Amparo Alonso Betanzos Explained

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

Amparo Alonso-Betanzos (born 1961) is a Spanish computer scientist and president of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence.^[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). 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.

External links

• University profile
• interview about AI

Notes and References

1. Web site: Directorio TIC - Ciencia y Tecnologia . inmujer.gob.es . 9 September 2019.
2. Web site: Resolución de 20 de mayo de 2002. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 9 September 2019.
3. Web site: de la Huerta . María . Embarazos 'inteligentes' . La Opinion A Coruña . 24 February 2007 . 9 September 2019.
4. Web site: An Information Theory-Based Feature Selection Framework for Big Data Under Apache Spark. Ramirez-Gallego. Sergio. 2017. University of Granada Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201027231015/https://sci2s.ugr.es/sites/default/files/bbvasoftware/publications/07970198.pdf . 2020-10-27 . May 24, 2020.