NOTE:
- Community Call For Contributions for 2021 summer schools: Please open pull requests for any summer schools you come across! Thank you :)
- The schools are arranged in reverse chronogical order by date
- Regarding the fee : Usually lower end of the fee is for students while the higher end is for industry folks. Please refer to the individual school website for further details
| Name and Link | Location | Organiser | Dates | Deadline | Fee | Aid (Travel Grants etc) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaussian Process Summer Schools (GPSS) 2021 | Online | University Of Sheffield | Sep 13 - Sep 16 | Open: end of May | N/A | N/A |
| Leibniz Mathematical Modeling and Simulation Summer School 2021 | N/A | Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics | Aug 23 - Aug 27 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Summer School of Machine Learning at Skoltech (SMILES) 2021 | Online | Skoltech | Aug 15 - Aug 22 | Aug 1 | Free | N/A |
| Oxford Machine Learning Summer School | Online | AI for Global Goals, CIFAR, Deep Medicine Program at Oxford) | Aug 9 - Aug 20 | April 30 | £60 - £300 | 50% discount for low and middle income countries |
| Neuromatch Academy-Deep Learning 2021 | Online | Neuromatch | Aug 2 - Aug 20 | May 7 | N/A | financial aid is available |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Taipei) | Taipei, Taiwan | N/A) | Aug 2 - Aug 13 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Deep Learning Theory Summer School at Princeton | New Jersey, Virtual | Princeton University | July 27 - Aug 4, 2021 | March 31, 2021 via email | N/A | N/A |
| International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2021) | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | IRDTA | July 26 - July 30 | Feb 24 (Early) to On-site | N/A | N/A |
| Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School | Online | EEML Team | July 7 - July 15 | April 15 | N/A | N/A |
| Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL 2021) | Announced | CIFAR | N/A | Feb (applications open) | N/A | N/A |
| Human-aligned AI Virtual Summer School 2021 | Online | Centre for Theoretical Study et al. | July or August | end of May (applications open) | N/A | N/A |
| 4th Advanced Online & Onsite Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL 2021) | Tuscany Italy, Virtual | ACDL Team | July 19 - July 23 | May 14 | €550(Onsite); €270(Online) | N/A. |
| London Geometry and Machine Learning(LOGML) Summer School | London, Virtual | LOGML Team | July 12 - July 16 | May 31 | £20 | Scholarships available. |
| Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School | Online | EEML Team | July 7 - July 15 | March 31 | N/A | N/A |
| Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School | Online | LxMLS Team | July 7 - July 15 | May 15 | €50 | free for students and researchers in public institutions |
| Neuromatch Academy-Computational Neuroscience 2021 | Online | Neuromatch | July 5 - July 23 | May 7 | N/A | financial aid is available |
| PRAIRIE/MIAI Artificial Intelligence Summer School | Online | PRAIRIE & MIAI Institutes, France | July 5 - July 9 | May 24 | Free | N/A |
| Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (8th edition) Summer School | Online | Ixa NLP research group | July 5 - July 9 | June 27 | €274 | N/A |
| Artificial Intelligence and Games Summer School 2021 | Online | modl.ai | July 5 - July 9 | June 15 | €150-€250 | N/A |
| Vision Understanding & Machine Intelligence Summer School 2021 (VISUM 2021) | Online | INESC TEC | July 2 - July 9 | May 28 | €75 | N/A |
| ACM India Summer Schools 2021 | Virtual | ACM India | June 14 - June 25 (Shape Modelling); July 5 - July 16 (NLP) | May 18 | N/A | N/A |
| 5th Summer School on Artificial Intelligence 2021 | Virtual | IIIT Hyderabad & IIT Kanpur | July 1 - July 31 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Nordic Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) | Virtual | Norwegian Open AI Lab + Norwegian University of Science and Technology | June 14 - June 18 | March 31 | €50 - €300 | Scholarships available. |
| Duke Machine Learning Virtual Summer School 2021 | Virtual | Duke University | June 14 - June 17 | N/A | $50.00(student); $175.00(non-student) | N/A |
| NYU AI School | New York, Virtual | New York University | Jan 04 - 08, 2021 | N/A | Free | Online and entirely free |
Click to expand for 2020 summer schools
| Name and Link | Location | Organiser | Dates | Deadline | Fee | Aid (Travel Grants etc) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School | Milan, Italy | NA | Jan 11 - 16, 2021 | March 16 | €100~€500 | Limited funding is available for registration-fee waivers and travel/accommodation scholarships. |
| AI Summer School | Virtual | Google Research India | August 20-22, 2020 | June 26 | Free | NA |
