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.

★ Scholarship Winner Highlight

Julita Inca Chiroque, 2012 Recipient

Peru · Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

Julita Inca Chiroque has a high profile in High-Performance Computing and participated in the trailer of ISC 2023, the HPC Conference, along with the most experienced HPC authorities around the world.

“I was able to be a leader in my community, and in my role as an ambassador, for the part of the world from where I come.”

Read her story ➜

Featured Recipients

  • Above and Beyond Scholarship – Dilrukshi Gamage, PhD

    Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ​​ICCE (International Conference on Computers in Education) 2014 Nara, Japan Country of Origin: Sri Lanka Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: Sri Lanka Dr Dilrukshi Gamage is a postdoctoral fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) working on a multidisciplinary infodemic project funded by the Japan Science […]

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  • Above and Beyond Scholarship – Lauren Cairco Dukes, PhD

    Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ACM symposium on virtual reality software and technology, 2007 Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: USA Lauren Cairco Dukes was a software engineer at Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator until the entire Area 120 organization was cut as a part of Google’s layoffs in […]

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  • Above and Beyond Scholarship – Nova Ahmed, PhD

    Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ACM/IFP/Usenix Middleware 2008 Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: USA Dr Nova Ahmed is a computer scientist living in Bangladesh. She has finished her PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and came back to Bangladesh to make changes. She used her experiences working […]

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