OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC2017)
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Bernd Kuhn and Jeff Wickens
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 12 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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.
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