Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2024!

⏰ Upcoming dates

Visa-friendly workshop submissions due:

Fri, August 30 (Anywhere on Earth) - submit here.

All workshop submissions due:

Tue, September 10 (Anywhere on Earth) - submit here.

NeurIPS 2024 (specific QAI event dates TBD):

Sun, December 8 - Sun, December 15 in Vancouver, Canada

🌈 Mission

Queer in AI’s workshop and socials at NeurIPS 2024 aim to act as a gathering space for queer folks to build community and solidarity while enabling participants to learn about key issues and topics at the intersection of AI and queerness.

‼️ Submit your work to our NeurIPS 2024 workshop ‼️

Visa-friendly workshop submissions due: Fri, August 30 (Anywhere on Earth)

All workshop submissions due: Tue, September 10 (Anywhere on Earth)

Submit your work to our workshop via OpenReview here.

  • Submission topics

    We encourage submissions about the intersection of AI and queerness, as well as research conducted by queer individuals.

    Submission formats

    We welcome submissions of various formats, including but not limited to research papers, extended abstracts, position papers, opinion pieces, surveys, and artistic expressions.

    Submission perks

    Authors of accepted works will be invited to present their work at the Queer in AI workshop at the NeurIPS 2024 conference. We usually aim to provide complimentary registrations, though we are unable to confirm whether we can provide those this year until we have more in-depth discussions with NeurIPS. Stay tuned for more details / confirmation of what we can or cannot provide this year.

  • If you will need a visa to present in-person at NeurIPS 2024 (being held in Vancouver, Canada), please aim to submit by our visa-friendly submission deadline of Friday, August 30 (Anywhere on Earth).

    Unfortunately, the process of obtaining a visa can be long and arduous, so Queer in AI appreciates having as much heads up as possible so we can try our best to ensure any presenters who need a visa have the time + resources + support to obtain one. For more questions about this, feel free to reach out to us via email (check our contact page for more details).

  • Submit your work to our workshop via OpenReview here.

    For folks who submit by our visa-friendly deadline (Fri, August 30) and require visas to present in-person, notifications of acceptance or denial will be sent out by Sat, September 7 (Anywhere on Earth).

    For folks who submit by our final deadline (Tue, September 10), notifications of acceptance or denial will be sent out by Thu, Oct 10 (Anywhere on Earth).

Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2024: Organizers

  • Jaidev Shriram (he/him) jkariyatt@ucsd.edu: Jaidev is a second-year MS student in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests lie in the intersection of computer vision and HCI, focusing on interdisciplinary problems. Specifically, he explores the application of modern generative 2D/3D techniques to develop novel user experiences. He has previously helped organize the Queer in AI workshop at NeurIPS 2022 and 2023.

  • Sarthak Arora (he/him) sarthakvarora@gmail.com: Sarthak is a Statistics graduate from Ramjas College, University of Delhi. His interests lie primarily at the intersection of Data Science and its application in otherwise little explored avenues of Ethics, Environment, Politics and Art in creating intuitive and impactful models of Automation. Currently he is conducting research on Fire risk Assessment using AI/ML at UC Berkeley, and working on the Climate SDG Project at the AI for Good Foundation.

  • Megan Richards (she/her) meganrichards.research@gmail.com: Megan is a Computer Science PhD student at New York University Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Her work focuses on reliable machine learning, with the goal of making models more consistent, representative, and fair.  

  • Arjun Subramonian (they/them) arjunsub@cs.ucla.edu: Arjun is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. They research inclusive and critical approaches to graph learning and natural language processing, including fairness, justice, and ethics. They have been a Queer in AI core organizer for four years, organizing workshops and socials at various ML conferences.

  • Sharvani Jha (she/her) sharvanijha@ucla.edu Sharvani is a software engineer at Microsoft. She got her B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA in 2021. She enjoys queer community building, from founding a queer collegiate hackathon to organizing socials + workshops for Queer in AI.

  • Iheb Belgacem (he/him): Iheb is a Research Engineer at Sony. He earned his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Munich and CentraleSupélec. His research focuses on diffusion models and 3D human modeling.

  • Michelle Lin (she/her): Michelle is a Research Assistant and Masters student at the University of Montreal and Mila - Quebec AI Institute. Her research uses deep learning, remote sensing, and computer vision for climate change mitigation applications. At Queer in AI, she helps organize workshops and events.

  • Yanan Long (he/they): Yanan is a research data scientist at the University of Chicago. His research spans applied Bayesian statistics, geometric deep learning, natural language processing and AI ethics, with a thematic focus on biomedicine and healthcare. At Queer in AI, he has been a core organizer for a year and contributes to organizing workshops at multiple ML/AI workshops.