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Self-nomination for reviewing at NeurIPS 2025

Authors:
Program Chairs: Razvan Pascanu, Nancy Chen, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Piotr Koniusz, Hsuan-Tien Lin;
Assistant Program Chairs: Elena Burceanu, Junhao Dong, Zhengyuan Liu, Po-Yi Lu, Isha Puri

NeurIPS relies on the active participation of the research community to evaluate numerous submissions and uphold scientific quality. Being involved in the reviewing process provides an opportunity to engage with the NeurIPS community, while contributing to the advancement of research excellence. Starting this year, we are aiming to enhance transparency and fairness of the NeurIPS reviewing process by introducing a self-nomination system, in addition to the usual reviewer invitation procedures. The main track and the D&B track decided to recruit reviewers and area chairs together this year, and the selected ones will be allocated to either the main track or the D&B track afterwards.

Criteria

We encourage anyone who wants to be part of the NeurIPS community and believes has the experience to act as a reviewer or area chair to apply. Good research cannot happen without fair and careful review, and being a reviewer or an area chair is an integral part of being a researcher and will help you hone vital skills that will help you in your career. 

To provide guidance of whether you are ready to be a reviewer or an area chair, we provide a few criteria. Note that you should not take these criteria in a very strict sense, and you do not need to meet all of them, but rather a subset of them to qualify. 

Also, as our goal is to increase fairness, we understand that individuals may come from different contexts, and due to the large diversity of backgrounds in the field, many might qualify as strong reviewers without fitting the criteria below. In that sense, we provide a free-form text box that allows self-nominations to justify their readiness to be a reviewer if their background does not fit the criteria below. 

As this initiative is intended to extend the list of reviewers from previous years, depending on the volume of self-nomination applications and the needs of the conference, we may invite only a random subset of eligible candidates. So please do not treat not being selected as not being qualified for the role you applied for and do consider re-applying in future years, as the pool of reviewers changes from year to year. 

If you have accepted an invitation to be a reviewer, but want to self-nominate as an AC, please note that in the form you should indicate that you previously accepted being a reviewer. This will allow us to remove you from the double role in case you are selected. Please understand that the most crucial role in the whole reviewing pipeline is that of the reviewer, and is where NeurIPS needs most support. So in case you are not selected as an AC, please consider staying as a reviewer providing your expertise in judging submitted works. 

Self-nominating reviewers

For each self-nomination application for reviewing at NeurIPS 2025, we will consider the following criteria as relevant. You do not need to meet all of them, but should ideally meet several of them to qualify.

  • Hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field
  • Published at least 2 papers as first author in the past 5 years in any conference/journal from the following list: REVIEWER_VENUE_LIST
  • Received at least 10 citations on your first-authored papers (in relevant fields)
  • Served as a reviewer at any conference/journal in REVIEWER_VENUE_LIST, for at least 2 times in a row
  • Be an author on at least 4 peer-reviewed papers (this can include non-archival venues like workshops) on relevant topics

REVIEWER_VENUE_LIST: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, WACV, COLM, CoLLAs, RLC, AISTATS, KDD, IJCAI, AAAI, COLT, ML4H, CHIL, TMLR, JMLR

If you are willing to self-nominate to serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS 2025, please fill in this form.

Self-nominating ACs

For each self-nomination application for being an AC at NeurIPS 2025, we will consider the following criteria as relevant. You do not need to meet all of them, but should ideally meet several of them to qualify.

  • At least 5 last-authored papers accepted at AC_CONF_LIST in the past 5 years
  • At least 10 papers accepted at AC_CONF_LIST in the area of expertise
  • Served as an AC at any conference in the AC_CONF_LIST at least 2 times in a row
  • Served as a reviewer at AC_CONF_LIST at least 5 times in a row

AC_CONF_LIST: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, COLT

If you are willing to self-nominate to serve as an AC for NeurIPS 2025, please fill in this form.

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