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All events WiML Social @ ICLR 2023 Kigali, Rwanda May 3, 2023 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Date: May 3, 2023 Time: 3:00-5:00pm Loc: Larder Terrace (in the Hotel of the conference center) The topic of the panel will be AI moving forward, leaving no one behind . We hope to get a conversation going regarding ChatGPT, international collaborations, copyright issues of foundational models etc. The program is: 3:00 pm - 3.45 pm Introduction and networking 3.45 pm - 4.30 pm panel discussion on “AI moving forward, leaving no one behind” 4.30 pm – 5:00 pm Networking roundtables Panelist Bios Panelist: Tegan Maharaj Tegan is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, an affiliate of the Vector Institute and Schwartz-Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, and a visiting researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University. She is also a managing editor at the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), the top scholarly journal in machine learning, and co-founding member of Climate Change AI (CCAI), an organization which catalyzes impactful work applying machine learning to problems of climate change. Prior to joining the iSchool, Tegan did her Ph.D. at Mila and Polytechnique Montreal, where she was an NSERC and IVADO-awarded scholar with Chris Pal. Her recent research has two themes (1) Real-world generalization, learning theory, and practical auditing tools (e.g. unit tests, sandboxes) to empirically evaluate learning behavior or simulate deployment of an AI system (2) Deep representation learning & predictive methods in ecological dynamical systems for impact assessment, policy analysis, and risk mitigation, especially for climate and common-good problems. Panelist: Kathleen Siminyu Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher focused on Natural Language Processing(NLP) for African Languages. She works at Mozilla Foundation as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Speech Recognition dataset and to build transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In this role, she is keen to ensure the diversity of Kiswahili speakers, in terms of age, gender, accent and language variant/dialect, is catered for in the dataset and models created. She would welcome opportunities exploring the application of speech technologies in education. Kathleen is also currently part of a committee constituted by the African Union to develop an Artificial Intelligence continental strategy for Africa. Before joining Mozilla, Kathleen was Regional Coordinator of AI4D Africa , where she worked with ML and AI communities in Africa to run research programs. One of these, a fellowship for African language dataset creation, led to the creation of over 9 African language datasets. For this work, Kathleen was listed as one of the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35 for 2022 . She has vast experience as a community organiser having co-organised the Nairobi Women in Machine Learning and Data Science community for three years and she continues to organise as part of the committees of the Deep Learning Indaba and the Masakhane Research Foundation . Supervolunteer: Hewitt Tusiime Hewitt Tusiime is a research assistant at the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Research lab at Makerere University with a particular interest in data science for finance and AI governance and ethics. She graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering. She has worked on several research projects related to the application of machine learning algorithms in agriculture, natural language processing, and finance. She also has extensive experience designing and developing protocols for system deployment, ensuring effectiveness, and a smooth user adoption process. She is passionate about the ethical and social implications of AI on different groups of people. She also oversees community engagement while working to achieve research project objectives and strengthen bonds of trust between communities and the project teams. Organiser: Caroline Weis Dr. Caroline Weis is currently an AI/ML Engineer at GSK.ai , working on clinical machine learning applications. Centered around multi-omics and multimodal clinical data, her projects leverage approaches from biomarker discovery, model interpretability and personalised healthcare. Caroline joined GSK.ai after obtaining a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare from ETH Zurich, where she developed early clinical machine learning applications for antimicrobial resistance prediction, through developing new kernel methods, adversarial domain adaptation and representation learning. Her research was elected for the Remarkable Outputs award of 2021 by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Prior to that, she has built an academic background bridging microbiology, biomathematics, and biophysics. She worked on protein X-ray scattering at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and gained experience developing machine learning applications for screening images at Genedata in Basel. She holds an MSc in Biotechnology and a BSc in Integrated Life Sciences. Previous Next

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All events WiML Un-Workshop @ ICML 2023 Honolulu, Hawai'i July 28, 2023 9:35 am - 10:50 am The 4th WiML Un-Workshop is co-located with ICML on Friday, July 28th, 2023. For more information or to register, please go here. Previous Next

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All events WiML Luncheon @ COLT 2022 London, UK July 3, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 am WiML is hosting a luncheon at COLT 2022 in London, UK. The event is meant to be a social and networking event for women and/or non-binary researchers in learning theory, as well as allies. There will also be a short AMA panel over coffee to exchange information about research and career questions with: Po-Ling Loh (Program Chair of COLT, Cambridge) Ciara Pike-Burke (Local Chair, Imperial College) Claire Vernade (organizer of this luncheon, Deepmind) Date: Sunday, July 3rd Location: London, UK Venue: The Royal Institution (conference venue). Lunch will be served in the “library”, which is the usual coffee break room. Registration: Please register by responding “Yes” to the question about the WiML-T luncheon when you register to the main conference ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/colt-2022-35th-annual-conference-on-learning-theory-tickets-324119880287 ) Previous Next

All events WiML Luncheon @ CoRL 2019 Osaka, Japan November 1, 2019 12:00 pm — 01:30 pm WiML is hosting a luncheon at CoRL 2019 in Osaka, Japan to bring together women in machine learning from different research areas and across all stages of their careers to meet, find mentorship, and learn from each other. The invited speakers are Anca Dragan, Yukie Nagai, and Chelsea Finn. Date: Nov 1, 12-1:30pm Venue: Senri Hankyu Hotel Osaka Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wiml-at-corl-an-event-to-celebrate-the-women-in-the-corl-community-registration-77723345619 SPONSORS -Platinum- Previous Next

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All events 3rd WiML Mentorship Program for PhD Applications: Panel on Research Statements Virtual October 23, 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. The panel topic is on “How to write a research statement for Master’s & Ph.D applications in ML”. Panelists: Emma Pierson (Cornell Tech), Sinead Williamson (UT Austin) Moderator: Erin Grant (UC Berkeley) Previous Next

All events WiML Workshop 2009 Vancouver, Canada December 7, 2009 08:00 am — 06:00 pm The 4th annual Women in Machine Learning workshop was colocated with NIPS 2009 in Vancouver, Canada in December 2009. The workshop website is no longer maintained. The organizers were: Finale Doshi, Inmar Givoni, and Farheen Omar, with faculty advisor Daphne Koller. The invited speakers were: Kristen Grauman, Dana Pe’er, Odelia Schwartz, and Michèle Sebag, If you see any errors or omissions or have any information to contribute to this page, please contact us at info@wimlworkshop.org Previous Next