Adaptive and Scalable Nonparametric Methods in Machine Learning at NIPS 2016
Organizers: Aaditya Ramdas, Arthur Gretton, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur, Han Liu, John Lafferty, Samory Kpotufe and Zoltán Szabó
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Deep Learning Workshop @ ICML’16
Organizers: Antoine Bordes, Kyunghyun Cho, Emily Denton, Rob Fergus and Nando de Freitas
Sponsor: Google DeepMind
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Cognitive Computation: Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches at NIPS 2016
Organizers: Tarek R. Besold, Antoine Bordes, Artur d’Avila Garcez and Greg Wayne
Sponsor: Google DeepMind and Illuminoo BV
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Panelist gender ratio: 0 Women : 5 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
First International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL-2017)
Organizers: Sadaoki Furui, Tomoko Matsui, David McAllester, Yutaka Sasaki, Koichi Shinoda, Masashi Sugiyama and Jun’ichi Tsujii
Sponsors: Toyota Technological Institute and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems at NIPS 2016
Organizers: Thore Graepel, Marc Lanctot, Joel Z. Leibo, Guy Lever, Janusz Marecki, Frans Oliehoek and Karl Tuyls
Sponsor: DeepMind
Speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 6 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Organizer: Nikola Simidjievski
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
5th Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE 2017)
Sponsor: Semiconductor Research Corporation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 13 Men (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Data Science Approaches for Neuroscientists
Speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Vision: A Platform for Linking Circuits, Behavior & Perception
Organizers: Farran Briggs, Andrew Huberman and Onkar Dhande
Sponsors: Helmsley Charitable Trust and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 15 Men (32%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “visual AND neuro” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 5, 10, 15 and 20 of 25 results pages.
6th International Conference on Transcranial Brain Stimulation 2016
Organizer: Walter Paulus
Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 55 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “transcranial AND stimulation” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 7 and 10 of 11 results pages.
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