From the Anita Borg Institute:

PALO ALTO, CA, August 5, 2014 — The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organization focused on advancing women in computing, today announced the winners of the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration ABIE Awards. Each year, the Grace Hoper Celebration ABIE Awards give the technology community the opportunity to honor female leaders in the categories of technical leadership, social impact, international change agent, innovative teaching practices, and faculty member emerging leadership.

The Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award recognizes a junior faculty member for high-quality research and significant positive impact on diversity. Thamar Solorio is Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Solorio’s research focuses on authorship analysis, child language assessment from narratives, mixed-language processing in social media, and information extraction from clinical records and patient generated data.

ABI will celebrate the ABIE Award winners at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, to be held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona on October 8-10.