Workshop: Women in Machine Learning
Xinyi Chen, Erin Grant, Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan, Xenia Miscouridou, Judy Hanwen Shen, Raquel Aoki, Belén Saldías, Mel Woghiren, Elizabeth Wood
Wed, Dec 9th @ 09:40 GMT – Thu, Dec 10th @ 02:00 GMT
Abstract: The Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop started in 2006 as a way of creating connections within the small community of women working in machine learning in order to encourage mentorship, networking, and interchange of ideas. The workshop has attracted representatives from both academia and industry, whose talks showcase some of the cutting edge research being done by women. In addition to technical presentations and discussion, the workshop aims to incite debate on prospective research avenues and career choices for machine learning professionals. More information about WiML’s history and past events can be found at www.wimlworkshop.org. WiML workshop is overseen by the WiML Board of Directors, who select and support the organizing committee for each year’s workshop.
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To help navigate the virtual WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020, we have compiled a list of important links and guidelines below:
1. All activities, such as the talks, mentorship roundtables, sponsor expo, and social events, will take place in the Gather.Town WiML world (https://neurips.gather.town/app/DbxKEp9W7yaLyK9F/wimlworkshop-neurips2020). Please fill out the participation form and accept the WiML Code of Conduct to access the Gather.Town: https://forms.gle/gEiRaZ6VnFXattv57
2. The joint affinity groups poster session will be hosted in a separate Gather.Town link (https://neurips.gather.town/app/2Ae1gXCZb4bI4MW2/affinity-groups-neurips20). *Please note that the poster session will take place on Monday, December 7th at 8:30-10:30p UTC / 3:30-5:30p EST / 12:30-2:30p PST.*
3. Asking questions in live Q&A: To ask the speaker a question, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link at the top of this page; or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
4. Please refer to the WiML workshop program book for details on all the program activities: https://bit.ly/3mOgpXE
5. The Gather.Town guidelines contains information about how to make full use of your experience at Gather.Town as well as troubleshooting common technical issues: https://bit.ly/2Igp45Z
6. Finally, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the virtual workshop experience. Please fill out the exit survey at the end of the workshop and enter for a chance to win a $$25 gift card: bit.ly/3m3v0ht
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To help navigate the virtual WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020, we have compiled a list of important links and guidelines below:
1. All activities, such as the talks, mentorship roundtables, sponsor expo, and social events, will take place in the Gather.Town WiML world (https://neurips.gather.town/app/DbxKEp9W7yaLyK9F/wimlworkshop-neurips2020). Please fill out the participation form and accept the WiML Code of Conduct to access the Gather.Town: https://forms.gle/gEiRaZ6VnFXattv57
2. The joint affinity groups poster session will be hosted in a separate Gather.Town link (https://neurips.gather.town/app/2Ae1gXCZb4bI4MW2/affinity-groups-neurips20). *Please note that the poster session will take place on Monday, December 7th at 8:30-10:30p UTC / 3:30-5:30p EST / 12:30-2:30p PST.*
3. Asking questions in live Q&A: To ask the speaker a question, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link at the top of this page; or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
4. Please refer to the WiML workshop program book for details on all the program activities: https://bit.ly/3mOgpXE
5. The Gather.Town guidelines contains information about how to make full use of your experience at Gather.Town as well as troubleshooting common technical issues: https://bit.ly/2Igp45Z
6. Finally, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the virtual workshop experience. Please fill out the exit survey at the end of the workshop and enter for a chance to win a $$25 gift card: bit.ly/3m3v0ht
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Schedule
20:30 – 22:30 GMT
Joint affinity groups poster session
Welcome to the NeurIPS 2020 joint affinity groups poster session! We have 190 posters this year from Black in AI, Indigenous in AI, LatinX in AI, Queer in AI, and Women in Machine Learning. This poster session is open to all NeurIPS attendees, so tell your friends! Please see the program book for more information: https://bit.ly/3mOgpXE Click the "Link" below to join on the Gather.Town. Note that the Gather.Town link for this joint poster session is different from the 2 poster sessions specific to the WiML Workshop.
09:30 – 09:40 GMT
[Important Link] Gather.Town for WiML World
Gather.Town link for joining the WiML world, where all activities -- including talks, mentorship roundtables, sponsor expo, and social events -- take place. Please note that NeurIPS registration and signing of WiML Code of Conduct is required for access: https://forms.gle/RB6AWrQxaRvcqxXu7
Wed, Dec 9th @ 09:30 GMT – Invalid date
[Important Link] Asking questions during live Q&A
To ask the speaker a question during each of the 4 live Q&A sessions, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link at the top of this page; or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
Wed, Dec 9th @ 09:30 GMT – Invalid date
[Important Link] Exit survey
Thank you for attending the WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020! We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback about the event, which helps us to improve your experience for subsequent workshops. Please fill out the exit survey and enter for a chance to win a $25 gift card!
Wed, Dec 9th @ 09:30 GMT – Invalid date
[Important Link] Gather.Town guidelines
The Gather.Town guidelines contains information about how to make full use of your experience at Gather.Town as well as troubleshooting common technical issues.
