sarah Aerni (Salesforce) Nezihe Merve Gürel (ETH Zurich) Michela Paganini (Facebook AI) Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh (Microsoft Research) Questions? Check out the FAQs or reach us at wiml2019[at]wimlworkshop[dot]org PLATINUM SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS SUPPORTER We gratefully acknowledge support for participant travel from: Committee ORGANIZERS Michela Paganini Postdoctoral Researcher, Facebook AI Research Connection Chair Bahare Fatemi Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research Senior Program & Mentorship Chair Nezihe Merve Gürel PhD Student at ETH Zurich Sarah Aerni Director of Data Science, Salesforce Finance & Sponsorship Chair WiML 2019 Reception Organizers Srishti Yadav (Research Scholar, Simon Fraser University) Meha Kaushik (Software Engineer, Microsoft) Diversity and Inclusion Chair Danielle Belgrave, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Supervolunteers We would like to acknowledge and warmly thank our super-volunteers who worked tirelessly to ensure a high quality un-workshop. Belen Saldias, MIT Elre Oldewage, University of Cambridge Mandana Samiei, McGill and Mila Niveditha Kalavakonda, University of Washington Seattle Weiwei Zong, Henry Ford Health System FAQs Do you have a list of members? How can I join WiML? WiML doesn’t have “members” per se, any women working in machine learning can be part of the WiML network. We have a mailing list for anyone to post announcements of interest to the WiML network and an opt-in, necessarily incomplete directory of women working in machine learning . How can I join the WiML mailing list? Join the mailing list directly here . What kind of events do you organize? Our flagship event is the annual WiML Workshop, typically co-located with NeurIPS, a machine learning conference. We also organize an “un-workshop” at ICML, as well as small events (e.g. lunches and receptions) at other machine learning conferences, such as CoRL, COLT, etc. Check out our events page for up-to-date listings of events. Do you have local meetups? No, but check out WiMLDS (website, Twitter), another organization that supports women in machine learning by organizing local meetups. How do I reach the WiML network? Use our mailing list . How can I sponsor WiML? Thank you for your interest in sponsoring WiML! See this page for more information. I am looking for an invited speaker / panelist / area chair / program committee member etc. Can WiML help me? Use our directory of women in machine learning or post this opportunity to our mailing list . I want to circulate a job posting. Can WiML help me? Post directly to our mailing list . How can I support WiML? You can: Post interesting opportunities and job postings to our mailing list . Use our directory of women in machine learning to find invited speakers, panelists, area chairs, program committee members, etc, or post these opportunities to our mailing list . Sponsor us. See this page for more information. Volunteer at one of our events. Check out our events page for up-to-date listings of events. Apply to be an area chair or reviewer at WiML Workshop (see this year’s workshop website for info). Take pictures at our events and share with us (tag @wimlworkshop on Twitter). If you see us mentioned in the media, send us a link at info@wimlworkshop.org . And many others! How did WiML start? What's the founding story? Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Lisa Wainer, and Angela Yu shared a room at NIPS 2005. Late one night, they talked about how exciting it was that there were FOUR female students at NIPS that year. They tried to list all the women in machine learning they know of and got to 10, then started talking about creating a meeting or gathering for all these women and perhaps others that they didn’t know about. Jenn, Lisa, and Hanna put together a proposal for a session at the 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that would feature talks and posters by female researchers and students in machine learning. The 1st WiML workshop was co-located with the 2006 Grace Hopper Celeberation. In 2008, WiML Workshop moved to NIPS (renamed NeurIPS in 2018) and there has been a WiML Workshop at NeurIPS every year since. In 2020, WiML introduced an “un-workshop” at ICML based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. Read more WiML history here ! I am a man. Can I attend WiML? Yes. Allies are welcome to attend! Note, however, that all speakers and poster presenters will primarily identify as women, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming, as our goal is to promote them and their work within the machine learning community. What are the mentorship roundtables? Each table seats 8-10 people (including mentors), with two mentors leading the discussion on a particular topic at each table. WiML attendees rotate between tables every 15-20 minutes. This allows attendees to gain exposure to different topics, and mentors to meet a large number of WiML attendees. Is WiML an archival venue? No, WiML is a non-archival venue. This means that, if your contribution is accepted, we will not be asking you to submit a camera-ready version of it, nor will we publish it anywhere (neither online nor in proceedings of any sort). We will only make the title and authors’ names available in the program book. I have a question that isn't answered here. How do I reach you? We receive a lot of email. Help us help you by reaching out through the appropriate channels. Job posting, announcement, CFP, etc: Post directly to WiML mailing list . Have event pictures to share: post on Twitter and tag @wimlworkshop Workshop enquiries: workshop@wimlworkshop.org If you are a company interested in sponsoring WiML: sponsorship@wimlworkshop.org Any other enquiries: info@wimlworkshop.org If you email us, don’t cc multiple email addresses — this saves us time routing your email to one mailbox, and reduces the chances of your email getting lost. Thank you in advance! Back To Top

Empowering Women in Machine Learning: Amplifying Achievements, Elevating Voices, Building Leaders, and Bridging Gaps to enhance the experience of women in machine learning. 13th Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2018) The 13th WiML Workshop is co-located with NeurIPS in Montreal, Quebec on Monday, December 3rd, 2018. Speakers Logistics Program Call for Participation Committee FAQ Code Of Conduct Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science research. Search engines, text mining, social media analytics, face recognition, DNA sequence analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, healthcare analytics are just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely used. In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of theory and applications, it covers, the percentage of female researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science. Most women working in machine learning rarely get the chance to interact with other female researchers, making it easy to feel isolated and hard to find role models. The annual Women in Machine Learning Workshop is the flagship event of Women in Machine Learning . This technical workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to meet, network and exchange ideas, participate in career-focused panel discussions with senior women in industry and academia and learn from each other. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in machine learning research are encouraged to attend. We welcome all genders; however, any formal presentations, i.e. talks and posters, are given by women. We strive to create an atmosphere in which participants feel comfortable to engage in technical and career-related conversations. Now in its 13th year, the 2018 workshop is co-located with NIPS in Montreal, Canada. A History of WiML poster was created to celebrate the 10th workshop, also held in 2015 in Montreal, Canada. Besides this un-workshop and annual workshop which is co-located with NeurIPS, Women in Machine Learning also organizes events such as lunch at ICML and AAAI conferences, maintains a public directory of women active in ML, profiles the research of women in ML, and maintains a list of resources for women working in ML. Invited Speakers Emma Brunskill Stanford Po-Ling Loh UW-Madison Raquel Urtasun Uber / University of Toronto Isabel Kloumann Facebook Megan Maher Apple Cascaded Dataset QA Lanlan Liu University of Michigan Jennifer Drexler MIT Amanda Rios USC Katherine M. Kinnaird Smith College Location This workshop takes place in Palais des Congrès in Montreal. Convention Center Rooms More details about the workshop and poster sessions will be provided shortly. PROGRAM MENTORSHIP ROUNDTABLES SPONSOR TABLES Sunday, December 2 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Registration desk open 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm WiML Dinner (Optional) (Separate registration required) Monday, December 3 All events are held in Rooms 517AB and 516C, except for the evening poster session, which takes place in Room 210. 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration Open 8:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am – 9 :10 am Opening Remarks – (WiML Organizers) 9:10 am – 9:50 am Invited talk 1 – Isabel Kloumann 9:50 am – 10:10 am Contributed talk 1 – Lanlan Liu 10:10 am – 10:30 am Contributed talk 2 – Megan Maher 10:30 am – 10:50 am Coffee Break 10:50 am – 11:30 am Invited talk 2 – Po-Ling Loh 11:30 am – 11:50 am Contributed talk 3 – Amanda Rios 11:50 am – 1:00 pm Mentorship Circles 11:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lunch + Poster Session 2:30 pm – 3:10 pm Invited talk 3 – Raquel Urtasun 3:10 pm – 3:30 pm Contributed talk 4 – Jennifer Drexler 3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Coffee Break 3:50 pm – 4:30 pm Invited talk 4 – Emma Brunskill 4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Closing remarks 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Poster Session 2 (co-located with NeurIPS reception) NeurIPS Main Conference (NeurIPS registration required) 5:00 pm NeurIPS Opening Remarks This year we have four categories of mentorship roundtables: Research Roundtables (Tables 1-15), Career Advice Roundtables (Tables 17-44), Company Career Tables (Tables 45-61). Monday, December 3rd: 11:50am - 1:00pm Tables subject to change Research topics Table 1: Reinforcement learning – Anima Anandkumar NVIDIA/Caltech Professor (post-tenure) Table 2: Bayesian optimization and causal inference – Eytan Bakshy Facebook Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 3: Balance: between academia and