Verónica Bolón-Canedo (born 1984) is a Spanish computer scientist whose research concerns
feature selection
In machine learning, feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant Feature (machine learning), features (variables, predictors) for use in model construction. Feature selection techniques are used for several reasons:
* sim ...
in
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
, with applications including medical diagnosis, oil spill detection, and automated educational assessment. She is a professor at the
University of A Coruña
The University of A 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 Ferrol. The A Coruña campus i ...
.
Education and career
Bolón-Canedo was born in
Carballo in 1984. She studied computer science at the nearby
University of A Coruña
The University of A 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 Ferrol. The A Coruña campus i ...
, earning a bachelor's degree in 2009, a master's degree in 2010, and completing her Ph.D. in 2014.
After postdoctoral research at the
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...
in the UK, she returned to the University of A Coruña as an assistant professor. She later became a full professor there, in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies.
Books
Bolón-Canedo is the author or editor of books including:
*''Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data'' (with Noelia Sánchez-Maroño and
Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2015)
*''Recent Advances in Ensembles for Feature Selection'' (with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2018)
*''Microarray Bioinformatics'' (edited with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2019)
Recognition
Bolón-Canedo was elected to the Young Academy of Spain in 2020.
She was elected as a corresponding member of the
Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (Spanish: ''Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales'') is an academic institution and learned society that was founded in Madrid in 1847. It is dedicated to the study and research of mathematic ...
in 2022.
References
External links
Faculty profile University of A Coruña
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Living people
Spanish computer scientists
Spanish women computer scientists
University of A Coruña alumni
Academic staff of the University of A Coruña
1984 births