09:30 – 09:40 GMT
[Important Link] WiML program book
The WiML workshop program book contains details on all the program activities.
09:40 – 10:40 GMT
Informal pre-workshop social
Participant-hosted socials will take place during this time in the Gather.Town WiML World. We highly encourage WiML participants to attend and meet fellow participants in a fun and casual setting. See this list for a description of each social: https://tinyurl.com/y2n4zbdh
10:50 – 11:00 GMT
Remarks from the WiML 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Chairs
Danielle Belgrave, Meire Fortunato
11:00 – 11:02 GMT
Introduction to invited speaker, Mihaela van der Schaar
Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan
11:02 – 11:32 GMT
Interpretable AutoML: Powering the machine learning revolution in healthcare in the era of Covid-19 and beyond
Mihaela van der Schaar
11:32 – 11:40 GMT
Q&A for invited speaker, Mihaela van der Schaar
Mihaela van der Schaar
To ask the speaker a question during the live Q&A, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link below (also found at the top of the page); or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
12:00 – 13:00 GMT
Poster session #1
During this poster session, the following posters (https://tinyurl.com/y2fst428) will be presented in the WiML World Gather.Town. NeurIPS attendees are welcome to attend; please note that signing of the WiML Code of Conduct is required for access: https://forms.gle/RB6AWrQxaRvcqxXu7
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
Learning generalized visual representations at Facebook
Deepti Ghadiyaram, Sophia Yan
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
QuantumBlack: Revolutionizing advanced industries using machine learning
Diana Murgulet
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
Sponsor expo
WiML sponsor representatives will be at their booths in the Gather.Town WiML World. Sponsor talks listed on this page can also be played on-demand in Gather.Town. Please see the following document (https://tinyurl.com/y3aenjyz) for a list of all the staffed times. NeurIPS attendees are welcome to join; please note that signing of the WiML Code of Conduct is required for access: https://forms.gle/RB6AWrQxaRvcqxXu7
13:00 – 14:00 GMT
Informal sponsor expo socials
Participant-hosted socials will take place during this time in the Gather.Town WiML World. We highly encourage WiML participants to attend and meet fellow participants in a fun and casual setting. See this list for a description of each social: https://tinyurl.com/y2n4zbdh
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
Research at NVIDIA: New Core AI and Machine Learning Lab
Anima Anandkumar
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
Women at DeepMind: Applying for technical roles
Feryal Behbahani, Mihaela Rosca, Kate Parkyn
13:00 – 19:00 GMT
Spotlight on women at IBM Research
Lisa Amini, Francesca Rossi, Celia Cintas, Payel Das
19:00 – 19:02 GMT
Introduction to invited speaker, Fernanda Viégas
Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan
19:32 – 19:40 GMT
Q&A for invited speaker, Fernanda Viégas
Fernanda Viegas
To ask the speaker a question during the live Q&A, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link below (also found at the top of the page); or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
19:50 – 20:00 GMT
Why language models can help with downstream tasks: A mathematical approach
Sadhika Malladi
20:30 – 22:00 GMT
Mentorship roundtables session
Over 60 mentorship roundtables on research, career & life advice, and sponsors take place in WiML Gather.Town. Please see this document for a list of all topics and mentors (https://tinyurl.com/y3xkclo8). NeurIPS attendees are welcome to join us in the WiML Gather.Town; signing of the WiML Code of Conduct is required for access: https://forms.gle/RB6AWrQxaRvcqxXu7
22:00 – 22:02 GMT
Introduction to invited speaker, Rediet Abebe
Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan
22:32 – 22:40 GMT
Q&A for invited speaker, Rediet Abebe
Rediet Abebe
To ask the speaker a question during the live Q&A, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link below (also found at the top of the page); or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
Wed, Dec 9th @ 23:00 GMT – Thu, Dec 10th @ 00:00 GMT
Poster session #2
During this poster session, the following posters (https://tinyurl.com/y2fst428) will be presented in the WiML World Gather.Town. NeurIPS attendees are welcome to attend; please note that signing of the WiML Code of Conduct is required for access: https://forms.gle/RB6AWrQxaRvcqxXu7
00:00 – 00:02 GMT
Introduction to invited speaker, Anca Dragan
Kristy Choi, Krystal Maughan
00:02 – 00:32 GMT
Getting human-robot interaction strategies to emerge from first principles
Anca Dragan
00:32 – 00:40 GMT
Q&A for invited speaker, Anca Dragan
Anca Dragan
To ask the speaker a question during the live Q&A, you may: (a) join Zoom by clicking the link below (also found at the top of the page); or (b) type your question directly into the Rocket.Chat at the top of this page. The moderator will monitor the chat to convey selected questions to the speaker.
01:00 – 02:00 GMT
Informal post-workshop social
Participant-hosted socials will take place during this time in the Gather.Town WiML World. We highly encourage WiML participants to attend and meet fellow participants in a fun and casual setting. See this list for a description of each social: https://tinyurl.com/y2n4zbdh