María García de la Banda
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María José García de la Banda García is a Spanish computer scientist who works at Monash University in Australia as a professor of information technology. Her research involves constraint logic programming, programming language design and implementation, program transformation, and applications to bioinformatics.[1]
García de la Banda is the daughter of a scientist, and began studying computer science because at the time it was the only engineering discipline with a high proportion of female students.[2] She earned an engineering informatics degree from the Technical University of Madrid in 1992, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1994.[1] Her dissertation, Parallelism in Dynamically Scheduled Constraint Logic Programming, was supervised by Manuel de Hermenegildo Salinas;[3][4] it won the best dissertation award of the university.[1]
