Verónica Bolón Canedo

Verónica Bolón-Canedo (born 1984) is a Spanish computer scientist whose research concerns feature selection in machine learning, with applications including medical diagnosis, oil spill detection, and automated educational assessment. She is a professor at the University of A Coruña.

Education and career Bolón-Canedo was born in Carballo in 1984. She studied computer science at the nearby University of A Coruña, earning a bachelor's degree in 2009, a master's degree in 2010, and completing her Ph.D. in 2014.

After postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester in the UK, she returned to the University of A Coruña as an assistant professor. She later became a full professor there, in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies.

Books Bolón-Canedo is the author or editor of books including: Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data (with Noelia Sánchez-Maroño and Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2015) Recent Advances in Ensembles for Feature Selection (with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2018) Microarray Bioinformatics (edited with Amparo Alonso Betanzos, Springer, 2019)

Recognition Bolón-Canedo was elected to the Young Academy of Spain in 2020. She was elected as a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2022.