industry, work and life – Emily Fox University of Washington Professor (post-tenure) Table 4: Deep learning – Yarin Gal University of Oxford Professor (post-tenure) Table 5: Bayesian models, graphical models, learning theory and statistical inference – Po-Ling Loh UW-Madison Professor (pre-tenure) Table 6: Systems for ML – Kim Hazelwood Facebook Engineering Manager (former tenured Professor) Table 7: Causal inference and counterfactuals – Sara Magliacane IBM Research Researcher Table 8: Computer Vision – Adriana Romero Facebook AI Research Research Scientist and adjunct professor Table 9: Time series – Negar Ghourchian Aerial Technologies Director of AI Table 10: Robotics – Sanja Fidler University of Toronto, NVIDIA Professor (pre-tenure) Table 11: Healthcare applications – Tess Berthier Imagia Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 12: Fairness – Joaquin Quiñonero Candela Facebook Director of AI Engineering Table 13: Natural Language Processing – Aida Nematzadeh DeepMind Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 14: Social science – Svitlana Volkova Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 15: Recommender system, information retrieval – Putra Manggala Shopify Data Scientist/ Engineer Table 16: Data Visualization – Fernanda Viegas Google Research Scientist/ Engineer Career and general advice topics Table 17: Work life balance (industry) I – Dilan Gorur DeepMind Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 18: Work life balance (industry) II – Yinyin Liu Intel AI Head of Data Science, Intel AI Table 19: Work life balance (academia) – Isabel Valera Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Group leader Table 20: Life with kids – Corinna Cortes Google Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 21: Getting a job (industry) I – Been Kim Google brain Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 22: Getting a job (industry) II – Lily Hu Salesforce Research Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 23: Getting a job (academia) – Sinead Williamson UT Austin / Amazon Professor (pre-tenure);Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 24: Doing a Post Doc – Timnit Gebru Google Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 25: Academia vs. Industry I – Claire Vernade Google DeepMind Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 26: Academia vs. Industry II – Raquel Urtasun Uber ATG / University of Toronto Chief Scientist, Associate Professor Table 27: Research in Industry I – Joelle Pineau McGill University / Facebook Professor (post-tenure), Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 28: Research in Industry II – Lisa Amini IBM Research AI Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 29: Keeping up with academia while in industry I Ian Goodfellow Google AI Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 30: Keeping up with academia while in industry II David Vazquez Element AI Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 31: Surviving graduate school I – Chelsea Finn Google, UC Berkeley Postdoc;Professor (pre-tenure);Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 32: Surviving graduate school II – Priya Donti Carnegie Mellon University PhD student Table 33: Seeking funding: fellowships and grants – Sarah Tan Cornell / UCSF PhD student Table 34: Establishing collaborations – Eric Sodomka Facebook Research Scientist/ Engineer;Data Scientist/ Engineer Table 35: Joining startups – Rachel Thomas fast.ai Research Scientist/Engineer;co-founder Table 36: Career advice & Work/life balance – Neil Lawrence Amazon, University of Sheffield Machine Learning Director, Professor Table 37: Founding startups – Sarah Osentoski Free Agent Sole Proprietor Table 38: Scientific communication – Katie Kinnaird Brown University Postdoc Table 39: Networking – Inmar Givoni Uber ATG Sr Engineering Manager Table 40: Building your professional brand – Hanna Wallach Microsoft Professor (post-tenure);Research Scientist Table 41: Long-term career planning – Negar Rostamzadeh Element AI Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 42: Commercializing your research – Nesreen Ahmed Intel Research Senior Research Scientist Table 43: Finding Mentors – Feryal Behbahani Latent Logic Research Scientist/ Engineer Table 44: Junior faculty life – Emma Brunskill Stanford Assistant Professor Industry career tables Table 45: Careers @ DeepMind Doina Precup, Anna Harutyunyan, Daniel Toyama Table 46: Careers @ Facebook Amy Zhang Table 47: Careers @ Google Kristen Hofstetter Table 48: Careers @ IBM Lisa Amini Table 49: Careers @ CapitalOne Hongjun Wang Table 50: Careers @ Adobe Dhanashree Balaram Table 51: Careers @ Amazon Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Hongyi Liu, Cheng Tang Table 52: Careers @ Apple Michelle Chen Table 53: Careers @ Dessa Jodie Zhu Table 54: Careers @ Intel Jennifer Healey, Anna Bethke Table 55: Careers @ Microsoft Wendy Tay Table 56: Careers @ Samsung Daedeepya Yendluri, Ghazaleh Moradiannejad Table 57: Careers @ Unity Marilyn Hommes Table 58: Careers @ Element AI Perouz Taslakian Table 59: Careers @ Oracle Labs John Tristan Table 60: Careers @ Shell Neilkunal Panchal, Jeremy Vila, Mauricio Araya, Rayetta Seals Table 61: Careers @ Wayfair Patricia Stichnoth Recruitment Tables Recruitment tables from our major sponsors will be set up in room 516c for the duration of the workshop. Table A: Careers @ IBM Table B: Careers @ Apple Table C: Careers @ Samsung Table D: Careers @ Google Table E: Careers @ Unity3D Table F: Careers @ Amazon Table G: Careers @ Facebook Table H: Careers @ Adobe Table I: Careers @ Microsoft Table J: Careers @ Deepmind Table K: Careers @ Dessa Table L: Careers @ Intel Call for Participation The 13th WiML Workshop is co-located with NIPS in Montreal, Quebec on Monday, December 3rd, 2018. The workshop is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together faculty, graduate students, and research scientists for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas. There will be a panel discussion and a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in machine learning. