# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-m-amato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:27.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-m-amato"
name: "Nancy M. Amato"
slug: "nancy-m-amato"
description: "Nancy Marie Amato is an American computer scientist noted for her research on the algorithmic foundations of motion planning, computational biology, computational geometry and parallel computing. Amato is the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amato is noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing, and is currently a member of the steering committee of CRA-WP, of which she has been a member of the board since 2000."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://parasol.tamu.edu/people/amato/"
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    title: "نانسی ام آماتو"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump