LatinX in AI Research at NeurIPS 2021

The LXAI Workshop at NeurIPS will be hosted virtually on Tuesday Dec 7th, 2021

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NeurIPS is being hosted virtually in response to COVID-19 concerns.

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Call for Participation

The workshop is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together faculty, graduate students, research scientists, and engineers for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas. There will be a panel discussion and a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in artificial intelligence and machine learning. While all presenters will identify primarily as latinx, all are invited to attend.

 

Important Dates

  • September 13th, 2021: [LatinX Mentoring Program] Applications (open)

  • September 13th, 2021: Call for Keynote suggestions

  • September 13th, 2021: Program Committee application

  • October 1st, 2021: Program Committee Application

  • October 7th, 2021: Call for Keynote suggestions

  • October 11th, 2021: [LatinX Mentoring Program] Applications due

  • October 15th, 2021: Abstract Submission (deadline)

  • October 18th, 2021: [LatinX Mentoring Program] Notification of Acceptance

  • October 22nd, 2021: Slides and poster (deadline)

  • October 22nd, 2021: Notification of Submission Acceptance.

  • November 10th, 2021: Research pitch (deadline)

  • November 11th, 2021: Volunteer application (deadline)

  • November 19th, 2021: Registration and Internet Support Grant Application EXTENDED

  • November 19th, 2021: LatinX Registration (deadline)

  • November 20th, 2021: Conference Registration (deadline)

  • November 22th, 2021: Research Pitch (notifications)

  • December 7th, 2021: Workshop Date

  • January 17th, 2022: [LatinX Mentoring Program] end date

 
 

Submission Instructions

We strongly encourage students, post-docs, and researchers who primarily identify as Latinx in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to submit a paper describing new research. We welcome paper submissions in theory, methodology, and applications. We also welcome papers currently under preparation or submitted for review elsewhere, as the purpose of this workshop is to disseminate Latin X in AI work within the broader community.

While the presenting author need not be the first author of the work, we encourage authors to highlight the contribution of Latinx individuals — particularly the presenting author. While the event focuses primarily on researchers who identify as Latinx, everyone is invited to attend. Authors are also encouraged to sign up to review for LXAI, with a sign-up option available upon submission.

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to present their work in a poster session. A few authors will be selected to give 10–15 minute oral spotlight presentations. 

All accepted extended abstracts and paper submissions will be published as workshop proceedings by LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research. Full papers may be invited for full publication as journal articles if not previously published elsewhere.

Submission Requirements

Following the conference, this year we are using OpenReview to manage submissions and the corresponding peer-review process by our program committee. You may upload your submission here.

  1. Length: Submissions may be up to six pages, including all figures and tables. Submissions under 4 pages of content will be considered extended abstracts for reviewing purposes, otherwise will be considered as full papers. In all circumstances, pages 7 and above may only contain references or appendices. Submissions should be uploaded as a single PDF.

  2. Appendix: Your submission may contain an appendix with an unrestricted number of pages. You may use this appendix to include details on your experimental setups, complementary results, additional theorem proofs, etc. Please note that reviewers are not required to read the appendix sections, thus the main content of your submission should remain mostly self-contained.

  3. Style: Submissions must  follow the guidelines provided by the NeurIPS 2021 Style Template. Submissions should state the research problem, motivation, and technical contribution. All submissions must be in English.

  4. Desk rejection: Submissions that do not follow the length or style requirements above shall be automatically rejected without consideration of their merits. 

  5. (Optional) Source code: We encourage authors of accepted submissions to provide a link to their source code. To maintain a double-blind review process, you will be allowed to submit or link your code in the camera-ready stage.

The submission deadline is 23:59 GMT (19:59 EDT), October 15, 2021. Please note that no extensions will be offered for submissions.

 

 

Mentoring Program

LatinX in AI is hosting a new mentoring program alongside our official workshops. The LatinX in AI Mentoring Program requires mentors and mentees to meet once a month, premiering October 16th to the day of the workshop at NeurIPS on December 7th, 2021. On this day, some mentees will be asked to share their experience and the learnings they obtained from the program.

Following the completion of this program, you'll be asked to complete a quick survey about your experience and opportunities for our improvement. Mentors who complete the program and survey are eligible to receive a $25 gift voucher as a token of appreciation on behalf of LatinX in AI.

Please see FAQs page here.

 

 

WORKSHOP SPONSORS

 

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 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 
 
 

ACCEPTED PAPERS

Title Presenting Author Affiliation Presentation Type
Flexible Learning of Sparse Neural Networks via Constrained L0 Regularization Jose Gallego-Posada Université de Montréal Poster
Vehicle Speed Estimation Using Computer Vision And Evolutionary Camera Calibration Hector Mejia Yachay Tech University Poster
Exploring the Limits of Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Low-Shot Settings Matias Valdenegro-Toro German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Poster
Investigating generative neural-network models for building pest insect detectors in sticky trap images for the Peruvian horticulture Joel Jossue Cabrera Rios PUCP Poster
A Pharmacovigilance Application of Social Media Mining: An Ensemble Approach for Automated Classification and Extraction of Drug Mentions in Tweets Luis Alberto Robles Georgia State University Poster
Curating the Twitter Election Integrity Datasets for Better Online Troll Characterization Albert Manuel Orozco McGill University Poster
The Pitfalls of Label Differential Privacy Andres Muñoz Medina Google Research Poster
Performance Analysis of Quantum Machine Learning Classifiers Tonni Jui Baylor University Poster
A novel stochastic model based on echo state networks for hydrological time series forecasting Edson Luque Mamani University of São Paulo Poster
Lifting the veil on hyper-parameters for value-based deep reinforcement learning Joao Guilherme Madeira Araujo University of São Paulo Poster
 

 ORGANIZERS

 

Workshop Chairs

  • Operation and Logistics Chairs — Andres Munoz Medina (Google), Maria Luisa Santiago (Accel.ai)

  • Presentation Chairs — Karla Caballero (SiriusXM/Pandora), Isabel Metzger (Eversana)

  • Mentorship Chairs — Lourdes Ramirez (National University of Trujillo), Rocio Milagros Zorrilla Coz (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica), Rosina O Weber (Drexel University)

  • Program Committee Chairs — Jose Gallego-Posada (University of Montreal), Omar Florez (Twitter Cortex), Juan Banda (Georgia State University)

  • Public Relations & Website Chairs — Walter Mayor-Toro (Universidad Autonoma de Occidente), Gabriela Vega Lopez (UPC)

  • Volunteer Chair — Amanda Duarte (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

 

Program Committee

  • Amanda Duarte

  • Andres Munoz medina

  • Byung Hoon Ahn

  • Deisy Chaves

  • Dennis Núñez Fernández

  • Elian Laura

  • Marleny Hilasaca

  • Jesús García-Ramírez

  • Isabel Metzger

  • Julio Cesar Mendoza Bobadilla

  • Karla Lizbeth Caballero Barajas

 
  • Laura Naomi Montoya

  • Lucia Cipolina-Kun

  • Yuchen Lu

  • Matias Valdenegro-Toro

  • Mateo Dulce Rubio

  • Vedurumudi Priyanka

  • Pablo Samuel Castro

  • Soumye Singhal

  • Eduardo Ulises Moya Sánchez

  • Jose Gallego-Posada

  • Omar U. Florez

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