| Tsinghua University Deep Learning summer school (for UNDERGRADUATE ONLY) 2020 | Beijing, China | Tsinghua University, | June 29 - July 18, 2020 | June 01, 2020 | USD 390 | Limited number of scholarships. |
| Oxford Machine Learning Summer School 2020 | Oxford, UK (Virtual) | AI for Global Goals, Oxford Saïd Business School | Aug 17 - Aug 25 | April 30 | £30-£100 | Limited number of scholarships aimed for full time students from developing countries and under-represented groups |
| Machine Learning for Speech | Joensuu, Finland | University of Eastern Finland | Aug 17-21 | 15 June | €200-€1000 | NA |
| Summer School of Machine learning at Skoltech (SMILES 2020) | Online | Skoltech | Aug 16-21 | August 2 | Free | NA |
| Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computer Games | Joensuu, Finland | University of Eastern Finland | Aug 10-14 | 15 June | €200-€1000 | NA |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Indonesia) | Bandung, Indonesia (Virtual) | Telkom University | Aug 3-9 | April 30 | NA | NA |
| Summer School on Statistical Physics and Machine Learning | Les Houches, France | École de physique des Houches | Aug 2-28 (Postponed to an undefined date) | March 15 | ~€2000 (includes logding+meals) | |
| Summer School on AI for Optical Networks and Neuromorphic Photonics for AI Acceleration | Berlin, Germany | Fraunhofer HHI | Jul 27 - Jul 31 | May 31 | €380 | NA |
| Southeast Asia Machine Learning School (SeaMLS 2020) | Vietnam | SEA-MLS Team | July 20-25 (Postponed to an undefined date) | April 3 | $200-$300 (free for students) | Some travel assistance (transportation + accomodation) for students. |
| Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL 2020) | Online/Cancelled | CIFAR, MILA | July 29 - Aug 6 | Feb 22 | 700-1900 CAD | Limited financial support is available for students/postdocs |
| International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2020) | León, Guanajuato, Mexico (Cancelled) | IRDTA | July 27 - July 31 | Dec 29 (Early) to On-site | €310-€550 | No |
| Machine learning summer school in healthcare and biosciences | ETH Zürich, Switzerland | Bumblekite | July 19 – July 28 | March 15 | $600-$2,900 | Limited number of full and partial scholarships. |
| Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School | Online | EEML Team | July 6 - July 11 | April 20 | Free | Based on financial considerations |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Tübingen) | Online | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | June 28 - July 10 | Feb 11 | Free | Full & partial travel awards for strong applications. |
| AI and Games Summer School | Copenhagen, Denmark | modl.ai | June 22-26 | NA | €435~€935 | NA |
| North Africa Middle East Summer School (NASSMA 2020 Istanbul) | Istanbul, Turkey | NASSMA Team - ITU | June 22-27 | March 20 | €200-€1000 | Full/partial travel grants based on financial considerations for students. |
| Nordic Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) | Trondheim, Norway | Norwegian Open AI Lab + Norwegian University of Science and Technology | June 8 - June 12 (Postponed to 7-11 June 2021) | March 26 | €250 - €1000 | A limited number of scholarships will be provided. |
| Data Science Africa Summer School | Kampala, Uganda | Data Science Africa | June 22-26 | April 15 | NA | NA |
Click to expand for 2019 summer schools
| Name and Link | Location | Organiser | Dates | Deadline | Fee | Aid (Travel Grants etc) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khipu: Latinamerican Meeting In Artificial Intelligence | Montevideo, Uruguay | Universidad de la República | Nov 11 - Nov 15 | June 28 | Free for students | Travel support scholarships |
| PRAIRIE AI Summer School | Paris, France | INRIA Grenoble | October 3-5 | September 6 | £200-£600 | Financial support for students to encourage diversity |
| Gaussian Process and Uncertainty Quantification Summer School | Sheffield, UK | University Of Sheffield | Sep 9 - Sep 12 | July 1 for early bird | £270-£750 | NA |
| Deep Learning in NLP Summer School | Varna, Bulgaria | - | Aug 29 - Aug 30 | NA | NA | NA |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Moscow) | Moscow, Russia | Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology | Aug 26 - Sep 6 | May 31 | 6000₽, $400-$1000 | Full & partial stipends for strong applications. Accomodation costs fully covered for the best applicants |
| Deep|Bayes Summer School | Moscow, Russia | Higher School Of Economics | Aug 20 - Aug 25 | April 15 | (₽1000-₽30000) | Will provide a limited number of travel grants |
| Deep Learning Indaba 2019 | Kenyatta, Kenya | Deep Learning Indaba | Aug 25 - Aug 31 | April 12 | Free for students | Travel support (expected 200+) |
| #NGSchool2019: Machine Learning for Biomedicine | Bialobrzegi near Warsaw, Poland | NGSchool Society | July 27 - Aug 3 | May 1 | €100 or €700 | Fee covers full accommodation and boars costs, provided positive result of IVF application travel grants also available |
