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香港六合彩中特网 alumna聽聽has won a prestigious IET鈥檚 Young Woman Engineer of the Year award.

31 year old Larissa, who is Head of Data Science at Founders4School, was presented with the Women鈥檚 Engineering Society (WES) prize at the聽聽ceremony in central London last night.

On winning, Larissa said: 鈥淚 am very proud and honoured to have received the award. It is a great motivation for me to continue to support women in Computing and Technology, and to ensure the success of current and past women in Computing is recognised.鈥�

, President of the聽, added: 鈥淭he Women's Engineering Society is delighted to support the YWE Award again this year in partnership with the IET, to highlight young female engineers not only achieving amazing success but also challenging young people鈥檚 perceptions of engineering careers. Our winner this year 鈥� Larissa 鈥� is a brilliant supporter of women entering and importantly championing engineering for years to come as an ambassador and an advocate of the profession.鈥�

The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards celebrate women working in modern engineering. Their campaign聽Portrait of an Engineer聽earlier this year highlights the need to change the perception that engineering is predominantly a career for men by banishing outdated engineering stereotypes of hard hats and greasy pipes.

As well as highlighting female engineering talent, the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards seek to find female role models who can help address the UK science and engineering skills crisis by promoting engineering careers to more girls and women. Just over one in ten (11%) of the UK engineering and technical workforce is female (source: 2017 IET Skills Survey).

Larissa agreed that it is harder to be what you cannot see: 鈥淲hen studying my BSc in Computer Science, I learned about all the men in tech but I had never heard of聽, the first computer programmer or聽, the inventor of frequency hopping technologies. Women can often be put off technical degrees, not because they do not have the cognitive ability but because there are so few role models. We must make them visible to inspire the generations to come - both girls and boys alike.鈥�

In her work to showcase the incredible achievements of women in technology, Larissa has founded a crowd-sourced website called聽. Anyone can contribute to this, to increase the awareness of the amazing work of women in computing.

Larissa is an honorary research associate at 香港六合彩中特网, where she completed her PhD in Computer Science in 2015, in collaboration with Imperial College Business School. 鈥溝愀哿�合彩中特网 sets a great example to women in STEM; it is one of the most respectful institutions in the world, and the first in England to admit women on equal terms with men. I am a very proud 香港六合彩中特网 alumna.鈥�

The IET has released a video documenting Larissa's story, which you can watch聽.