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in pursuing machine learning research are encouraged to participate. While all presenters will identify primarily as female, all genders are invited to attend. Important Dates September 7th, 2018 11:59pm PST – Abstract submission deadline October 15th, 2018 – Notification of abstract acceptance TBA – Travel grant application deadline TBA – Registration Deadline December 3rd, 2018 – Workshop Day Submission Instructions We strongly encourage students, post-docs and researchers who primarily identify as women or nonbinary in all areas of machine learning to submit an abstract describing new, previously, or concurrently published research. We welcome abstract submissions, in theory, methodology, as well as applications. Abstracts may describe completed research or work-in-progress. While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we encourage authors to highlight the contribution of women — particularly the presenting author — in the abstract. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work in a poster session. A few authors will be selected to give 15 minute oral presentations. Submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind setting. Authors will be automatically added to the reviewer pool and asked to review. Student and post-doc authors who review for WiML will be eligible for travel awards. Submission page: WiML 2018 CMT Style guidelines: Abstracts must not include identifying information Abstracts must be no more than 1 page (including any references, tables, and figures) submitted as a PDF in NIPS format. Upload the PDF, do not paste in the abstract box. Do not include any supplementary files with your submission. Content guidelines: Your abstract should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should convey motivation and give some technical details of the approach used. While we appreciate that space is limited, some experimental results are likely to improve reviewers’ opinions of your paper. Acceptance criteria: All accepted papers must be presented by the submitting author, or another author who identifies primarily as a woman or nonbinary. Abstracts will be reviewed by at least two reviewers plus an area chair, who will use the following criteria: Is this paper appropriate for WiML? I.e. Does it describe original research in Machine Learning or related fields? Does the abstract describe work that is novel and/or an interesting application? Does the abstract adequately convey the material that will be presented? Examples of accepted abstracts from previous years. Due to the volume of submissions anticipated, we are unable to review any submitted materials besides the requested abstract. Travel Scholarships Travel Awards are available for presenting authors only. To qualify, the author must be a student or postdoc, their abstract must be accepted, and they must volunteer to serve as a reviewer for WiML. The amount of the travel award varies by the author’s geographical location and the total amount of funding WiML receives from our sponsors. In the past awards ranging from $300-$900 have been granted. All travel grants are administered as refunds and no funding is allocated before the conference. Area Chairs If you are interested in being an area chair, please email wiml2018@wimlworkshop.org with subject line “Area Chair for WiML 2018”. The role of area chairs is to evaluate the reviews, write a final meta-review and suggest acceptance/reject decisions for each abstract. We expect each area chair to be responsible for 10 short abstracts with each abstract having a maximum word limit of 500 words. Organizers Audrey Durand (McGill University) Aude Hofleitner (Facebook) Nyalleng Moorosi (CSIR) Sarah Poole (Stanford University) Amy Zhang (McGill University / Facebook AI Research) PLATINUM SPONSORS DIAMOND SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS SUPPORTERS BRONZE SPONSORS Committee ORGANIZERS Audrey Durand Mila / McGill University Aude Hofleitner Facebook Nyalleng Moorosi Google AI Sarah Poole Verily Amy Zhang Mila / McGill University / Facebook BOARD OF DIRECTORS Katherine M. Kinnaird (President) Smith College Allison Chaney (Vice President) Princeton University Jennifer Healey (Vice President) Intel Labs Jessica Thompson (Secretary) Université de Montréal Sarah Brown (Treasurer) Brown University Tamara Broderick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Raia Hadsell DeepMind Abigail Jacobs University of California, Berkeley Been Kim Google Brain Katie Niehaus