| Human-Aligned AI Summer School | Prague, Czech Republic | Charles Univeristy and CTU | July 25-28 | June 25 | €100-€200 | Limited Financial Assistance |
| Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL 2019) | Edmonton, Canada | CIFAR, Alberta | July 24 - Aug 2 | Feb 22 (extended) | $685 - $1875 (CAD) | Limited financial support is available for students/postdocs |
| International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2019) | Warsaw, Poland | IRDTA | July 22 - July 26 | March 2 (Early) to On-site | €310-€520 | No |
| Summer School on Cognitive Robotics | Los Angeles, USA | University of Southern California | July 17 – July 21 | May 17 | $300-$450 | Fee includes accomodation in university dorms |
| Machine Leaning Summer School (MLSS London) | London, UK | Imperial and University College London | July 15 – July 26 | Jan 31 | £500-£2500 | Travel scholarships for students from developing countries |
| 2019 Deep Learning Summer School | Beijing, China | Tsinghua University | July 13 - July 26 | April 15 | $800 | Campus accomodation will be given |
| Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS 2019) | Lisbon, Portugal | Instituto Superior Técnico | July 11 - July 18 | March 31 | €300-€600 | Provide a limited number of scholarships |
| Southeast Asia Machine Learning School (SEA ML 2019) | Jakarta, Indonesia | SEA ML School Team | July 8 - July 12 | April 20 | Free for students. US $200 for non-students | Travel/Accommodation support for students from Southeast Asia. |
| International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2019) | Sicily, Italy | University of Catania | July 7 - July 13 | March 31 | €525-€960 | Provide prizes for poster presentation, reading group and essay competition |
| Vision Understanding and Machine Intelligence (VISUM 2019) | Porto, Portugal | INESCTEC and Portucalense University Infante D. Henrique | July 4 - July 12 | March 22 | €100-€700 | No |
| Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing | San Sebastian, Spain | University of the Basque Country | July 3 - 5 | July 1 | 184€ | NA |
| Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Summer School | Chania, Crete, Greece | EETN, the Hellenic AI Society | July 1 - July 5 | April 2 for grant, May 15 | €270-€450 | Limited financial support for students |
| Reinforcement Learning Summer School | Lille, France | INRIA Lille | July 1 - July 12 | Mar 15 | €480-€1920 | Master students and applicants from under-represented groups may apply for a discount |
| International Summer School on Deep Learning | Gdansk, Poland | Politechnika Gdańska | July 1 - July 5 | Feb 28 | €195-€245 | NA |
| Artificial Intelligence Summer School | Paris, France | Centrale Supélec | July 1 - July 5 | May 27 | €1800 | Registration fee includes accomodation in university dorms and travel passes |
| Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School | Bucharest, Romania | Politehnica University of Bucharest | July 1 - July 6 | March 29 | €100-€300 | Based on financial considerations |
| Summer School on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning | Frankfurt, Germany | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies | June 27 - July 3 | Jan 27 | NA | NA |
| Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning | Barcelona, Spain | UPC | June 26 - July 3 | NA | NA | NA |
| Deep Learning For Vision | Barcelona, Spain | UPC | June 25 - July 3 | June 10 | €429 | No (Priority will be given to UPC students for registration) |
| Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School 2019 | Madrid, Spain | UPM | June 24 - July 5 | June 19 | €250-€400 per course | NA |
| North African Machine Leaning Summer School (NASSMA) | Benguerir, Morocco | UM6P | June 24 - June 29 | Mar 15 | 2000 MAD | Have very limited positions for scholarships, where registration fees can be waived. In very rare cases, can contribute to travel costs |
| Data Science Summer School (DS3) | Paris, France | École Polytechnique | June 24 – June 28 | April 26 | €150 - €1500 | NA |
| Nordic Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) | Trondheim, Norway | Norwegian Open AI Lab + Norwegian University of Science and Technology | June 3 - June 7 | March 31 | €256 - €1024 | A limited number of scholarships will be provided. |
| AI and Games Summer School | New York, USA | Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius | May 27 - May 31 | Feb 28 for early bird | $500-$950 | Unity is offering 6 scholarships to PhD students/Indie developers |
| Deep Learning For Medical Imaging | Lyon, France | INSA Lyon | April 15 - April 19 | Feb 20 | NA | NA |
| Machine Leaning Summer School (MLSS Stellenbosch) | Stellenbosch, South Africa | Imperial and University College London | Jan 7 - Jan 18 | Nov 16 | NA | NA |
Click to expand for 2018 summer schools
