Nancy Amato | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nancy Marie Amato |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD) University of California, Berkeley (MS) Stanford University (BS) |
| Known for | Motion planning Computational biology Computational geometry Parallel computing Animation Distributed computing Parallel algorithms Performance modeling and optimization |
| Awards | IEEE Fellow (2010) AAAI Fellow (2018) ACM Fellow (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Texas A&M University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | Reversing trains : a turn of the century sorting problem (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Franco P. Preparata |
| Website | cs engineering |
Nancy Marie Amato is an American computer scientist noted for her research on the algorithmic foundations of motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry and parallel computing.[1] Amato is the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] Amato is noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing, and is currently a member of the steering committee of CRA-WP (formerly known as CRA-W), of which she has been a member of the board since 2000.[citation needed]
- ^ Nancy M. Amato publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ "Nancy M. Amato". cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/namato. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
