Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2025!

Important Dates

InfoSession (Register Here): Friday, July 25, 2025, 8 AM PT/11 AM ET

Submission Deadlines:

LINK FOR SUBMISSIONS

Visa-Friendly Deadline: Thursday, July 31, 2025, EoD Anywhere on Earth

Regular Deadline: Thursday, August 14, 2025, EoD Anywhere on Earth

Workshop & Social:

Dates and Details Forthcoming!

🌈 Mission

Queer in AI’s workshop and socials at NeurIPS 2025 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.

  • 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 2025 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 2025 (being held in San Diego, California), please aim to submit by our visa-friendly submission deadline of Thursday, July 31st (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 (Thursday, Jul 31) and require visas to present in-person, notifications of acceptance or denial will be sent out by Tuesday, August 19 (Anywhere on Earth).

    For folks who submit by our final deadline (Thursday, August 14), notifications of acceptance or denial will be sent out by Tuesday, September 16 (Anywhere on Earth).

Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2025: Organizers

  • William Agnew (he/they) (william.agnew@ostem.org): William Agnew is a CBI postdoc fellow at CMU. His research covers AI ethics, participatory design, critiques of AI, queerness and AI, and resistance and AI. He received his PhD from University of Washington. His work had been recognized by three paper awards at FaccT and CHI, and covered by outlets including the Washington Post, Wired, and MIT Tech Review.

  • Franziska Sofia Hafner (she/her) (Franziska.Hafner@oii.ox.ac.uk): Sofia is a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, where she will be starting a PhD in October 2025. Her research lives at the intersection of Computer Science and Social Science, with a specific focus on algorithmic fairness.

  • Michelle Lin (she/her) (Michelle.lin2@mail.mcgill.ca) : 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.

  • Ankush Gupta (he/they) (ankushg0405@gmail.com): Ankush is a research assistant at the Centre for Human Centred Computing at IIIT-Delhi. He focuses his research on Human-Centred AI and edge computing. His research involves utilising deep learning and natural language processing to develop algorithms that improve human interaction and mitigate user biases to make AI systems more inclusive and effective.

  • Zhendong Li (he/they) (zhl923@lehigh.edu): Zhendong Li, is a second-year PhD student in the ISE department of Lehigh University and he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shanghai University in 2023. His research interests mainly focus on optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations and saddle point systems.

  • Nikolay Malkin (they/any) (https://malkin1729.github.io) is a Chancellor's Fellow in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of CIFAR's Learning in Machines and Brains programme. Their research foci include probabilistic machine learning, generative models, and neurosymbolic methods for reasoning in language and formal systems. A mathematician by training and a Bayesian by conviction, they are committed to diversity-aware agent design and to challenging the perpetuation of all oppressive categories in science and beyond.