Freenome Sarah Tan Cornell University / UCSF SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL Hanna Wallach (WiML Co-Founder) Microsoft Research / UMass Amherst Jenn Wortman Vaughan (WiML Co-Founder) Microsoft Research Emma Brunskill Stanford University Finale Doshi-Velez Harvard University Barbara Engelhardt Princeton University Marzyeh Ghassemi University of Toronto / Vector Institute Inmar Givoni Uber ATG Katherine Heller Duke University Pallika Kanani Oracle Labs Claire Monteleoni University of Colorado Boulder Sarah Osentoski Mayfield Robotics Svitlana Volkova Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sinead Williamson University of Texas at Austin Alice Zheng Amazon FAQs Do you have a list of members? How can I join WiML? WiML doesn’t have “members” per se, any women working in machine learning can be part of the WiML network. We have a mailing list for anyone to post announcements of interest to the WiML network and an opt-in, necessarily incomplete directory of women working in machine learning . How can I join the WiML mailing list? Join the mailing list directly here . What kind of events do you organize? Our flagship event is the annual WiML Workshop, typically co-located with NeurIPS, a machine learning conference. We also organize an “un-workshop” at ICML, as well as small events (e.g. lunches and receptions) at other machine learning conferences, such as CoRL, COLT, etc. Check out our events page for up-to-date listings of events. Do you have local meetups? No, but check out WiMLDS (website, Twitter), another organization that supports women in machine learning by organizing local meetups. How do I reach the WiML network? Use our mailing list . How can I sponsor WiML? Thank you for your interest in sponsoring WiML! See this page for more information. I am looking for an invited speaker / panelist / area chair / program committee member etc. Can WiML help me? Use our directory of women in machine learning or post this opportunity to our mailing list . I want to circulate a job posting. Can WiML help me? Post directly to our mailing list . How can I support WiML? You can: Post interesting opportunities and job postings to our mailing list . Use our directory of women in machine learning to find invited speakers, panelists, area chairs, program committee members, etc, or post these opportunities to our mailing list . Sponsor us. See this page for more information. Volunteer at one of our events. Check out our events page for up-to-date listings of events. Apply to be an area chair or reviewer at WiML Workshop (see this year’s workshop website for info). Take pictures at our events and share with us (tag @wimlworkshop on Twitter). If you see us mentioned in the media, send us a link at info@wimlworkshop.org . And many others! How did WiML start? What's the founding story? Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Lisa Wainer, and Angela Yu shared a room at NIPS 2005. Late one night, they talked about how exciting it was that there were FOUR female students at NIPS that year. They tried to list all the women in machine learning they know of and got to 10, then started talking about creating a meeting or gathering for all these women and perhaps others that they didn’t know about. Jenn, Lisa, and Hanna put together a proposal for a session at the 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that would feature talks and posters by female researchers and students in machine learning. The 1st WiML workshop was co-located with the 2006 Grace Hopper Celeberation. In 2008, WiML Workshop moved to NIPS (renamed NeurIPS in 2018) and there has been a WiML Workshop at NeurIPS every year since. In 2020, WiML introduced an “un-workshop” at ICML based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. Read more WiML history here ! I am a man. Can I attend WiML? Yes. Allies are welcome to attend! Note, however, that all speakers and poster presenters will primarily identify as women, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming, as our goal is to promote them and their work within the machine learning community. What are the mentorship roundtables? Each table seats 8-10 people (including mentors), with two mentors leading the discussion on a particular topic at each table. WiML attendees rotate between tables every 15-20 minutes. This allows attendees to gain exposure to different topics, and mentors to meet a large number of WiML attendees. Is WiML an archival venue? No, WiML is a non-archival venue. This means that, if your contribution is accepted, we will not be asking you to submit a camera-ready version of it, nor will we publish it anywhere (neither online nor in proceedings of any sort). We will only make the title and authors’ names available in the program book. I have a question that isn't answered here. How do I reach you? We receive a lot of email. Help us help you by reaching out through the appropriate channels. Job posting, announcement, CFP, etc: Post directly to WiML mailing list . Have event pictures to share: post on Twitter and tag @wimlworkshop Workshop enquiries: workshop@wimlworkshop.org If you are a company interested in sponsoring WiML: sponsorship@wimlworkshop.org Any other enquiries: info@wimlworkshop.org If you email us, don’t cc multiple email addresses — this saves us time routing your email to one mailbox, and reduces the chances of your email getting lost. Thank you in advance! Back To Top

