Amparo Alonso Betanzos

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]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alonso and 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)

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.