FRANCES ALLEN Award

This award, granted by AEPIA, aims to give visibility to women researchers in the fields of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Its goal is to highlight the work of scholarship holders, professors, and researchers as role models for future female students.

It is named after Frances E. Allen, an American computer scientist and the first woman to receive the Turing Award (2006), an expert in compilers and code optimization.

Contact: caepia2026_FrancesAllen@easychair.org

Evaluation Committee

  • Verónica Bolón, Universidade Da Coruña.
  • José Antonio Gámez, Universidad Castilla La Mancha.
  • Eva Onaindía, Universitat Politècnica de València.

Awards

Two awards will be granted for the best PhD theses defended by women between April 13, 2023 and the final proposal submission deadline:

  • First Prize: 350 euros and accreditation diploma.
  • Second Prize: 150 euros and accreditation diploma.

More information about the awards here.

Award Winners

  • First prize: Ainhize Barrainkua
    New Perspectives on Machine Learning Fairness: Algorithmic Design and Evaluation

  • Second prize: Andrea Morales Garzón
    Aprendizaje profundo y procesamiento del lenguaje natural en fuentes heterogéneas de datos masivos

Format

Candidates must submit a document (in Spanish or English) of maximum 6 pages in LNAI format (Word | LaTeX2e) including:

InformationThesis title, supervisor(s), department/university, defense date, and final grade.
AbstractBrief description of the thesis.
PublicationsList of relevant publications, which must include the JCR index if it is a journal, its relative position in the field, citations in SCOPUS or WOS, and its relationship with the PhD thesis.
RelevanceBrief justification of the relevance of the thesis: knowledge transfer achieved from it, projects, research stays, etc.

Submission and Final Dates