Microsoft at NeurIPS 2021

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

10:00 – 15:00 | Affinity Workshop
LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 (2) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte, Patrick Feeney, Lourdes Ramírez Cerna, Walter M Mayor, Omar U. Florez, Rosina Weber, Rocio Zorrilla
Microsoft Gold Sponsored

11:00 – 14:33 | Affinity Workshop
New in ML (2) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Haozhe Sun, Wenzhuo Liu, Joseph Pedersen
Speaker: Yale Song (opens in new tab)

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

18:00 – 23:00 | Affinity Workshop
WiML Workshop (1) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney

Thursday, December 9, 2021

18:00 – 23:00 | Affinity Workshop
WiML Workshop (2) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney

Friday, December 10, 2021

02:00 – 07:00 | Affinity Workshop
WiML Workshop (3) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney

11:00 – 15:00 | Affinity Workshop
WiML Workshop (4) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve Gürel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney

Monday, December 13, 2021

01:00 – 12:30 | Workshop
Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of Causality and Robustness (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike
Panelist: Solon Barocas (opens in new tab)

04:50 – 14:10 | Workshop
I (Still) Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A workshop for “beautiful” ideas that “should” have worked (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Aaron Schein, Melanie F. Pradier (opens in new tab), Jessica Forde,  Stephanie Hyland (opens in new tab), Francisco Ruiz
Senior Advisory Board: Hanna Wallach (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 12:10 | Workshop
Machine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou
Speaker: Vasilis Syrgkanis (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 17:00 | Workshop
AI for Science: Mind the Gaps (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Payal Chandak, Yuanqi Du, Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Shengchao Liu, Ziming Liu, Gabriel Spadon, Max Tegmark, Hanchen Wang, Adrian Weller, Max Welling, Marinka Zitnik
Speaker: Tie-Yan Liu (opens in new tab)

06:00 – 15:30 | Workshop
Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Anima Anandkumar, Kyle Cranmer, Mr. Prabhat, Lenka Zdeborová, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Juan Carrasquilla, Emine Kucukbenli, Gilles Louppe, Benjamin Nachman, Brian Nord, Savannah Thais
Steering Committee: Prabhat Ram

07:00 – 16:45 | Workshop
Human Centered AI (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller
Program Committee: Samir Passi, Longqi Yang (opens in new tab)

08:00 – 00:00 | Workshop
CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Steven Y. Feng, Dor Arad Hudson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, DONGYEOP Kang, Varun Prashant Gangal, Anusha Balakrishnan (opens in new tab), Joel Tetreault

09:00 – 18:00 | Workshop
Distribution shifts: connecting methods and applications (DistShift) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Fanny Yang, Hongseok Namkoong, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko, Percy Liang, Sarah Bird (opens in new tab), Sergey Levine

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

03:45 – 15:00 | Workshop
Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Breandan Considine, Disha Shrivastava, David Yu-Tung Hui, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Xujie Si, Prakash Panangaden, Guy Van den Broeck, Daniel Tarlow
Speaker: Daniel Selsam (opens in new tab)

04:55 – 16:30 | Workshop
Your Model is Wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modeling (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Diana Cai, Sameer Deshpande, Michael Hughes, Tamara Broderick, Trevor Campbell, Nick Foti, Barbara Engelhardt, Sinead Williamson
Speaker: Lester Mackey (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 12:20 | Workshop
Out-of-distribution generalization and adaptation in natural and artificial intelligence (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Joshua T Vogelstein, Weiwei Yang (opens in new tab), Soledad Villar, Zenna Tavares, Johnathan Flowers, Onyema Osuagwu
Speakers: Eric Traut, Doug Burger (opens in new tab), Chris White (opens in new tab), Sujeeth Bharadwaj (opens in new tab), Emre Kiciman (opens in new tab), Amit Sharma (opens in new tab), Max Welling
Program Committee: Chris White (opens in new tab), Sujeeth Bharadwaj (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 14:10 | Workshop
Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning? (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Manfred Díaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine
Speaker: Katja Hofmann (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 14:30 | Workshop
Bridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Julia Vogt, Ece Ozkan, Sonali Parbhoo, Melanie F. Pradier (opens in new tab), Patrick Schwab, Shengpu Tang, Mario Wieser, Jiayu Yao
Speakers: Rich Caruana (opens in new tab), Stephanie Hyland (opens in new tab)

05:00 – 14:00 | Workshop
Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL) (opens in new tab)
Organizers: 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 (opens in new tab), Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang

05:20 – 14:00 | Workshop
Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS (opens in new tab)
Organizers: DOU QI, Marleen de Bruijne, Ben Glocker, Aasa Feragen, Herve Lombaert, Ipek Oguz, Jonas Teuwen, Islem Rekik, Darko Stern, Xiaoxiao Li
Program Committee: Ozan Oktay (opens in new tab)

06:00 – 15:00 | Workshop
Deep Generative Models and Downstream Applications (opens in new tab)
Organizers: José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Yingzhen Li, Yichuan Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Austin Tripp, Weiwei Pan, Oren Rippel
Microsoft sponsored workshop

06:00 – 14:35 | Workshop
Second Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Xiao-Yang Liu, Qibin Zhao, Ivan Oseledets, Yufei Ding, Guillaume Rabusseau, Khadijeh Najafi, Andrzej Cichocki, Masashi Sugiyama, Anwar Walid
Speaker: Anima Anandkumar (2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship)

07:00 – 14:10 | Workshop
Machine learning from ground truth: New medical imaging datasets for unsolved medical problems (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Katy Haynes, Ziad Obermeyer, Emma Pierson, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Matthew Lungren, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew McDermott