The 17th Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) will be co-located with NeurIPS in New Orleans, Louisiana and will be hybrid.

The NeurIPS workshop for Women in Machine Learning will be held in person on Monday November the 28th and virtually (TBD) 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. All presenters should be women or non-binary, and all genders are invited to attend.

All submissions must abide by the WiML Code of Conduct found here
https://sites.google.com/view/wiml2022/code-of-conduct

Submission page: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WiML2022

IMPORTANT DATES
● August 1st, 2022 11:59pm PT – Abstract Submission Open on CMT
● September 1st, 2022 11:59pm PT – Abstract Submission Deadline
● September 15th, 2022 11:59pm PT – Notification of Acceptance
● September 15th, 2022 11:59pm PT – Notification of Travel Funding
● November 21st, 2022 11:59pm PT – Registration Deadline for NeurIPS
● November 28th, 2022 – WiML Workshop Day

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We strongly encourage students, postdocs, and researchers in all areas of machine learning who are women or non-binary 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. While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we request that the presenting author should be woman or non-binary.
Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind setting. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work in either a virtual or in-person poster session. A few authors will be selected to give oral presentations. There are no formal proceedings. Abstracts are non-archival: they may describe completed research or work-in-progress.
Please refer to the detailed Submission Instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15NCH0mJtOxDwHBHw-F_HdhI334hLXLaB/view

TRAVEL FUNDING
Registration to the NeurIPS conference is required to participate in this year's WiML workshop. Registration fee funding for NeurIPS will be available for eligible WiML participants. To qualify, the participant must be a student, postdoc, or equivalent position (equivalent positions include gounemployed recent grads and early career researchers from underrepresented regions or groups), and should be woman or non-binary. Funding recipients must participate in the WiML Workshop as a poster presenter as outlined in the application. 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. More details can be found on the NeurIPS website https://nips.cc/

The application for travel funding will be sent out to authors on September 1, 2022 and the application deadline is September 8, 2022.

Questions? Check out the FAQs or reach us at workshop[at]wimlworkshop[dot]org


ORGANIZERS
Sergul Aydore (Amazon AI)
Gloria Namanya (Makerere AI Research)
Weiwei Zong (WeCare.WeTeach)
Mariam Arab (Microsoft and Simon Fraser University)
Beliz Gunel (Google AI)
Paige Bailey (Google)
Kimia Nadjahi (MIT)
Konstantina Palla (Spotify Research)