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Opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other Read more The annual Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS, is our flagship event. ABOUT WiML WORKSHOPS Opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other The annual Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop, co-located with NeurIPS, is our flagship event. This day-long technical workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and learn from each other. 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. 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. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. Professional and technical Open to all genders and inclusive Positive and productive WiML ORGANIZERS Gratitude to Workshop Organizers: WiML's Foundation and Inspiration WiML was founded in 2006 by Hanna Wallach, Jenn Wortman, and Lisa Wainer, with faculty advisor Amy Greenwald. 2007 workshop organizers: Hila Becker and Bethany Leffler. Faculty advisor Lise Getoor. 2008 workshop organizers: Luiza Antonie, Anna Koop, and Jo-Anne Ting. Faculty advisor Joelle Pineau. 2009 workshop organizers: Finale Doshi, Inmar Givoni, and Farheen Omar. Faculty advisor Daphne Koller. 2010 workshop organizers: Diane Oyen, En-Shiun Annie Lee, and Kate Saenko. Faculty advisor Marie desJardins. 2011 workshop organizers: Nevena Lazic, Monica Babes-Vroman, Rongjing Xiang. Faculty advisor Hanna Wallach. 2012 workshop organizers: Tamara Broderick, Minmin Chen, Pallika Kanani, and Tejaswini Narayanan. Faculty advisor Raquel Urtasun. 2013 workshop organizers: Jennifer Healey, Katie Kinnaird, Talieh S. Tabatabaei, Sonia Todorova 2014 workshop organizers: Allison Chaney, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Sarah Brown, and Jessica Thompson. 2015 workshop organizers: Abbie Jacobs, Kate Niehaus, Svitlana Volkova, Maithra Raghu, Ramya Ramakrishnan. Website 2016 workshop organizers: Diana Cai, Deborah Hanus, Sarah Tan, Isabel Valera, Rose Yu. Website 2017 workshop organizers: Genna Gliner, Ehi Nosakhare, Maja Rudolph, Danielle Belgrave, Negar Rostamzadeh. Website 2018 workshop organizers: Aude Hofleitner, Audrey Durand, Nyalleng Moorosi, Sarah Poole, Amy Zhang. Website 2019 workshop organizers: Michela Paganini, Sarah Aerni, Forough Poursabzi Sangdeh, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Bahare Fatemi. Website 2020 un-workshop organizers: Fariba Yousefi, Caroline Weis, Tatjana Chavdarova, Mandana Samiei, Larissa Schiavo. Website 2020 workshop organizers: Xinyi Chen, Erin Grant, Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan, Xenia Miscouridou, Judy Hanwen Shen, Raquel Aoki, Belen Saldias, Melissa Woghiren, Elizabeth Wood. Website 2021 un-workshop organizers: Beliz Gokkaya, Wenshuo Guo, Arushi Majha, Hadia Mohmmed Osman Ahmed Samil, Berivan Isik, Liyue Shen, Olivia Choudhury, and Vaidheeswaran Archana. Website 2021 workshop organizers: Boyi Li, Mariya I. Vasileva, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Meera Desai, S. Aga Lee, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatlam, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka Okafor. Website 2022 un-workshop organizers: Paula Gradu, Vinitra Swamy, Giulia Clerici, Mozhgan Saeidi, Noor Sajid, Yina Lin, Shweta Khushu, Deeksha Shama. Website 2022 workshop organizers: Sergül Aydöre, Konstantina Palla, Gloria Namanya, Beliz Gunel, Mariam Arab, Kimia Nadjahi. Website 2023 un-workshop organizers: Giulia Luise, Priyadarshini Kumari, Stephanie Milani, Tiffany Ding, Arianna Bunnell. Website 2023 workshop orgnizers: Natasa Tagasovska, Kelly Buchanan, Megha Srivastava, Jess Sorrell, Hewitt Tusiime, Eda Okur, Shweta Khushu. Website 2024 symposium organizers: Elizabeth Healey, Maryleen Amaizu, Laya Rafiee Sevyeri, Irene Ballester Campos. Website 2024 workshop organizers: Tiffany Vlaar, Ibtihel Amara, Mehrnaz Mofakhami, Bo Zhao, Milica Cvetkovic, Nikita Saxena, Yolanne Yi Ran Lee, Mahsa Massoud. Website

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All events WiML Virtual Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020 Virtual December 9, 2020 9:40 am - 2:30 pm The 15th annual Women in Machine Learning workshop will be virtually co-located with NeurIPS 2020 in December 2020. See the workshop website for details! The organizers are: Erin Grant, Xinyi Chen, Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan, Judy Hanwen Shen, Xenia Miscouridou, Raquel Aoki, Belen Saldias, Mel Woghiren, Elizabeth Wood. Previous Next

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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.

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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