People | Parasol Lab
Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

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

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

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

Ananya Yammanuru

PhD Student

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

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

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

Undergraduate and High School Students

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

Alumni - PhD

Diane Uwacu

PhD, 2023
Texas A&M
Advisor: Nancy M. Amato
First Position: Asst Professor, Mount Holyoke College

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.

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

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

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

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

Faculty and Postdocs  PhD Students  Masters Students  Undergraduate and High School Students  Postdoc Alumni  PhD Alumni  Masters Alumni  Undergraduate and High School Alumni 

Additional Alumni