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Gender Parity / Women in Science

“Les étoiles sont éclairées pour que chacun puisse un jour retrouver la sienne.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The rapid advancement of computer science over the past decades is the result of groundbreaking contributions by researchers, both men and women, whose work has shaped our modern world. Among them, many women have had a significant impact. Ada Lovelace, often regarded as the world’s first programmer, envisioned the potential of computing long before modern computers existed and laid the foundations for algorithmic thinking. Grace Hopper designed the first compiler in 1951 and the Cobol language in 1959. These remarkable scientists, among many others, demonstrate the essential role women have played in the advancement of knowledge, and are the stars that continue to inspire future generations, illuminating research and academia.

As part of the DisCoTec 2025 conference, we are organizing a “Women in Science” session to highlight the careers of women scientists. The aim is to share researchers testimonies and experience as a women in computer science or a colleague and collaborator of women in science while inspiring young female researchers to pursue an academic career.

Format

This event will be organized in the form of a panel with a short introductory speech by each of the panelists, followed by an open discussion.

Date & place

Women in Science session will take place on the 18th of June 2025. Precise time and location will be announced soon.

Speakers

Hélène Coullon (IMT Atlantique, France)

Bio: Hélène Coullon is an associate professor at IMT Atlantique, France. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Orléans (France). Her research topics are large-scale distributed and geo-distributed systems, in particular their deployment and dynamic reconfiguration. She combines expertise from different fields including Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), formal methods and languages, parallelism, and domain specific languages.

Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Bio: Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan is an assistant professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the Software Engineering Research Group at TU Delft. She received her PhD from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, followed by postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her research focuses on formal methods, model checking, software testing, and debugging of concurrent programs and distributed systems. She is a recipient of the academic research awards and grants from Amazon Research and Stellar Development Foundation.

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Organizers

Dr. Imen Sayar (imen.sayar@inria.fr)
Dr. Manel Barkallah (manel.barkallah@unamur.be)