The 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2017
9. Hannah Dee, senior lecturer at Aberystwyth University and founder BCS Women Lovelace Colloquium
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ComputerWeekly.com
Hannah Dee set up the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, the UK’s main conference for female undergraduates, which she has run for the last seven years. She has a degree in cognitive science, a masters in philosophy and a doctorate in computing, all from the University of Leeds.
Her research areas are computer vision for the analysis of human behaviour, the detection of shadows and reasoning about shadows, and student attitudes to the study of computer science. She has held post-doctoral positions in Grenoble (France), Leeds and Kingston upon Thames.
She is a women in computing activist, committee member of BCSWomen, the chartered institute for IT’s group for women and deputy chair of BCS Mid Wales.