Keynote 1 Speaker：

Nancy M. Amato

Head, Department of Computer Science, 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Biography:

    Nancy M. Amato is Head of the Computer Science Department and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before returning to her alma mater in 2019, she was Unocal Professor and Regents Professor at Texas A&M University and Senior Director of Engineering Honors Programs. 

    She is known for algorithmic contributions to robotics task and motion planning, computational biology and geometry, and parallel and distributed computing. Amato currently serves as the Chair of the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Board of Directors and is an elected member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Administrative Committee. She has been very involved in activities dedicated to broadening participation in computing at the international, national and local level. Amato received the 2019 IEEE RAS Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation, the inaugural NCWIT Harrold/Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award in 2014, and the 2014 CRA Haberman Award for her contributions to increasing diversity in computing. She is a Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.