Members

Latinas in Computing began as a group of less than 10 members and now has more than 100 members. Below is a partial list of current members, which we update periodically. Read here about how to join Latinas in Computing. Once you are a member, if you would like to be listed below, please fill out our membership survey.


Alison Abreu-Garcia, Web Developer, alison.iag@gmail.com
Maria Gabriela Aguilera Nunez, Google, UTEP, Software Engineer in Test
   Current residence: San Francisco, CA
   Country of origin: Mexico
María del Mar Alvarez Rohena, Microsoft, Software Development Engineer in Test II
   Field(s) of interest: Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, Software Quality, Data Movement
   Current residence: Redmond, WA
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Nadia Anguiano-Wehde, IBM, Mechanical Development Engineer, nanguia@us.ibm.com
   Current residence: Rochester, MN
   Country of origin: Mexico
Annie I. Antón, North Carolina State University, additional website
   Field(s) of interest: Privacy, Security, Software Engineering
Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Computer scientist/professor, additional website
   Field(s) of interest: Human-computer interaction
Yina Arenas, Microsoft
   Country of origin: Colombia
Jennifer Arguello, SHPE, UCSD, Microsoft, Program Manager, jarguello@gmail.comadditional website
   Current residence: San Francisco, CA
   Country of origin: Costa Rica
Violeta Arroyo, Microsoft, Principal Program Manager, violeta@microsoft.com
   Field(s) of interest: Cloud computing
   Country of origin: Mexico
Naomi Caietti, PMP, State of California, Department of Corporations, PMI Leadership Institute Advisory Group, gantthead.com , Projects@Work, Latinas In Computing, , Enterprise Architect, Consultant, Credentialed Project Manager, ncaietti3@gmail.comadditional website
   Field(s) of interest: Enterprise Architecture, Data Center Services and Systems Integration, Security, Messaging Systems, Information Technology (IT) Project, Portfolio and Program Management, Virtual Communities of Practice, Leadership Program Strategist and Thought Leadership, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Business Intelligence/Teradata Systems.
   Current residence: California
Patty N Canales, BCP, CTO
   Field(s) of interest: IT Complexity, ADM Enterprise Architecture, MultiChannel Integration and Business Intelligence
   Current residence: Lima, Peru
   Country of origin: Peru
Mirkeya Capellan, Sogeti USA, Pace University, QA Manager Consultant / Adjunct Professor
   Field(s) of interest: Application Performance Testing, Agile Testing, Teaching Techniques, Graphic Designs
   Country of origin: Dominican Republic
Maria Lorena Carlo, Columbia University, PhD student
   Field(s) of interest: Biomedical Informatics
   Current residence: United States
   Country of origin: Ecuador
Claris Castillo, IBM Research, Research Staff Member
   Field(s) of interest: Distributed Systems
Alicia Chong Rodriguez, Teradyne, Test Development Engineer
   Country of origin: Costa Rica
Martha Cisneros, HP, Support Engineer
   Field(s) of interest: Human Computer Interaction, Social Media, Knowledge Management, Web development, Knowledge Databases
Dilma M Da Silva, IBM Research, Researcher & Manager
   Field(s) of interest: operating systems, cloud computing, distributed systems, parallel systems
   Current residence: New York
   Country of origin: Brazil
Ivonne Deliz, Columbia University, M.S. Student, ivydeliz@mac.com
   Field(s) of interest: Computer Vision, Graphics, Machine Learning
   Current residence: New York
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Dezbah Duchicela, IBM
Rosa Enciso, Microsoft, Software Development Engineer, rosa.enciso@gmail.com
   Field(s) of interest: algorithms, complexity, graph theory, graph theoretical applications
   Current residence: Seattle, WA
   Country of origin: Peru
Govana Espinos, Pasadena City College, g.espinos@hotmail.com
   Field(s) of interest:
   Current residence: United States
   Country of origin: United States
Trilce Estrada, University of Delaware, PhD student
   Field(s) of interest: High performance computing
   Country of origin: Mexico
Barbara dos Santos Flores, UFRGS, Quality Assurance Consultant
   Field(s) of interest: Software Quality, Software Engineering
   Country of origin: Brazil
Juliana Freitag Borin, University of Campinas, PostDoctoral Research Fellow
   Field(s) of interest: Computer Networks, Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) and MAN (IEEE 802.16), Medium access control protocols, Traffic modeling and control, Multimedia services, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience, Discrete event simulation
   Current residence: Brazil
   Country of origin: Brazil
Carolina Galleguillos, Universit of California San Diego
Claudia Galvan, Microsoft Corporation
   Current residence: San Jose, CA USA
Heidy Galvez
   Field(s) of interest: E-Commerce
   Current residence: Terrebonne,Quebec,Canada
   Country of origin: Guatemala
Gilda Garreton, Oracle, Principal Engineer
   Field(s) of interest: Java, parallel computing, CAD, computational geometry
   Current residence: Mountain View, CA
   Country of origin: Chile
Natalie Gil, PMP, ITIL, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Critical Infrastructure Engineer / Project Manager
   Field(s) of interest: Information Technology
   Country of origin: Peru
Ivonne Gonzalez, Lead Software Engineer, ivonne.o.gonzalez@jpl.nasa.gov
   Current residence: Pasadena, Ca
   Country of origin: Mexico
Angeliz Gonzalez, UPRM
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Yajaira Gonzalez , UPRM
   Field(s) of interest: Software Engineering, AI, Computational Neuroscience
   Current residence: Puerto Rico
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Jessica Gurley, NMHU, MS Student
   Field(s) of interest: Data Visualiztion, Prgoramming Languages (specifically Java and C)
   Current residence: Las Vegas, NM
Lourdes Herling, Wayne State College, Assistant Professor, loherli1@wsc.edu
   Field(s) of interest: HPC, Computer Science Education, Computational Science
   Current residence: Nebraska
   Country of origin: United States
Valeria Herskovic, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
   Current residence: Santiago, Chile
   Country of origin: Chile
Gabriela Jacques da Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Student
   Field(s) of interest: fault tolerance, distributed systems
   Country of origin: Brazil
Luz Adriana Jaramillo Ospina, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate Student (MSIT/IS), luzajaramillo@gmail.com
   Field(s) of interest: Information Security, IT Risk Management
   Current residence: Mountain View, CA
   Country of origin: Colombia
Alma Juarez Dominguez, University of Waterloo, PhD Candidate
Grecia del Carmen
Lapizco Encinas
   Field(s) of interest: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics
   Country of origin: Mexico
Anamary Leal, Virginia Tech, Ph.D Candidate, leal@vt.eduadditional website
   Field(s) of interest: Human-Computer Interaction, 3D Interaction, Gaming, Information Visualization
Patricia Legaspi, Google
   Current residence: Dublin, CA
Patty Lopez, Intel Corporation, Logic Validation Engineer
   Field(s) of interest: Validation, Image Processing, Human and Computer Vision, CS Education
   Current residence: Colorado
   Country of origin: New Mexico, USA
Adriana Lopez-Alt, New York University, Ph.D. Student
   Field(s) of interest: Cryptography, Complexity, Security
   Current residence: New York, NY
   Country of origin: Colombia
Joana M. F. da Trindade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate Student, additional website
   Field(s) of interest: Data Management, Security
   Country of origin: Brazil
Maria Paula Mariani, Front-end and user interfaces developer, paulamariani@gmail.comadditional website
   Field(s) of interest: Front-end development, usability, women in technology, cognitive computational neuroscience
   Country of origin: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marissa Martinez, GreenFerret, LLC, Managing Partner, additional website
   Field(s) of interest: Product design, usability
   Current residence: Metro Boston, MA, USA
   Country of origin: US (Mexican American)
Laura Mariely Matos Aponte, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
   Field(s) of interest: Artificial Intelligence
Joana Matos Fonseca da Trindade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Research Assistant, trindade@illinois.eduadditional website
   Field(s) of interest: security, databases, fault tolerance, software engineering
   Country of origin: Brazil
Janice Mejia, City Colleges of Chicago
Malena Mesarina, Hewlett Packard
Loren Micheloni, University of Texas at Austin, Student – undergrad
Lizdabel Morales-Tirado, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Assistant Professor, lizdabel@ece.uprm.eduadditional website
   Field(s) of interest: Cognitive radio, cognitive networks
   Current residence: Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Kristi Morton, University of Washington, PhD student
   Field(s) of interest: programming languages, databases
Marcela Christina Musgrove-Chavez, Oregon Health and Science University, Graduate student
   Field(s) of interest: HCI, medical informatics
   Current residence: Portland,OR
Patricia Ordonez Rozo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, PhD Candidate, patti.ordonez@umbc.edu
   Field(s) of interest: Medical Informatics
Laura Pina, UCSD, Graduate Student
   Field(s) of interest: Ubicomp, Embedded Systems, HCI
Barbara Poblete, University of Chile // Yahoo! Research LatAm, Assitant Professor
   Field(s) of interest: Web, Data Mining, IR
   Current residence: Santiago, Chile
   Country of origin: Chile
Blanca Polo, Leeward Community College, Instructor, blanca@hawaii.edu
   Field(s) of interest: Computer programming and networking
   Current residence: Honolulu HI
   Country of origin: Mexico
Marjori Azevedo de Souza Pomarole, UCSD, Student, mpomarol@ucsd.eduadditional website
   Current residence: San Diego
   Country of origin: Brazil
Meenasha Reyes, Georgia Institute of Technology
   Field(s) of interest: Information Technology, Human Computer Interaction
   Current residence: Fairburn, GA
   Country of origin: Dominican Republic
Priscilla Ribeiro, University of Texas Women In Computer Sciences, HP
   Current residence: Austin, TX USA
   Country of origin: Brazil
Johanna Jarita Rivera
Yanira
Rivera
Adelein Rodriguez, IBM, Software Engineer, adeleinr@gmail.com
   Field(s) of interest: Web technologies, machine learning, user experience design, startups
   Country of origin: Cuba
Raquel A. Romano, Google, Inc., Senior Software Engineer
   Field(s) of interest: machine learning, computer vision
   Current residence: San Francisco Bay Area, USA
   Country of origin: Mexico & US
Carla Romero, Computing Research Association, Director of Programs, cromero@cra.org
   Field(s) of interest: Computing education and outreach
   Current residence: Washington, DC
Sonia Liliana Ross, Cisco Systems, Software Engineer
   Current residence: San Jose, California
   Country of origin: Colombia
Cindy Rubio González, University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD Student
   Country of origin: Mexico
Nayda G. Santiago, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Associate Professor, nayda.santiago@ece.uprm.edu
   Field(s) of interest: Computer Performance
   Current residence: Anasco, Puerto Rico
   Country of origin: Puerto Rico
Mara G Silva, Virginia Tech, Graduate Student, additional website
   Current residence: Blacksburg, VA, USA
   Country of origin: Brazil
Jocelyn Simmonds, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria
   Field(s) of interest: Software Testing and Analysis
   Current residence: Santiago, Chile
   Country of origin: Chile
Shava Smallen, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Solorio Thamar, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Assistant Professor
   Current residence: Birmingham, Alabama
   Country of origin: Mexico
Consuelo Esmeralda Valdes, Wellesley College, Research Fellow, cvaldes2328@gmail.com
   Field(s) of interest: HCI, UX, Design, Front-End
   Current residence: Waltham, MA
   Country of origin: Venezuela
Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, Carleton University, PhD student, Teaching/Research Assistant
   Field(s) of interest: Semantic Web
   Country of origin: Mexico
Alexandra Yates, Intel , luna.chia@yahoo.com
   Field(s) of interest: AI, AEI, GFX
   Current residence: Portland, OR
   Country of origin: Colombia
Laura Zavala, Execue, Inc., Research Engineer, zavala.usc@gmail.com
   Field(s) of interest: artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, machine learning, knowledge representation and integration, semantic Web, ontologies, and service oriented computing
   Current residence: Tri-State Region

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