Amparo Alonso Betanzos
Amparo Alonso-Betanzo in 2014
Born	October 10, 1961 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 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).^[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.