Distinguished ACM Speaker:
Nancy Amato
Based in TX, USA
Nancy M. Amato is a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University. She received B.S. and A.B. degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics, respectively, from Stanford University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. She was an AT&T Bell Laboratories PhD Scholar, she is a recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, she serves on review panels for NIH and NSF, and she regularly serves on conference organizing and program committees.
She is a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and and of the Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC). She co-directs the CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (known as the Distributed Mentor Program, or DMP, from 1994-2008) and the CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series. Her main areas of research focus are motion planning, computational biology and geometry, and high-performance computing. Current projects include the development of a new technique for approximating protein folding pathways and energy landscapes, a new approach for modeling and simulating group behaviors, and STAPL, a parallel C++ library enabling the development of efficient, portable parallel programs.
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