Montreal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN 2020)
Organizers: Pierre Bellec, Andrea Green, Karim Jerbi, Guillaume Lajoie, Jean-Marc Lina, Bratislav Misic, Irina Rish & Pascal Vincent
Invited speaker gender ratio: 14 Women: 15 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neurally-inspired machine learning.
Conference date: 10/26/20
Organizers: Dan Goodman, Konrad Kording, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Tim Vogels, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi & Megan Peters
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women: 9 Men (59%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Simons-Emory Workshop on Neural Dynamics
Conference date: 12/04/20
Organizer: Chethan Pandarinath
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
NeurIPS2020: Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning
Organizers: Raymond Chua, Feryal Behbahani, Sara Zannone, Rui Ponte Costa, Ida Momennejad, Blake Richards & Doina Precup
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 3 Men (63%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 24-25%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in reinforcement learning.
Uncovering Mechanisms of Olfactory Sensing and Olfactory-Driven Behaviors (Part 1 / Part 2)
Organizer: Cheng Ly
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 3 Men (63%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords (olfactory AND neural system) AND (computational modeling OR electrophysiology), and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD 2020)
Organizers: Giovanni Giuffrida & Panos Pardalos (Program Chairs)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 6 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys 2020)
Organizers: Raia Hadsell, Blake Richards & Anthony Zador
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women: 12 Men (37%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne 2020)
Organizers: Anne-Marie Oswald and Srdjan Ostojic (Program Chairs)
Sponsors: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, DeepMind, Simons Foundation
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 7 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne 2019)
Organizers: Eugenia Chiappe and Christian Machens (Program Chairs)
Sponsors: The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Google, Simons Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 8 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Neuromatch 2.0 An unconference in Computational Neuroscience
Organizers: Dan Goodman, Konrad Kording, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Tim Vogels, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi, Grace Lindsay
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women: 6 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
