Alejandra Josiowicz is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Internationalization at the Institute of Languages and Literatures of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She is also Prociencia Fellow (2021-2024) at UERJ and Jovem Cientista do Nosso Estado (2023-2025) at FAPERJ. She was a Researcher at the National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET). She was Post-doctoral Fellow at the Digital Humanities Laboratory in the School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. She is a Member of the CENTER FOR CRITICAL RACE + DIGITAL STUDIES and participates of the 2022-2023 cohort of the Latin American Hub (LAC) of the Feminist AI Research network.
Genoveva Vargas-Solar is a principal scientist at CNRS, LIRIS Laboratory, and an IEEE Senior Member. She holds PhDs in Computer Science (Univ. Joseph Fourier) and Literature (Univ. Stendhal), and an HDR from Grenoble. She is a member of the Mexican Academia of Computing and promotes gender equality in science. Her research focuses on data science management systems for just-intime processing. She leads projects on decolonial data, inclusion, and algorithmic fairness. Genoveva coordinates the inter-conference DEI initiative and serves on EDBT, SIGMOD, ADBIS and AMW steering/executive committees. She is an activist in Tierra Común and FeministA+I, advocating inclusive tech. She fosters Latin America–Europe collaboration, especially between France and Mexico.
