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.
Predictive Processing Symposium: From Concept to Circuits
Conference date: 10/30/2020
Organizer: Helmut Leder (Head of the Vienna CogSciHub)
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Neurotechnology NIN Summer School
Conference date: 06/24/2021
Sponsors: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 9 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 31%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neurotechnology”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 4 pages of results using our python script. We left 4 names unclassified.
Brain Criticality Virtual Meeting
Organizers: Dietmar Plenz, Lucilla de Arcangelis, Dante Chialvo & Demian Battaglia
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women: 14 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “systems neuroscience”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 5 pages of results using our python script.
Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging Summer School 2020
Organizers: Research Group Neuroinformatics (University of Vienna) & Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
Faculty gender ratio: 0 Women: 7 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 19%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “pattern recognition” AND neuroimaging, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Robot-Aided Neuromechanics: Using Robots to Study Sensorimotor Function and Impairment
Organizers: Fabrizio Sergi, Laura Marchal-Crespo, Hyunglae Lee & Etienne Burdet
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women: 13 Men (19%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuromechanics AND sensorimotor, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
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.
Director: Daniel Geschwind
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 36%*
BWN rating: 3, at or within 1 stdev of the base rate
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurogenetics, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 7 pages of results using our python script. We left 5 names unclassified.
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop: Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 6 Men (33%)
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.
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies Advanced Course: Microbiota and the Brain (NSAS 2020)
Director: John Cryan
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords microbiota AND brain, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 25 pages of results using our python script.
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