Women in Machine Learning (WiML) is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to supporting women in the male-dominated field of machine learning. Through events and programs, WiML fosters a positive and inclusive environment for professional and technical growth. For media inquiries, interview requests, and collaborations, please reach out to our press email. press@wimlworkshop.org About WiML Women in Machine Learning (WiML) is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to supporting women in the male-dominated field of machine learning. Through events and programs, WiML fosters a positive and inclusive environment for professional and technical growth. Our Mission The field of machine learning, while growing immensely in scale and scope in the last decade, has a major lack of gender diversity: only 14% of authors of ML papers are women and on average, only 20% of professors are female. WiML’s mission is to enhance the experience of women in machine learning; toward this goal, WiML aims to: WiML creates opportunities for women to engage in substantive technical and professional conversations in positive, supportive environments. WiML also works to increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in the field (e.g. award nominations, invited speaker recommendations) to help ensure that women in machine learning and their achievements are known in the community. Our History and Achievements Since its founding in 2006, WiML has grown into a major force for inclusivity in machine learning. Some of our key milestones include: Annual WiML Workshop : Held alongside the NeurIPS Conference, our flagship workshop has grown from a small gathering to over 1,500 participants in 2021. Networking Events: We organize networking opportunities at ML conferences, fostering connections across the industry. Public Directory: Our directory helps conference organizers find women speakers and panelists in machine learning. Social Media Presence: With 17.2K followers on Twitter , we amplify the voices of women in ML. Mailing List: Nearly 7,000 subscribers receive job opportunities, event updates, and industry news. For media inquiries or interview requests, please reach out to our press email. Press Contact press@wimlworkshop.org

This page is a list of partners from prior years. Former Partners Our generous partners sponsor WiML’s events, activities and programs on an annual basis. We also seek sponsors specifically for WiML Workshop, our flagship annual workshop co-located with NeurIPS. For any inquiries regarding yearlong partners or workshop sponsorship, contact sponsorship@wimlworkshop.org. For any other enquiries, contact info@wimlworkshop.org . Former Partners 2024-2025 Former Partners 2023-2024 Former Partners 2022-2023 Former Partners 2021-2022 Former Partners 2020-2021 Former Partners 2019-2020

Empowering Women in Machine Learning: Amplifying Achievements, Elevating Voices, Building Leaders, and Bridging Gaps to enhance the experience of women in machine learning. 1st Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop The 1st WiML virtual Un-Workshop is co-located with virtual ICML on Monday July 13th, 2020. Speakers Logistics Program Call for Participation Committee FAQ Code Of Conduct Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science research. Search engines, text mining, social media analytics, face recognition, DNA sequence analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, healthcare analytics are just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely used. In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of theory and applications, it covers, the percentage of female researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science. Most women working in machine learning rarely get the chance to interact with other female researchers, making it easy to feel isolated and hard to find role models. The annual Women in Machine Learning Workshop is the flagship event of Women in Machine Learning . This technical workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to meet, network and exchange ideas, participate in career-focused panel discussions with senior women in industry and academia and learn from each other. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in machine learning research are encouraged to attend. We welcome all genders; however, any formal presentations, i.e. talks and posters, are given by women. We strive to create an atmosphere in which participants feel comfortable to engage in technical and career-related conversations. The workshop started at the 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration and moved to NeurIPS in 2008. A History of WiML poster was created in 2015 to celebrate the 10th workshop. This is the 1st WiML Un-Workshop and is co-located with ICML . This event along with ICML are virtual events due to COVID-19. The term “un-workshop” is based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. Different from the workshop, the un-workshop’s main focus is topical breakout sessions, with short invited talks and casual, informal poster presentations. Besides this un-workshop and annual workshop which is co-located with NeurIPS, Women in Machine