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

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

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.
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