Faculty and Postdocs
Nancy Amato
Professor
Co-Director Parasol Lab
Lawrence Rauchwerger
Professor
Co-Director Parasol Lab
Marco Morales
Teaching Associate Professor
Pedro Cisneros-Velarde
Postdoctoral Scholar and Fellow
PhD Students
Felipe Felix Arias
PhD Student
Nathanael Assefa
PhD Student
Amnon Attali
PhD Student
Eunice Chan
PhD Student
Francisco Coral
PhD Student
Texas A&M
Frithjof Gressmann
PhD Student
Simon Kato
PhD Student
Homa Khosravian
PhD Student
Hannah Lee
PhD Student
Isaac Love
PhD Student
Marta Markowicz
PhD Student
Courtney McBeth
PhD Student
James Motes
PhD Student
Victor Murta
PhD Student
Isaac Ngui
PhD Student
Irving Solis
PhD Student
Texas A&M
Diane Uwacu
PhD Student
Texas A&M
Ananya Yammanuru
PhD Student
Master's Students
Emmanuel Gallegos
Master's Student
Scott Lee
Master's Student
Andrew Sungho Park
Master's Student
Mike Qin
Master's Student
Christopher Whamond
Master's Student
Ana Elissa Cabrera
iCAN Research Capstone
Undergraduate and High School Students
Matthew Rizen
University of Southern California
Aline Becerra
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Alumni - PhD
Adam Fidel
PhD, 2021
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger & Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Quantlab
Current Position: Intel
Read Sandström
PhD, 2020
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: iRobot
Mukulika Ghosh
PhD, 2019
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Postdoc, Maryland Robotics
Current Position: Asst Professor, Missouri State University
Harshvardhan
PhD, 2018
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger & Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Google
Current Position: Oracle
Jory Denny
PhD, 2016
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Assoc Professor, University of Richmond & Waymo
Chinwe Ekenna
PhD, 2016
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Asst Professor, University at Albany
Troy McMahan
PhD, 2016
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Postdoc, Rutgers University
Ioannis Papadopoulos
PhD, 2016
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
Current Position: AMD Research
Hsin-Yi (Cindy) Yeh
PhD, 2016
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Rapid Robotics
Olga Pearce
PhD, 2014
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: LLNL
Sam Ade Jacobs
PhD, 2014
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: LLNL
Current Position: Microsoft
Ali Agha
PhD, 2014
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato & Suman Chakravorty
Current Position: JPL
Roger Pearce
PhD, 2013
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: LLNL
Sam Rodriguez
PhD, 2012
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Assoc Prof, Texas Wesleyan University
Timmie Smith
PhD, 2012
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
Current Position: Intel Corporation
Nathan Thomas
PhD, 2012
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
Current Position: SynchroGrid
Gabriel Tanase
PhD, 2010
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger & Nancy M. Amato
First Position: IBM TJ Watson
Current Position: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Shawna Thomas
PhD, 2010
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Instr Asst Prof, Texas A&M University
Lydia Tapia
PhD, 2009
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Prof & Chair, University of New Mexico
Alin Jula
PhD, 2008
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
Current Position: Google
Marco Morales
PhD, 2007
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Teaching Assoc Prof, University of Illinois
Xinyu Tang
PhD, 2007
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Google
Jyh-Ming Lien
PhD, 2006
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Assoc Prof, GMU & iRobot
Silvius Rus
PhD, 2006
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
First Position: Google
Hao Yu
PhD, 2004
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
Current Position: IBM Watson Research Center
Jinsuck Kim
PhD, 2004
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Arcadia Entertainment
Current Position: Together Labs (parent company of IMVU)
Guang Song
PhD, 2003
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Assoc Prof, Iowa State
O. Burchan Bayazit
PhD, 2003
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Asst Prof, WUSTL
Current Position: Wells Fargo
Wookho Son
PhD, 2001
Texas A&M
Advisor: Jeff Trinkle & Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Inst (ETRI), Koreo
Lucia K. Dale
PhD, 2000
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Current Position: Prof Emeritus, Sewanee: The University of the South
Daniel Vallejo
PhD, 2000
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Faculty, Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico
Greg Schmidt
PhD, 2000
Texas A&M
Advisor: Donald House & Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Naval Research Lab
Steven Wilmarth
PhD, 1999
Math, Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato and Peter Stiller
First Position: Metron, Inc.
Alumni - Master's
Alireza Majidi
MS, 2020
Texas A&M
Advisor: Lawrence Rauchwerger
First Position: Software Engineer at Neurala
Jack Perdue
MS, 1998
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy Amato
First Position: Senior Systems Administrator at Texas A&M University Supercomputing Facility.
Wesley Ecoiffier
iCAN Research Capstone, Summer 2021
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Azhar Karypbayeva
iCAN Research Capstone, Summer 2021
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: MCS Student, UIUC
Alumni - Undergraduate and High School
Nikhil Agarwal
BS, 2021
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Lucas Flygare
University of Wisconsin
Summer 2019
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Angelos Guan
BS, 2021
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Tavie Kittredge
Davidson College
CRA-WP DREU Program, Summer 2022
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Priscilla Saarah
Dillard University
CRA-WP DREU Program, Summer 2021
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Jose Carrillo
Texas A&M
CRA-WP DREU Program, Summer 2020
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Ananya Yammanuru
BS, 2022
University of Illinois
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Everett Yang
BS, 2020
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
Aryav Desai
High School Intern, Summer 2020
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato