María Amparo Alonso Betanzos

Amparo Alonso Betanzos is a Full Professor in ​​Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at CITIC-University of A Coruña (UDC), Spain and a Prof. II at the Department of Psychology, NTNU. Her research lines are the development of Scalable Machine Learning models, Reliable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, and Green and Frugal AI, among others. She has published over 200 articles in journals, international conferences, books, and book chapters, participating in more than 30 competitive European, national and local research projects.     

She was formerly President of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (2013-21). She is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. She has participated as a member of the Working Group on Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, which collaborated in drafting the Spanish R&D&I Strategy in Artificial Intelligence in 2018. She is currently a member of CAIA, the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Function of the Government of Spain, since 2020, as well as a Member of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Government of Spain, since 2023. She is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Democracy  

She is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences since October 2023.