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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

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 P Arenas, University of Virginia, Graduate Student, yina at virginia dot edu

Country of origin: Colombia
Jennifer Arguello, SHPE, UCSD, Microsoft, Program Manager, jarguello@gmail.com, additional website

Current residence: San Francisco, CA

Country of origin: Costa Rica
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.com, additional 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

Mirkeya Capellan, Sogeti USA, Pace University, Mercedes-Benz, Senior Consultant / Adjucnt 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

Martha Cisneros-Arvizu, Looking for job, marthitacisneros@gmail.com, additional website

Field(s) of interest: Information Management, Information Architecture, Web Development and Desing, and Knowledge Management

Current residence: Houston, TX

Country of origin: Mexico
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

Juliana Freitag Borin, PhD, additional website

Field(s) of interest: Wireless LAN and WAN, medium access control protocols, traffic modeling and control, multimedia services, Quality of Service, simulation.

Current residence: San Jose – CA

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
Yajaira Gonzalez , UPRM

Field(s) of interest: Software Engineering, AI, Computational Neuroscience

Current residence: Puerto Rico

Country of origin: Puerto Rico

Lourdes Herling, Wayne State College, Instructor, loherli1@wsc.edu

Field(s) of interest: Parallel Computing, Computer Architecture, Networking
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, Carnegie Mellon University – Information Networking Institute, Graduate Student (MSIT)

Field(s) of interest: Information Security, Compliance, IT Governance, IT Risks Analysis, Systems Auditing, Information Assurance

Current residence: Pittsburgh, PA

Country of origin: Colombia

Alma Juarez Dominguez, University of Waterloo, PhD Candidate

Grecia Lapizco-Encinas, University of Maryland

Patricia Legaspi, Google

Current residence: Dublin, CA
Patty Lopez, Intel Corporation, Logic Validation Engineer

Field(s) of interest: Software Development, Image Processing
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.com, additional website

Field(s) of interest: Front-end development, usability, women in technology, cognitive computational neuroscience

Country of origin: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cisneros Martha, HP, Support Engineer

Field(s) of interest: Human Computer Interaction, Social Media, Knowledge Management, Web development, Knowledge Databases
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)

Janice Mejia, City Colleges of Chicago

Malena Mesarina, Hewlett Packard

Loren Micheloni, University of Texas at Austin, Student – undergrad

Kristi Morton, University of Washington, PhD student

Field(s) of interest: programming languages, databases

Marcela Christina Musgrove-Chavez, Graduate student

Field(s) of interest: HCI
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
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

Priscilla Ribeiro, University of Texas Women In Computer Sciences, HP

Current residence: Austin, TX USA

Country of origin: Brazil
Johanna Jarita Rivera, CSTA, Arizona chapter, President, Johanna.Jarita.Rivera@gmail.com

Field(s) of interest: Computer Science education
Adelein Rodriguez, IBM, adeleinr@gmail.com, additional website

Field(s) of interest: Web technologies, machine learning, user experience design

Current residence: San Jose, CA

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, University of Toronto, PhD Student

Shava Smallen, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Solorio Thamar, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Assistant Professor

Current residence: Birmingham, Alabama

Country of origin: Mexico
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

updated: 9/29/10