{"id":610,"date":"2020-09-27T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinasincomputing.org\/?p=610"},"modified":"2020-09-29T05:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:48:13","slug":"cecilia-aragon-earns-the-presidential-early-career-award-pecase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinasincomputing.org\/es\/2020\/09\/27\/cecilia-aragon-earns-the-presidential-early-career-award-pecase\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Aragon earns the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

LiC Co-founder Cecilia Arag\u00f3n is an award-winning author, airshow pilot, and the first Latina full professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle in its 100-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)<\/a>, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers, for her work in collaborative data-intensive science. She’s published over 130 peer-reviewed publications, and over 140 other publications in the areas of data science, visual analytics, machine learning, theoretical computer science, HCI, CSCW, and astrophysics. She won a Fulbright Fellowship in 2017-2018.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, she published the book Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring. <\/em>Her second book, the memoir FLYING FREE: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team<\/em>, was released in September 2020. Her next book, Human Centered Data Science: An Introduction<\/em>, will be published in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 23rd, 2020 in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Cecilia was featured in the Today<\/em> Show. See the clip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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