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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This month’s scholar highlighted as part of the ACM-W Above and Beyond Project is Aishwarya Naresh Reganti, who has inspired her students to express their appreciation in a remarkable way: by organising a donation in Aishwarya’s honour, inspired by the support she once received through the ACM-W scholarship. We catch up with her below as […]

As part of the ACM-W Above and Beyond Project, we are excited to feature Shin Hwei Tan, who is the recipient of the 2025 ACM-W Rising Star Award.  This feature is particularly special: we catch up with Dr Tan as we celebrate her remarkable journey—from an ACM-W scholarship recipient to an award-winning researcher and leader in […]