Soliciting self-nominations for area chairs for the NeurIPS 2026 position paper track

We are asking community members to self-nominate as Area Chair for the 2026 Position Paper Track! In line with the track’s aim of expanding topical scope, we are looking for experts from a diverse range of disciplines. NeurIPS relies upon the active participation of the community to evaluate submissions and uphold scientific quality. Area chairs in particular help manage reviewers for submissions, making sure that their reviews are high-quality and on-time, and provide accept/reject recommendations based upon reviewer assessment and discussion. 

Criteria

We welcome self-nominations from anyone who is or wants to be part of the NeurIPS community, and believes they have the experience to act as an area chair. Although we provide some guidance below, especially because we are soliciting self-nominations from a wide range of backgrounds, we recognize that many nominees may qualify as strong area chairs without meeting all (or many) of the criteria below. Thus, we also provide a free-form text box for nominees to justify their readiness. 

To provide some guidelines, we generally expect area chairs to:

• Be relatively senior, meaning they have a mature published research portfolio and experience in a supervisory capacity in projects.
  • A rule-of-thumb is 3-5 last-authored peer-reviewed publications, and 8-10 peer-reviewed publications in any capacity
• To have at minimum two years of experience either as a reviewer or area chair for a major machine learning or related conference (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV/ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, COLT, FAccT, ACM)

To self-nominate, please fill out our Google forms here. We only accept self-nominations, but we would appreciate anyone who would forward this form to colleagues who would be well-suited: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IQWm78nsVFJW7UXU7QgmKXtA2JVSipnSbbCXy609rvU

Alex Lu, David Rügamer, and Seth Lazar
Position Paper Chairs 2026