LÓPEZ DE LUISE, MARÍA DANIELA

María Daniela López de Luise was born in Lomas de Zamora. She now lives in Buenos Aires, where she is Associated Professor and Researcher at the University of Palermo, she was the leader and co-ordinator of Project 004121 Artificial intelligence for software quality improvement – login to the DB to access the project.

Daniela is married and has two daughters

She first came across computers at the age of 14, first learning BASIC and developing a passion for computer languages and systems, which has been the basis of her career.

Her interests are primarily in computational linguistics and machine learning application, in addition Daniela is heavily involved organising and running meetings to promote soft computing technologies, for both young people and professionals.

She is currently full-time Associated Professor and researcher for Palermo University (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Her work experience is extensive, primarily in IT research, having been involved in research projects as varied signature validation to autonomous mobile robots with consciousness. Daniela has worked with and advised many International Companies - a very wide range of interests.

Her academic background includes four Degrees, one in System Analysis from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Engineering degree in Computer Science as equivalences in Spain. One further Degree in Expert System Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, and yet one more, a PhD, in Computing Science from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

She has spoken at many Seminars (many of them written within the framework of the Argentine's Annual National, Technological and Scientific week), written many articles, books and papers on topics related to Computational Intelligence.

She is fluent in Spanish and English and can read Italian and German, but she is improving her spoken German also.

To give some idea of her commitment and energy we simply have to list her accomplishments.

• President and founder of IEEE CIS Argentinean Chapter
• RED-PI network president (for research and developments in Computational Intelligence)
• Scientific committee of CICA 2009, TAR I, TRIC II, TRIC III, TRIC IV, SCSS
• Program committee of ECIMAG 2011 and 2010. Student Game-based Competition.
• Permanent non-blind reviewer for CISCI (Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática).
• Member of the Program Committee ECIMAG 2011. August 8th – 12th, 2011. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AIres, Buenos Aires, Argentine. 4th School and Workshop of Image Sciences.
• Designed as non-blind additional Peer Reviewer of papers in Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics congress: CISCI 2010. June 29 to July 2, 2010, Orlando, Florida ~ USA.
• Jury of MATE.AR annual tournament, since 2003.
• Member of the IEEE Admission & Advancement (A&A). 2008.
• member of Sociedad para las matemáticas industriales y aplicadas (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM), since 2008-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1985.
• Evaluator in Science and Technology sessions. Organized by the Buenos Aires government. 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008.
• Jury of the national contest MATE.AR for web pages design. Science category. Since 2003 up to now.
• Banco Rio Bank award for directing projects WIH (2011), PI-1 (2011), “SIR: Sistema Inteligente Robotizado” (2008), “FIC: Indexación de sonidos” (2007), “Detección de problemas de aprendizaje en la niñez” (2007)
• FONSOFT 2010. (Res. RC TIC 161/10 )
• Winner staff of the 2010 IEEE foreign chapter, as part of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• FONCyT 2009. (Res. ANPCyT N°157/08)
• 3th position in the TechDay Congress for TATA Consultancy Services enterprise. Project AJI. (2007)

Her outside interests include swimming, enjoying her two children, listening to Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and on good days Wagner.

We would like to thank her for providing the information and wish her good fortune as she continues her exceptional career.

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