WiMLDS NYC: May 2021 Newsletter
Special Announcements
👋 The NYC Chapter of WiMLDS is reopening with a virtual kickoff event in June (see details below)!
Our new volunteer co-organizers are:
- Melissa Barr: ML Technical Writer, Uber
- Ellie Norris: IT Innovation Chapter Lead, Merck
We thank our former organizers for making this chapter the second largest among ~100 worldwide chapters!
In addition, we are seeking one or more volunteers to assist us with virtual event administration through 2021 beginning with next month’s event. Please reach out to us at nyc@wimlds.org if you are interested.
New Event
👩💻 “Careers in AI” hosted by WiMLDS x Dataminr
Event: Thursday, June 10th, 5–7pm EDT
- 5–6pm: Panel
- 6–6:30pm: Smaller Rooms Hosted by Panelists
- 6:30–7pm: Informal 1:1 Networking
Description: Join us for a fun and exciting two-hour event hosted by WiMLDS in partnership with Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI businesses. Dataminr is one of New York’s top private technology companies fueled by employees who have a passion to collaborate and make a difference. Check out career opportunities with Dataminr here: https://www.dataminr.com/careers
During this event, you will hear about Careers in AI from five women at Dataminr, and three women from additional companies. You will also have the opportunity to ask direct questions to the panelists in smaller breakout rooms during this meetup. Take a look at each of the panelist’s LinkedIn profiles to learn more about them before the event.
Location: Zoom
Panelists:
- Sarah Manning: Director of Engineering, Dataminr
- Alison Renner: Sr. Research Scientist, Dataminr
- Isabel Zhang: Sr. Research Scientist, Dataminr
- Shengli Hu: Research Scientist, Dataminr
- Rui Bai: Data Scientist, Dataminr
- Somaieh Nikpoor: AI/ML Research Advisor, Government of Canada — Research & Innovation Unit
- Serena McDonnell: Senior Data Scientist, Delphia
- Nour Fahmy: Data Scientist, #paid
Conferences
- Deep Learning World: May 24–28, 2021
- Re-Work MLOps Summit: June 2, 2021
- MLOps World: Machine Learning in Production Conference: June 14–17, 2021
- Re-Work Women in AI Virtual: June 15, 2021
- The Federated & Distributed Machine Learning Conference: June 16–17, 2021
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): June 19–25, 2021
- Data & Analytics Live: US: June 22–24, 2021
- Conference on Learning Theory (COLT): July 7–10, 2021
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO): July 10–14, 2021
- Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR): July 11–15, 2021
- Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) July 14–18, 2021
