Amparo Alonso Betanzos

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alonsoand the second or maternal family name is Betanzos.

Amparo Alonso Betanzos
Alonso-Betanzos in 2014
Born	(1961-10-10) October 10, 1961 (age 63) Vigo, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Education	Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Medical College of Georgia, United States
Occupation(s)	Professor, Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Employer(s)	University of A Coruña, Spain
Awards	L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (Spain)

Amparo Alonso-Betanzos (born October 10, 1961) is a Spanish computer scientist and was president of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (2013-2021). ^[1]

Career

She is a professor at University of A Coruña, ^[2] where she leads the Laboratory for the Investigation and Development of Artificial Intelligence (LIDIA). ^[1] Originally a chemical engineer, her research now focuses on artificial intelligence, specifically its medical applications. ^[3]

Achievements and honours

In 1998, she was awarded the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women In Science in Spain. ^[4]

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

1. "Directorio TIC - Ciencia y Tecnologia" (PDF). inmujer.gob.es. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
2. "Resolución de 20 de mayo de 2002". Boletín Oficial del Estado. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
3. de la Huerta, María (24 February 2007). "Embarazos 'inteligentes'". La Opinion A Coruña. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
4. Ramirez-Gallego, Sergio (2017). "An Information Theory-Based Feature Selection Framework for Big Data Under Apache Spark" (PDF). University of Granada Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved May 24, 2020.

External links

• University profile
• interview about AI
• Amparo Alonso Betanzos publications indexed by Google Scholar