Genoveva Vargas-Solar is a senior scientist at the French Council of Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the DataBase group of the Laboratory on Informatics on Image and Information Systems (LIRIS). She is a regular member of the Mexican Academia of Computing (AMEXCOMP). She is a member of the EDBT Endowment, of the BDA (Communauté Francophone en Gestion de données : Principes, Technologies et Applications) and the ADBIS steering committees, and of the executive board of SIGMOD.
Genoveva Vargas-Solar is a gender equity officer of the Gender Equity Commission at the LIRIS lab and an Equity and Diversity contact in the Gender Equity Office at U. Claude Bernard Lyon 1 on behalf of the LIRIS lab. She coordinates the Interconference Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative gathering the main database conferences. She promotes gender equity, diversity, and inclusion actions (e.g., W-Lead@STEM). She coordinates the DEI database interconference initiative, and she works as the EDBT Endowment (a major European conference in databases) DEI liaison. Since 2020, she has co-organised the W-STEM forum of the conference AICCSA (2020, 2021- 2026). She co-organises the workshop Data Science for Equality, inclusion, and Well-being Challenges (DS4EIW) in conjunction with the conference IEEE Big Data. She is a member of the Tierra Común activist group and leads the projects SINFONIA and FRIENDLY on decolonial perspectives of DEI-aware data analytics. She participated in the European project Gender STI as part of the CNRS partner group. She participates in the advisory board of the European Network SPIDER (EU LAC Digital Partnership).
Until October 2020, she was a member of the Heterogeneous and Adaptive Distributed Data Management Systems (HADAS) of the Informatics Laboratory of Grenoble (LIG). From 2008-2020, she was deputy director of the French-Mexican Laboratory of Informatics and Automatic Control (LAFMIA). She was president of the Mexican Society of Computer Science from 2007-2009.
She obtained her “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” in 2014 from the University of Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), her PhD in Computer Science in 2000 at the University Joseph Fourier (UJF), and her PhD in Literature in 2015 at the University Stendhal. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Computer Science in 1997 at University Joseph Fourier, her Master’s Degree in Compared Literature in 1998 at University Stendhal, and her Computer Systems Engineering degree with a minor in Literature at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (UDLAP).
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