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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

Give and receive advice, gain knowledge, and make connections. Our annual long-term mentorship program fosters meaningful long-term connections and provides targeted advice to early career researchers. 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.

All events WiML Workshop 2017 Long Beach, California December 4, 2017 08:00 am — 05:30 pm The 12th annual Women in Machine Learning workshop will be colocated with NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, California in December 2017. See the workshop website for details! The organizers are: Genna Gliner, Ehi Nosakhare, Maja Rudolph, Danielle Belgrave, Negar Rostamzadeh. The invited speakers are: Tamara Broderick, Hanna Wallach, Joelle Pineau, and Nina Mishra, with Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Raia Hadsell giving the opening remarks. Recorded talks can be found at this link . Previous Next

All events WiML Partner Event: New England Women in ML Event with IBM Research Cambridge, Massachusetts April 19, 2019 03:45 pm — 06:00 pm WiML is excited to announce an event by WiML Partner IBM Research in the Cambridge area. The goal is to encourage and support local women, especially students, post-docs, early career researchers and engineers, by offering seminars from thought-leading women in ML, providing opportunities to present their own research, and connecting them to mentors, role models and colleagues. Join the event this Thurs 6/20. Speakers and activities include: – A talk by Tamara Broderick (Assistant Professor, MIT) on “Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions”. – Reception immediately after the event. When: Thursday June 20, 2019, 4:00pm – 5:00pm with reception immediately after the event Where: IBM Research Cafe, 75 Binney St. Cambridge, MA Organized by IBM Research. Questions? Contact Preethi Raghavan at praghav@us.ibm.com . Thanks to the organizers Lisa Amini (IBM Research), Preethi Raghavan (IBM Research), Kristen Severson (IBM Research). IBM Research is a WiML Platinum Partner. Previous Next

All events WiML Reception @ NeurIPS Mexico City 2025 Ciudad de México, México November 30, 2025 9 am to 12.30 pm LatinX in AI is proud to share its joint affinity group half-day workshop, with Women in Machine Learning and Queer in AI, happening at the official co-location of the NeurIPS 2025 conference in Mexico City. For more information, please visit the event’s website here. This event will take place on November 30th at the Hilton Mexico City Reforma from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM. Registration WiML and LatinX in AI Reception — Sunday, November 30 Register here → https://luma.com/4g8258pe WiML and Queer in AI at LatinX in AI Workshop — Sunday, November 30 Register here→ https://www.latinxinai.org/registration Previous Next

All events WiML Partner Event: New England Women in AI Workshop with IBM Research Cambridge, Massachusetts September 19, 2019 02:45 pm — 06:00 pm WiML is excited to announce t he New England Women in AI Workshop by WiML Partner IBM Research in the Cambridge area. The goal is to encourage and support local women, especially students, post-docs, early career researchers and engineers, by offering seminars from thought-leading women in ML, providing opportunities to present their own research, and connecting them to mentors, role models and colleagues. This year, the workshop will include talks, a panel, and a networking reception highlighting the work of women in AI. All are welcome to attend. When: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 Where: Samberg Conference Center , 7th Floor, MIT Building E52, Cambridge, MA Registration: The event is open and free but registration is required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ibm-wiml-partner-event-new-england-women-in-ai-workshop-2019-workshop-registration-70284381477 . Organized by IBM Research. Questions? Contact Kristen Severson at kristen.severson@ibm.com . Thanks to the organizers Lisa Amini (IBM Research), Preethi Raghavan (IBM Research), Kristen Severson (IBM Research). IBM Research is a WiML Platinum Partner. Previous Next

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 Dinner @ ICLR 2019 New Orleans, Louisiana May 6, 2019 07:30 pm — 10:30 pm WiML is hosting a dinner at ICLR 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana 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 organizer is Jaelle Scheuerman. The invited speakers are Karen Livescu, Alice Oh, and Parisa Kordjamshidi. Date: Monday, May 6, 2019, 7.30pm-10.30pm Venue: Mulate’s, 201 Julia St, New Orleans Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wiml-iclr-dinner-2019-tickets-60212858280 SPONSORS -Platinum- Previous Next

We maintain a mailing list for the Women in Machine Learning network. Are you a women working in machine learning? Join our mailing list. Post directly in our mailing list. Mailing List We maintain a mailing list for the Women in Machine Learning network. Are you a women working in machine learning? Join our mailing list . Have a job posting, announcement, call for participation, etc? Post directly in our mailing list. The mailing list is intended for any female student, postdoc, academic researcher, industrial researcher, and anyone else who wants to post content relevant for this community. You do not have to be a woman to join the mailing list. Please post job postings, announcements, calls for participation, etc. directly to the mailing list. You can also use the mailing list to look for roommates at conferences, discuss machine learning topics, etc. Join/Post to Mailing List

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