NeurIPS2019 Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
Organizers: Raymond Chua, Feryal Behbahani, Sara Zannone, Rui Ponte Costa, Claudia Clopath, Blake Richards, Doina Precup
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 3 Men (63%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24-25%
*Method of estimation: Established base rate from the inaugural conference on reinforcement learning and decision making (RLDM) in 2013
7th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Artificial and Biological Cognition
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 15 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
Summer School in Computational and Theoretical Models in Neuroscience (ConTaMiNEURO 2019)
Organizers: Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan, Maurizio Corbetta, Marco Formentin, Stefano Vassanelli, Achille Giacometti and Miguel A. Munoz
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 16 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Megan R. Carey and Javier F. Medina
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 14 Women : 17 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Cerebellum and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 20 pages of results using our python script.
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2019
Program Chairs: Eugenia Chiappe and Christian Machens
Sponsors: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Google, Simons Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (43%)
Total speaker gender ratio (incl. invited): 12 Women : 32 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in computational neuroscience previously established through attendance at COSYNE conferences
Organizers: Farzad Farkhooi, Rainer Engelken, Jonathan Kadmon, Viola Priesemann
Sponsors: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen, Max Planck Society and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
Organizers: Florian Berger, Claudia Jou, Christoph Kirst and Silvana Valtcheva
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 1 man (75%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurobiology, narrowing down to only Eastern US states and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 31 pages using our python script.
