Nancy M. Amato
Nancy Amato | |
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| Born | Nancy Marie Amato |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD) |
| 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 |
| Doctoral students | Lydia Tapia |
| 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. Amato is the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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.