Call for Participation

The 21st Workshop for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) will be co-located with NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney, Australia.

The NeurIPS 2026 WiML workshop will be held in person with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together members of the academic and industry research landscape for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas, and learn from each other. There will be a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in machine learning. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in pursuing machine learning research are encouraged to participate. All presenters should be women or non-binary, and all genders are invited to attend. 

All submissions must abide by the WiML Code of Conduct.
Submission Page: https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/WiML

IMPORTANT DATES

●      July 27th 2026 – Submissions Open on OpenReview.

●      August 17th, 2026 – Submission Deadline (11:59 pm AoE)

●      September 11th, 2026 – Notification of Acceptance

●    September 16th, 2026 – Travel Funding Application Deadline (11:59 pm AoE)

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

We strongly encourage students, postdocs, and researchers in all areas of machine learning who are women or non-binary to submit an abstract (1-page PDF) describing new, previously published (within the last year), or concurrently published research. While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we request that the presenting author be a woman or non-binary.

• • Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/WiML

  • Topics:  Machine learning research in theory, methodology, as well as applications (similar to NeurIPS topics, seehttps://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForPapers).

  • Length: Maximum one page PDF.

  • Acceptance Criteria & Examples: Instructions to be announced soon.

  • Eligibility:

    • Presenting Author: Must be women or non-binary

    • Attendees and other Authors: All genders are welcome

  • Deadline: August 17th, 2026

Submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind setting. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work in either a virtual or in-person poster session. A few authors will be selected to give oral presentations. There are no formal proceedings. Abstracts are non-archival: they may describe completed research or work-in-progress.

TRAVEL FUNDING

Registration for the NeurIPS conference is required to participate in this year's WiML workshop. To support the increasingly globalized WiML community, WiML is glad to extend travel funding support beyond the main NeurIPS conference in San Diego to the 2nd physical location of NeurIPS in Mexico City and the EurIPS meeting in Copenhagen. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked about the location where you can present your poster.

Travel funding will be available for eligible WiML participants, to help cover transportation, meals, accommodation, poster printing and/or visa application related costs. The funding amounts will depend on the geographic location of the qualified recipients and their types of needs. Travel funding recipients are required to volunteer during the WiML Workshop. 

Volunteer Application Form to be announced soon!

To qualify, the participant must: i) be a woman or non-binary, and ii) be a student, postdoc, or hold an equivalent position (equivalent positions include unemployed recent grads and early career researchers from underrepresented geographical areas). WiML travel funding is administered as reimbursements after the workshop and no funding is allocated before the workshop. 

If you are attending NeurIPS, we also encourage you to apply for NeurIPS’ volunteering and travel funding opportunities, which are separate and independent of WiML travel funding. More details can be found on the NeurIPS website.

Note: More information on funding opportunities can be found in our FAQ section of our webpage.

Visa Invitation Letter: Information on visa invitation letter requests can be found in our FAQ section of our webpage.

REVIEWERS

We welcome anyone interested to apply to be a reviewer. The role of reviewers is to provide constructive feedback to all assigned submissions and rate each abstract in terms of relevance, clarity, novelty, significance, and technical quality. 

Reviewer Application Form: To be announced soon!
Deadline for the Reviewer application:  To be announced soon!
Notification of Reviewer acceptance: To be announced soon!

ORGANIZERS

• Ziqi Huang (Nanyang Technological University)

• Lucy He (Princeton University)

• Svetlana Churina (National University of Singapore)

• Santhoshi Ravichandran  (TD Bank, Mila)

• Supatta Viriyavisuthisakul (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

• Aiman Farooq (IIT Jodhpur;Microsoft Research India)

• Rana Barghout (University of Toronto)

• Daphne Charles (Salesforce)

• Mélisande Teng (University of Copenhagen)

• Ariana Villegas (Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia)

ADVISORY (WiML Board of Directors)

• Giulia Clerici (University of Milan)

• Nikita Saxena (Google Deepmind)

Long-term Super Volunteers 

• Yuko Kuroki Miyauchi  (Intesa Sanpaolo AI Research / UMass Boston)

• Nikita Malik (IIT Delhi India)

• Swati Sharma (Google)

• Alanis Gonzalez (Entel Perú)

• Radhika Dua (NYU)

• Khongorzul Munkhbat (Deep Tech LLC)

• Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Walmart Labs)

Questions? Check out the FAQs or reach us at workshop [at] wimlworkshop [dot] org