Nancy M. Amato

Nancy Amato
Born
Nancy Marie Amato

NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
University of California, Berkeley (MS)
Stanford University (BS)
Known forMotion planning
Computational biology
Computational geometry
Parallel computing
Animation
Distributed computing
Parallel algorithms
Performance modeling and optimization
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2010)
AAAI Fellow (2018)
ACM Fellow (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsTexas A&M University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisReversing trains : a turn of the century sorting problem (1988)
Doctoral advisorFranco P. Preparata
Websitecs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/namato
engineering.tamu.edu/cse/profiles/namato.html

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]

  1. ^ Nancy M. Amato publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Nancy M. Amato". cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/namato. Retrieved 2021-12-12.