Learning also also organizes events such as lunch at AAAI conference, maintains a public directory of women active in ML, profiles the research of women in ML, and maintains a list of resources for women working in ML. Invited Speakers Location This un-workshop takes place virtually due to COVID-19. Please note that the application form does not constitute registration for the WiML Un-Workshop. To attend the un-workshop, you need to register for ICML at https://icml.cc . There is no separate registration for the un-workshop. PROGRAM ACCEPTED POSTERS Call for Participation The 1st WiML Un-Workshop is co-located with ICML on Monday, July 13th, 2020. The Women in Machine Learning will be organizing the first “un-workshop” at ICML 2020. This is a new event format to encourage more participant interaction, especially with ICML going virtual this year. The un-workshop is based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. Different from the workshop, the un-workshop’s main focus is topical breakout sessions, with short invited talks and casual, informal poster presentations. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. Students, postdocs and researchers in all areas of Machine Learning who primarily identify as a woman and/or nonbinary are encouraged to submit one-page proposal to lead a breakout session on a certain research topic. While all presenters will identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary, all genders are invited to attend. Important dates May 26th, 2020 – Application form opens June 15th, 2020 – Deadline (anywhere on Earth) to apply for a breakout session, poster, registration fee funding, facilitating or volunteering June 22nd, 2020 – Notification of acceptance of breakout session’s proposals June 30th, 2020 – Notification of acceptance of posters, registration fee funding, facilitators, volunteers July 13th, 2020 – WiML Un-Workshop Day Various ways of participating in WiML u n-workshop Lead a breakout session: submit a proposal to lead a breakout session on a certain research topic. Facilitate a breakout session: assist breakout session leaders by taking notes and encouraging participant interactions and taking attendance. Present a poster: present a poster in a casual, informal setting. Volunteer: help with technical setup and in-event needs. Attend: participate in breakout session discussions. Breakout session proposals A breakout session is a 1-hour free-form discussion overseen by 1-3 leaders and with assistance from 1-2 facilitators to take notes and encourage participant interactions. We strongly encourage students, postdocs, and researchers who primarily identify as women and/or nonbinary in all areas of machine learning to submit a proposal to lead a topical breakout session. A complete proposal consists of a 1 page blind PDF (example here ) and the names and bios of leaders submitted separately in the application form. We strongly recommend having at least 2 leaders, with a diverse set of leaders preferred (see selection criteria below). The names of facilitators can also be provided if known at submission time. Otherwise, the organizers will match facilitators to breakout sessions. Breakout session leaders must identify primarily as women and/or nonbinary; facilitators can be of any gender. Only one proposal submission per leader is allowed. If there are multiple leaders, only one leader needs to submit the proposal. There are no proceedings. WiML registration fee funding is prioritized for accepted breakout session leaders who fulfill certain eligibility criteria (see details below) and do not have any other sources of funding. Breakout session guidelines: Role of leaders: Point-out key characteristics of your topic and make connections with other topics. Describe the key challenges in this research area on a high-level. Describe the key approaches on a high-level to provide intuition. Highlight possible points of discussion/goals to achieve during the session. Use graphics/imagery and materials e.g. slides as needed Encourage inclusive (rather than unilateral) discussions Role of facilitators: take notes and encourage participant interactions. Leaders and facilitators should anticipate a small additional time commitment before the un-workshop to receive briefing/training and a possible dry run. While the exact technology is still being determined, we anticipate using video-conferencing software (e.g. Zoom). Submission instructions for breakout sessions: Proposals must be no more than 1 page (including any references, tables, and figures) submitted as a PDF. Main body text must be minimum 11 point font size and page margins must be minimum 0.75 inches (all sides). Your proposal should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should provide a brief description of the topics you’d like to discuss, any relevant references, a plan for how you’d organize the time (1 hour) allocated for a session, as well as some ideas on how you’d encourage discussion and participant interaction during the session. The PDF must not include identifying information, as it will be reviewed blind. In particular, the PDF should not contain information of the leaders or facilitators. Instead, submit their information in the application form. Selection criteria for breakout sessions: The degree to which it is expected that participants will find the topic interesting and valuable. Diversity of leaders and facilitators, including diversity of experience/seniority, affiliation, race, viewpoint and thinking regarding the topic, etc. Plans for encouraging discussion and participant interaction during the session. Facilitators If you are interested in facilitating a breakout session but have not yet connected with anyone submitting a breakout session proposal, you can indicate your interest in the application form. Organizers will match selected facilitators to breakout sessions. Facilitators should anticipate a small additional time commitment before the un-workshop to receive briefing/training and a possible dry run. Posters If you wish to present a poster, submit EITHER a short abstract (max 1500 characters) OR a PDF of the poster (only if you have it already). The poster may describe new, previously, concurrently published, or work-in-progress research. Posters in theory, methods, and applications are welcome. The poster presenter must identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary; other authors can be of any gender. The poster presenter does not need to be the first author of the work. Only one poster submission per presenter is allowed. Accepted posters will be presented in a casual, informal setting. This setting is very different from formal poster sessions, e.g. at WiML Workshop at NeurIPS. While the exact presentation format is still being determined, it may be as simple as a webpage with poster PDF and pre-recorded video. There are no oral or spotlight presentations. There are no proceedings. Submission instructions for posters: Submitted materials may contain identifying information, as posters for this un-workshop are not reviewed blind. Your submission should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should convey motivation and give some technical details of the approach used. While we acknowledge that space is limited, some experimental results are likely to improve reviewers’ opinions of your poster. R egistration fee funding The virtual nature of ICML and this un-workshop allows individuals from all over the world to attend. By funding a number of ICML registrations, WiML hopes to further expand the range of participants at this un-workshop. To apply for funding, you should: identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary; be a student, postdoc, or have an equivalent position (equivalent positions include unemployed recent grads and early career researchers from underrepresented geographical regions). Accepted breakout session leaders who fulfill the above eligibility criteria and do not have any other sources of funding will be prioritized for WiML funding. Other participants are also encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to individuals from underrepresented regions or groups, first-time attendees of ICML or similar conferences, and individuals who would benefit the most from this funding. Funding recipients must participate in at least one breakout session as a leader, facilitator, or attendee. Due to limited funding, we may not be able to support everyone eligible; however, we hope to support as many eligible applicants as possible. We also encourage you to apply for ICML volunteer and funding opportunities, which are separate and independent of WiML funding. Check the ICML website directly for details. Volunteering We are seeking volunteers to help with technical setup and virtual technology testing before the event, as well as help during the event, e.g. letting people into Zoom rooms, etc. We may also need emergency reviewers for breakout session proposals. You can indicate if you can help in any way in the application form here . Participation instructions To participate in ANY of the above roles and/or apply for registration fee funding, please fill in this application form by **June 15, 2020**. Selected breakout session leaders, facilitators, poster presenters, volunteers, and funding recipients will be notified individually by the dates mentioned above. If you only wish to attend, we still recommend you fill in this form to provide your timezone and topic preferences. All participants are required to abide by the WiML Code of Conduct . Important note: This form does not constitute registration for the WiML Un-Workshop. To attend the un-workshop, you need to register for ICML at https://icml.cc . Submission is now open! Organizers Fariba Yousefi, University of Sheffield Caroline Weis, ETH Zurich Tatjana Chavdarova, EPFL & Idiap Research Institute Mandana Samiei, McGill University and Mila Larissa Schiavo Questions? Check out the FAQs or reach us at workshop[at]wimlworkshop[dot]org PLATINUM SPONSORS Committee ORGANIZERS Fariba Yousefi PhD Student at the University of Sheffield, General Chair Caroline Weis PhD Student at ETH Zurich, Finance & Sponsorship Chair Tatjana Chavdarova PhD Student at EPFL & Idiap Research Institute Senior Program and Networking Chair Mandana Samiei PhD Student at McGill University and Mila Breakout Program & Logistics Chair Larissa Schiavo Funding and Volunteers Chair Diversity and Inclusion Chair Rachel Thomas (fast.ai and University of San Francisco) Sinead Williamson (University of Texas Austin) Back To Top

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