WAILabs

WAILabs is on a mission to conduct, facilitate and promote research led by our community in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Our Mission

Women in AI founded WAILabs for conducting interdisciplinary and inclusive research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on bias and fairness. Join us to become part of WAILabs, a global research hub advancing AI across multiple disciplines & domains, producing tangible results for practice and society. We aim to increase opportunities for women researchers in AI, so we have a say and a place in the AI research landscape.

Neurips 2025 Social: Value Chain of Research to ROI

Organised by Women in AI, Products By Women

We’re excited to share Women in AI and Products By Women are together hosting a social at NeurIPS 2025, happening in San Diego, Dec 3–7!

We seek to understand: how even more economic activity and impact can be derived by establishing pathways from applied research at higher TRLs to larger ecosystems consisting of products, businesses, communities of practices? How can research be ready to accelerate into products/applied solutions? What environments, funding models, catalysts, actors, processes need to be in place in order to facilitate outcomes of research to better integrate and propel new ideas into societies, with safeguards? The event is structured to help researchers and stakeholders recognise, articulate, and harness their research’s broader potential, emphasising ecosystem thinking and practical steps needed to scale research impact.

The social will last for 2 hours, with the first hour being a panel discussion with senior research, technology, and product leaders from academia, major technology companies and industry labs addressing above questions, followed by group activity on possible sector-specific product ideas built on attendee’s own research, coached by mentors.

Please note: While this social is organised by women’s orgs, it is about research, with the above topic in focus. EVERYONE who is a registered attendee to Neurips 2025 is welcome to attend.

In order to gauge interest and make logistical arrangements, please sign up in this form:

https://forms.gle/yyi9jNgYdHGuG9YS9

If you have questions, email wailabs@womeninai.co, with "Neurips-25 Socials" as the subject.

Organisers

Dr. Vinutha Magal Shreenath, Chief Research Officer, Women in AI
Frincy Clement, Head of North America, Women in AI
Naimeesha Murthy, Founder, Products By Women
Suparna Pawar, Chief of Staff, Women in AI USA

Meet WAI Labs Team

Vinutha Magal Shreenath

Chief Research Officer

Vinutha is a computer scientist, working on innovation and use of AI technology in systems across Space, Healthcare and Transport sectors at lower TRLs. Her work, and interests lie in mediation between the artificial and the real, building and understanding AI models, and making them useful in the real world through relevant methodologies.
Her mandate as CRO in WAI is to increase opportunities for women researchers.

Jauwairia Nasir

Head of Initiatives

Jauwairia Nasir is a postdoctoral fellow at Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at University of Augsburg. Her research interests broadly include human-machine interaction, social robotics, multimodal behavioral analysis, and machine learning applied in the fields of education and health care.

Hanan Salam

Co-Founder Women in AI

Hanan works as Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research activities and interests span the areas of Human-Robot Interaction, automatic understanding of human behavior, social signal processing and affective computing.

WAILabs:
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There are many more opportunities for synergy and we look forward to hearing from you!

Please contact us to discuss your ideas vinutha@womeninai.co