BIO

Professor Bejarano earned her doctoral degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where she also pursued a Master's in Computer Science thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship. She has lectured at top Peruvian universities and had a postdoctoral stay at Baylor University, Texas. Her research has focused on machine learning for sequential data, such as sign language processing and forecasting in smart city problems. She has been awarded the AI2050 Early Career Fellowship from Schmidt Futures to explore iconicity in sign language and gestures. She has experience in the financial and insurance industries and has served as an Artificial Intelligence expert for the Peruvian Government and a US Public Assembly. Bejarano is a proud member of the LatinxInAI community.