Biography

Verónica Bolón-Canedo received her B.S. (2009), M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees in Computer Science from the University of A Coruña (Spain). After a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Manchester, UK (2015), she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña. She received the Best Thesis Proposal Award (2011) and the Best Spanish Thesis in Artificial Intelligence Award (2014) from the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA). She has extensively published in the area of machine learning and feature selection. On these topics, she has co-authored two books, seven book chapters, and more than 100 research papers in international conferences and journals. She co-organized several special sessions at international conferences, such as ESANN and IJCNN, and served in program and scientific committees. Her current research interests include machine learning, feature selection and big data. She has served as Secretary of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence and is member of the Spanish Young Academy and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain.