< Back WiML-CWS Social @ AISTATS 2022 Virtual Women in Machine Learning (WiML) and the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) are excited to announce a 1-hour social event at AISTATS 2022 on Tuesday, 29 March, starting at 6 PM UTC. Previous Next

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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

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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 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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WiML is committed to advancing the careers of women and non-binary people studying and working in machine learning. MAILING LIST Please use our mailing list to post job postings, announcements, calls for participation, etc. DIRECTORY & PROFILES OF WOMEN IN MACHINE LEARNING Please use our directory of women working in machine learning to find invited speakers, area chairs, conference committee members, etc. Also check out our profiles on women in machine learning . OTHER CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS Grace Hopper Celebration Women in Data Science Conference Rising Stars EECS Workshop CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop NextProf workshop CODE OF CONDUCT & CONFERENCE GUIDELINES NAACL Conference Anti-Harassment Policy SIGPLAN Conference Code of Conduct Policy CRA-W guidelines for running an inclusive conference LOCAL MEETUPS WiML does not organize local meetups. However, WiMLDS, another organization does! Check them out at their website or Twitter . FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Google Travel and Conference Grants L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Fellowship GENDER BIAS Avoiding gender bias in reference writing Gender bias calculator CONFERENCE TIPS “Nine things I wish I had known the first time I came to NIPS ” by Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, WiML co-founder AWARD OPPORTUNITIES CRA-W awards ACM Athena Lecturer award OTHER DIVERSITY GROUPS Women in Computer Vision Widening NLP Black in AI LatinX in AI Queer in AI

All events WiML Dinner @ ICML 2018 Stockholm, Sweden July 11, 2018 07:30 pm — 10:30 pm WiML is hosting a dinner at ICML 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, 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 Eva Garcia Martin. The invited speakers are Anima Anandkumar, Doina Precup, and Jennifer Dy. Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 7.30pm-10.30pm Venue: The Garden Restaurant, Stockholmsmässan, 1 Mässvägen, 125 80 Älvsjö, Stockholm Registration: https://wiml-icml2018-dinner.eventbrite.com SPONSORS -Platinum- -Diamomd- Previous Next

< Back Clarissa Guevara Gomez Professor at Tec de Monterrey WiML Mentorship Program 4th WiML Mentorship: Ph.D. Applications and Job Seekers 2024–2025 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. What was your favorite part about serving as a WiML Mentor? “The most beautiful part of this project was getting to know, listen, talk, and feel inspired by her way of inhabiting the world, of tracing pathways, and of continuing to build collective will, thinking, acting, and walking alongside Luciana Benotti." Previous Next