Dr. Amato is a professor at Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. Her research interests include motion planning, computational biology, robotics, computational geometry, animation, EDI, VR, parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, performance modeling and optimization.
Dr. Amato along with Dr. Rauchwerger is the Co-Director of the Parsol Lab at Texas A&M which, among many things, oversees the development of the Standard Template Adaptive Parallel Library. My research this summer involves incorporating external linear algebra libraries in a specialized manner into STAPL.
Dr. Rauchwerger is also a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He, like Dr. Amato, received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. His research interests are compilers for parallel and distributed computing, parallel and distributed C++ libraries, adaptive runtime optimizations, and architectures for parallel computing.
Antal is the first person on my list to bug when I have questions. He is extremely helpful and is always willing to clarify and explain concepts and debug problems. Originally from Columbia, he is currently a Ph.D student at Texas A&M University through the help of the Fulbright Program. He received a masters from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali.