Women in Artificial intelligence (AI)

Dear Colleagues,

Gender equality is one of the objectives of the ONU Agenda 2030. In the areas denominated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), the bias of gender is particularly exaggerated. The number of male researchers working in STEM is much larger than for women, and this is a constant in countries all over the world, from Europe to USA. This imbalance affects the visibility of the work done by women, which is difficult to find among a large number of male names. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, this male bias influences the way intelligent systems are developed, designed, and conceived. This may have a large impact on the future world, where digital transformation seems to be connected to the new Artificial Intelligence developments.

This Special Issue aims to gather research work done by women in a single journal issue in order to enhance the visibility. This may also contribute to greater dissemination of the exceptional research being done by female scientists.

Because of the relevance of Artificial Intelligence nowadays, this Special Issue is focused on research conducted in the field of Artificial Intelligence, which is a STEM discipline that has increased in interest and applicability in recent years. Thus, this Special Issue will provide an attractive compendium of the AI research led by women over a wide perspective, with focus on real social or industrial applications to health, mobility, or any other topic relevant for digital society development, and new theoretical contributions to all branches of the AI field, from reasoning to image processing, welcoming voice, natural language processing, and social AI, among others.

The two Guest Editors are women involved in gender equality initiatives in Catalonia (Spain). Dr. Karina Gibert is President of the working group donesIAcat (women in AI in Catalonia) in the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (a chapter of the EurAI association). Dr. Aida Valls is Chair of donesIAcat in the region of Tarragona (south Catalonia). Both have a long trajectory of research in AI and working to bridge the gender gap in Artificial Intelligence as well as Informatics Engineering more generally. Hence, we are pleased to serve as Guest Editors of this Special Issue focused on the AI field. The goal is to highlight the women working on cutting edge topics in AI, both from a theoretical and applied point of view.

We encourage women scientists leading research on AI to submit an original manuscript to this Special Issue. Submissions must have a woman as first author to be considered for inclusion.

Dr. Aida Valls
Prof. Dr. Karina Gibert
Guest Editors

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