Become a Member

The ELLIS Society is a network of scientific excellence comprised of top scientists and researchers working in the field of AI in Europe.

Membership in the ELLIS Society is open to scientists who:

• have a PhD or equivalent degree;

• regularly publish at the following top tier venues in machine learning-driven fields: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, JMLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCV, PAMI, RSS, CoRL, TRO, IJRR, Science Robotics, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, COLT, UAI, AAMAS, AISTATS, TACL, SIGIR, WSDM, Web Conference, ACM FAccT, KDD, SIGGRAPH, ACM Multimedia;

• work in Europe or have some other relation to Europe.

Process

Application Requirements

• Fulfillment of the membership requirements:

  1. Have PhD or equivalent degree

  2. Regularly publish at top tier venues in machine learning-driven fields

  3. Work in Europe

• Application Form

• Endorsement by 2 ELLIS Members

Nominations: The first step

To start the application process, a nomination message explaining how the candidate scientist meets the above criteria should be sent to membership@ellis.eu. Both self-nominations and nominations by existing ELLIS Members are welcome.

Endorsements

The application needs to be endorsed by two existing members of the ELLIS society who

• (a) work in a different country than the candidate and

• (b) do not have the same nationality as the candidate.

The endorsements should be requested beforehand: the applicant needs to ask the endorser to send a brief email supporting the application to membership@ellis.eu. ELLIS will not contact your endorsers on your behalf.

The names of the endorsing members should be included in the application email.

ℹ️ There is no fee for membership in ELLIS.