| Name | Location | Organiser | Dates | Aid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer School on Machine Learning and Data Science | Abuja, Nigeria | Data Science Africa | 12 Nov - 16 Nov | NA |
| Deep Learning Indaba 2018 | Stellenbosch, South Africa | Deep Learning Indaba | Sep 9 - Sep 14 | Yes |
| Gaussian Process and Uncertainty Quantification Summer School (GPSS 2018) | Sheffield, UK | Sheffield University | Sep 3 - Sep 6 | No |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Madrid) | Madrid, Spain | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 27 Aug - 7 Sep | Yes |
| Deep|Bayes Summer School | Moscow, Russia | Higher School Of Economics | Aug 27 - Sep 1 | Yes |
| Summer School on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2018) | Ferrara, Italy | European Association for Artificial Intelligence | Aug 27 - Aug 31 | Yes |
| Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL 2018) | Toronto, Canada | CIFAR, Vector Institute | July 25 - Aug 3 | Yes |
| International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2018) | Genova, Italy | University of Genova | July 23 - July 27 | No |
| Transylvanian Machine Learning Summer School | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Romanian Institute of Science and Technology | July 16 - July 22 | Yes |
| Vision Understanding and Machine Intelligence (VISUM 2018) | Porto, Portugal | INESCTEC and Portucalense University Infante D. Henrique | July 5 - July 13 | NA |
| Summer Schools on Computer Vision And Machine Learning | Hyderabad, India | IIIT Hyderabad | July 2 - July 14 | No |
| PRAIRIE AI Summer School | Grenoble, France | INRIA Grenoble | July 2 - July 6 | Yes |
| Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS Buenos Aires) | Buenos Aires, Argentina | TO ADD | June 18 - June 30 | Yes |
| Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School | Madrid, Spain | Univ. Politécnica de Madrid | June 25 - July 3 | No |
| Data Science Summer School (DS3) | Paris, France | École Polytechnique | June 25 – June 29 | No |
| Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS 2018) | Lisbon, Portugal | Instituto Superior Técnico | June 14 - June 21 | Yes |
| Summer School on Machine Learning and Data Science | Nyeri, Kenya | Data Science Africa | May 31 - June 6 | NA |
| AI and Games Summer School | Crete (Chania), Greece | Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius | May 28 - June 1 | NA |
These are the summer schools which are usually held every year :
- Summer School of Machine Learning at Skoltech (SMILES): http://smiles.skoltech.ru
- CIFAR's Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning Summer School : https://dlrlsummerschool.ca
- Machine Learning Summer School (by Max Planck Institute, Tübingen) : http://mlss.cc/
- Tsinghua University Deep Learning Summer School (by Tsinghua University Beijing): http://ss.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/index.html
- Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School : http://lxmls.it.pt
- Gaussian Process Summer Schools (by University Of Sheffield) : http://gpss.cc/
- Data Science Summer School (by École Polytechnique) : http://www.ds3-datascience-polytechnique.fr/
- Deep Learning Indaba Summer Schools : http://www.deeplearningindaba.com
- Summer Schools on Computer Vision And Machine Learning (by IIIT Hyderabad) : http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/summerschoolseries/
- Resource Aware Machine Learning Summer Schools (by TU Dortmund) : https://sfb876.tu-dortmund.de/GK/index.html
- Artificial Intelligence and Games Summer Schools : http://school.gameaibook.org/
- International Computer Vision Summer Schools : http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/
- Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/deep_learning_seminar
- Nordic Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI): https://probabilistic.ai/
- Vision Understanding & Machine Intelligence Summer School (VISUM): https://www.instagram.com/visumschool/?hl=en
- Neuromatch Academy: https://academy.neuromatch.io/home
- Will Sheffield organize a Gaussian Processes Summer School in 2018?
- Videos of Deep|Bayes – Summer School on Bayesian Deep Learning
- Best deep learning/ML summer schools of 2018
- Probabilistic AI summer school: 5 reasons you must attend (ProbAI 2019)
- My first summer school (TMLSS 2018)
- An Insider's Look Into The Summer School Training The World's Top AI Researchers (CIFAR DLRL Summer School 2018)
- 2018 Deep Learning And Reinforcement Learning Summer School (CIFAR DLRL Summer School 2018)
- Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School Highlights(LxMLS 2018)
- [Field report] Data Science Summer School at Ecole Polytechnique (with Bengio, Russell, Bousquet, Archambeau and others)(DS3 2017)
- 6 things I learned in the deep learning summer school (DL Summer School 2015)
- Attending the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2014)