title: Amparo Alonso Betanzos
text: # Amparo Alonso Betanzos
  
  Amparo Alonso-Betanzos (born 1961) is a Spanish computer scientist and president of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence.
  
  ## Career
  
  She is a professor at University of A Coruña, 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.
  
  ## Achievements and honours
  
  In 1998, she was awarded the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women In Science in Spain.
  
  ## 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.
  