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.
This week’s BWN Friday post is the FoVea Speaker List. From their website, “The FoVea Speaker List, funded by the NSF, is intended to increase the number of women invited to give talks at conferences and other academic events and more generally increase the visibility of female vision scientists. We especially encourage women of all underrepresented groups to add their names to the list.”
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.
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.
Organizer: Fritjof Helmchen (Program Chair)
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women: 8 Men (47%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 4 Men (56%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post is a briefing by Dr. Noni Byrnes, the director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR). She covers severals efforts happening at CSR to mitigate bias, including the implementation of a partially double-blind review process for the Transformative Research Awards.
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.
Organizers: José L. Pons & Diego Torricelli (Program Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 8 Men (27%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 2 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 17%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords robotic AND neurorehabilitation within NINDS (Neurological Disorders and Stroke) agency, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
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.
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