Meetup @ NeurIPS 2021
December 3-14, Virtual
NeurIPS 2021, curated by MD4SG #
Welcome to NeurIPS 2021, MD4SG-style. The schedule for this conference is quite large, so we’ve curated a list of programming relevant to the MD4SG community, whether for its speaker/organizer/author or topic. Note that all times are in Pacific Standard Time (PST) as is the timezone used by the NeurIPS conference. (Convert to your timezone.)
This MD4SG meetup at NeurIPS 2021 is organized by Jessie Finocchiaro, Corinna Hertweck, and Lily Xu from the MD4SG Community Engagement team.
Many of the events and talks below require a NeurIPS registration to access. All participants have read the NeurIPS 2021 Code of Conduct and agree to abide by it.
MD4SG @ NeurIPS Socials #
We will have two organized MD4SG socials. These socials are open to all and do not require a NeurIPS registration.
These will take place on the MD4SG Discord on the #neurips2021 channel. The Discord channel will be open throughout the conference — we encourage you all to visit and discuss throughout the conference.
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 13 12:00 PST (convert to your timezone) | MD4SG @ NeurIPS Social | MD4SG Discord |
| December 14 00:00 PST (convert to your timezone) | MD4SG @ NeurIPS Social | MD4SG Discord |
Tutorials #
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| December 6 13:00 – 17:30 PST | Beyond Fairness in Machine Learning | Timnit Gebru, Emily Denton |
| December 6 05:00 – 07:20 PST | A Journey Through the Opportunity of Low Resourced Natural Language Processing — An African Lens | Vukosi Marivate, David Adelani |
Invited Talks #
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| December 7 15:00–16:30 PST | The Banality of Scale: A Theory on the Limits of Modeling Bias and Fairness Frameworks for Social Justice (and other lessons from the Pandemic) | Mary Gray |
| December 9 07:00–08:30 PST | A Conversation on Human and Machine Intelligence | Daniel Kahneman |
| December 9 10:00–11:00 PST | How Copyright Shapes Your Datasets and What To Do About It | Amanda Levendowski |
| December 9 15:00–16:30 PST | Gender, Allyship & Public Interest Technology | Meredith Broussard |
Socials #
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| December 7 18:00 – 19:00 PST | Latinx in AI Social | Andres Munoz, Maria Luisa Santiago |
| December 9 05:00 – 07:00 PST | Queer in AI | Claas Voelcker |
| December 9 11:00 – 12:00 PST | Women in AI Ignite | Anoush Najarian |
| December 10 11:00 – 12:00 PST | Un-bookclub Algorithms of Oppression | Anoush Najarian, Sindhuja Parimalarangan |
Workshops #
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| December 13 05:00 – 12:10 PST | Machine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON) | David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou |
| December 13 06:00 – 17:30 PST | Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of causality and robustness | Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike |
| December 13 07:00 – 4:45 PST | Human Centered AI | Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller |
| December 13 09:00 – 10:00 PST | AI for Humatarian Assistance and Disaster Response | Ritwik Gupta, Esther Rolf, Robin Murphy, Eric Heim |
| December 13 09:00 – 14:50 PST | Learning in the Presence of Strategic Behavior | Omer Ben-Porat, Nika Haghtalab, Annie Liang, Yishay Mansour, David Parkes |
| December 14 | Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning | Maria João Sousa, Hari Prasanna Das, Simone Fobi, Ján Drgoňa, Tegan Maharaj, Yoshua Bengio |
| December 14 | Machine Learning in Public Health | Rumi Chunara, Daniel Lizotte, Laura Rosella, Esra Suel, Marie Charpignon |
| December 14 05:00 – 15:00 PST | Bridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice | |
| December 14 05:00 – 14:10 PST | Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning? | Manfred Díaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine |
| December 14 05:00 – 13:45 PST | Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning Systems | Thomas Gilbert, Stuart J Russell, Tom O Zick, Aaron J Snoswell, Michael Dennis |
| December 14 05:00 – 17:00 PST | Learning Meaningful Representations of Life | Elizabeth Wood, Adji Bousso Dieng, Aleksandrina Goeva, Anshul Kundaje, Barbara Engelhardt, Chang Liu, David Van Valen, Debora Marks, Edward Boyden, Eli N Weinstein, Lorin Crawford, Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang |
| December 14 05:20 – 14:15 PST | Cooperative AI | Natasha Jaques, Edward Hughes, Jakob Foerster, Noam Brown, Kalesha Bullard, Charlotte Smith |
| December 14 06:00 – 14:00 PST | Machine Learning for Development World (ML4D): Global Challenges | Paula Rodriguez Diaz, Konstantin Klemmer, Sally Simone Fobi, Oluwafemi Azeez, Niveditha Kalavakonda, Aya Salama, Tejumade Afonja |
| December 14 06:05 – 15:30 PST | Workshop on Human and Machine Decisions | Daniel Reichman, Joshua Peterson, Kiran Tomlinson, Annie Liang, Tom Griffiths |
Affinity Workshops #
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Queer in AI Workshop | Claas Voelcker, Arjun Subramonian, Vishakha Agrawal, Luca Soldaini, Pan Xu, Pranav A, William Agnew, Juan Pajaro Velasquez, Yanan Long, Ashwin S, Mary Anne Smart, Patrick Feeney, Ruchira Ray | |
| December 7 08:00 – 20:00 PST | LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 1 | Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte |
| December 8 11:00 – 14:30 PST | Indigenous in AI Workshop | Mason Grimshaw, Michael Running Wolf, Patrick Feeney |
Papers #
Papers co-authored by members of the MD4SG community.