About

WiMIR is a group of people within the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. We are dedicated to promoting the role of, and increasing opportunities for, women in the MIR field. We meet to socialize, share information, and discuss in an informal setting, with the goal of building a community around women in our field.

Current committees 

WiMIR Mentoring Program 2020-2021

  • Mentoring Program Committee
    • Johanna Devaney, Brooklyn College, US
    • Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck, AT
    • Michael Mandel, Brooklyn College, US
  • Mentoring Student Volunteers
    • Yun-Ning Hung, Georgia Tech, US
    • Arshiya Gupta, University of San Francisco, US
    • Francesca Ronchini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
  • Thanks to all mentors: https://wimir.wordpress.com/mentoring-program/

WiMIR Editorial Team

  • Editorial Team
    • Alia Morsi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
    • Giorgia Cantisani, Télécom Paris, FR
    • Kyungyun Lee, KAIST, KR
    • Rui Guo, University of Sussex, UK
    • Saul Ivan Rivas Vega, UNAM, MX
  • Advisor

WiMIR Workshop 2021

Diversity & Inclusion @ISMIR2021

  • Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University, US
  • Jordan B. L. Smith, ByteDance, UK

WiMIR Advisors and Past Organizers

  • Amélie Anglade, Freelance Data Science Consultant, DE
  • Claire Arthur, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
  • Ching-Hua Chuan, University of Miami, US
  • Zhiyao Duan, University of Rochester, US
  • Emilia Gómez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES
  • Ryan Groves, Infinite Album, DE
  • Eric Humphrey, eSpark Learning, US
  • Katherine M. Kinnaird, Smith College, US
  • Audrey Laplante, Université de Montréal, CA
  • Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington, US
  • Preeti Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IN
  • Anja Volk, Utrecht University, NL
  • Zhongzhe Xiao, Soochow University, CN

If you have exciting new ideas for WiMIR events or would like to get involved in discussions and organization of existing events, join our group!

A little bit of history 

WiMIR has held an annual meeting at the ISMIR conference since 2012,  the very first meeting has been initiated by Ching-Hua Chuan (University of North Florida, USA) at ISMIR 2011 in Miami. A number of important issues ranging from mentorship, conference support, to improving the representativeness of women researchers in the community were discussed. The meetings have had a high turnout of both female and male attendees.

Photos from the WiMIR meeting at ISMIR 2014 can be viewed on Flickr (scroll to the right, apologies for the adverts), chaired by Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington, USA).

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wimir@ismir2014

The  WiMIR session was included in the conference program itself for the very first time at ISMIR 2015, resulting in a productive and successful session. The high turnout of participants can be noticed in the photos.  The slides presented at the meeting are available here.

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wimir@regular program, ismir 2015

Since 2016. ismir conference committees include wimir representatives.

People involved

WiMIR representatives at ISMIR conference committees

At ISMIR 2016, the conference committee included two wimir representative: Amélie Anglade (MIR Consultant, Germany) and Blair Kaneshiro (Stanford University, USA). The WiMIR session at ISMIR 2016 presented the outcomes of the first round of the mentoring program, and further plans on outreach to other communities. For the very first time, Amazon music sponsored a reception to celebrate the WiMIR mentoring program.

wimir@ ismir 2016

At ISMIR 2017 conference, WiMIR representatives are Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington, USA), Preeti Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) and Zhongzhe Xiao (Soochow University, Mainland China). Please contact them for exciting new ideas for 2017.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. (Anonymous)

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