Amparo Alonso-Betanzos (born 1961) is a Spanish computer scientist and president of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Career
She is a professor at
University of A Coruña
The University of A Coruña ( gl, Universidade da Coruña) is a Spanish public university located in the city of A Coruña, Galicia. Established in 1989, university departments are divided between two primary campuses in A Coruña and nearby Fer ...
, where she leads the Laboratory for the Investigation and Development of Artificial Intelligence (LIDIA).
Originally a
chemical engineer
In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is a professional, equipped with the knowledge of chemical engineering, who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products and deals with the ...
, her research now focuses on
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
, specifically its medical applications.
Achievements and honours
In 1998, she was awarded the
L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women In Science in Spain.
Selected research
*Bolón-Canedo, Verónica, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, and Amparo Alonso-Betanzos. "A review of feature selection methods on synthetic data." Knowledge and information systems 34.3 (2013): 483–519.
*Bolón-Canedo, Verónica, et al. "A review of microarray datasets and applied feature selection methods." Information Sciences 282 (2014): 111–135.
*Sánchez-Maroño, Noelia, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, and María Tombilla-Sanromán. "Filter methods for feature selection–a comparative study." International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.
*Bolon-Canedo, Veronica, Noelia Sanchez-Marono, and Amparo Alonso-Betanzos. "Feature selection and classification in multiple class datasets: An application to KDD Cup 99 dataset." Expert Systems with Applications 38.5 (2011): 5947–5957.
References
External links
University profileinterview about AI
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1961 births
Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of A Coruña faculty
Scientists from Galicia (Spain)