Above and Beyond
ACM-W scholarships provide support for women undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related programs to attend computing research conferences.
The Above and Beyond Project aims to follow up on the historical scholarship data since its inception in 2006 to do a longitudinal assessment of the impact of the scholarship on the educational trajectory and career path of our scholars.
Featured Recipients
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ACM-W Above and Beyond: Dr. Joslenne Peña’s Journey
By Jessica Yauney This month, we are catching up with Dr Joslenne Peña, who attended the CHI 2016 on an ACM-W scholarship. Dr Peña is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Macalester College, working at the intersection of computing education and human-computer interaction. In her research, she explores the use of informal learning
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ACM-W Above and Beyond: Mansi Agarwal’s Journey
By Jessica Yauney As part of the ACM-W Above and Beyond Project, we are excited to feature Mansi Agarwal, who works at the intersection of computer vision, multimodal AI, and robotics. At Amazon, she led the end-to-end development and calibration of a large-scale multi-sensor AI system deployed across hundreds of stations. She’s deeply passionate about embodied
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ACM-W Above and Beyond: Dr Raazia Sosan’s Journey
By Jessica Yauney Dr Raazia Sosan’s expertise spans computer graphics, visualization, high-performance computing, and remote sensing. She has been the focal person for multiple national research collaborations with SUPARCO and has led GPU-accelerated rendering and satellite image processing projects. She has published in international journals, co-authored a Springer Nature book (2025), and delivered numerous invited