Challenges and Promises of Inferring Emotion from Images and Video (CVPR 2020)
Organizers: Aleix M. Martinez, Sergio Escalera & Qianli Feng
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 1 Man (75%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 30%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords computer vision AND emotions, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Inaugural Simons-Emory Symposium on Motor Control
Organizers: Samuel Sober & Gordon Berman (Directors)
Sponsor: Simons Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword motor control within NINDS (Neurological Disorders and Stroke) agency, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 36 page of results using our python script. We left 24 names unclassified.
4th Lifelong Learning Workshop at ICML 2020
Organizers: Shagun Sodhani, Sarath Chandar, Balaraman Ravindran & Doina Precup
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 3 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Organizers: Hans Ekkehard Plesser & Susanne Kunkel
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 16 Men (27%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2020 (ICMNS 2020)
Organizers: Daniele Avitabile, Tatiana Engel, Tilo Schwalger & Wilhelm Stannat
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 1 Man (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Summer School (CNeuro 2020)
Host: Tsinghua University
Faculty:
Faculty gender ratio (updated): 6 Women: 13 Men (32%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-18%*
BWN rating: 4
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience
Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight (CCNS 2020)
Organizers: Scott Rich, Andreea Diaconescu, John Griffiths & Milad Lankarany
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 9 Men (31%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Expanding Minds – The Allen Institute Conference on Human Brain Evolution
Organizers: Christopher Walsh, Michael Greenberg, David Reich
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 6 Men (54%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword brain AND evolution and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script. We left 23 names unclassified. The base rate is estimated to be 31%.
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science 2020
Organizers: Masamichi Sakagami, Hiroaki Gomi, Takatoshi Hikida
Sponsors: KAKENHI Project on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science, RIKEN AIP, U Tokyo IFI, U Tokyo IRCN
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 19 Women : 7 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging (MLCN 2020)
Organizers: Ahmed Abdulkadir, Cher Bass, Mohamad Habes, Seyed Mostafa Kia, Jane Maryam Rondina, Chantal Tax, Hongzhi Wang
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
