CRA-W Co-Chairs:

• Lori A. Clarke - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
  

• Lori Pollock - Co-Chair
  
  Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
  

CRA-W Members and Projects:

• Nancy Amato - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
  
• Cecilia R. Aragon - Communications
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
• Carla Brodley
  
  Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
  
• Tracy Camp - Distributed Mentoring Project (DMP)
  Colorado School of Mines
  
• Sheila Castañeda - Career Mentoring Workshops, - Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)
  
  Computer Science Department, Clarke College
  
• Joanne Cohoon
  University of Virginia
  
• Dilma Da Silva
  
• Carla Ellis
  
  Computer Science Department, Duke University
  
• Faith Ellen - Canadian Distributed Mentoring Project (CDMP)
  
  University of Toronto
  
• Kathleen Fisher
  
  AT&T Labs Research
  
• Joan Francioni
  Department of Computer Science, Winona State University
  
• Maria Gini - Distributed Mentor Project (DMP)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
  
• Susanne E. Hambrusch
  
  Purdue University
  
• Mary Jean Harrold
  
  College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Mary Jane Irwin - Steering Committee member, Awards and Nominations, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP), Governments Affairs member
  
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University
  
• Susan Landau - ResearcHers, Booklist
  
  Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
  
• Tessa Lau
  Staff member at IBM's Almaden Research Center
  
• Margaret Martonosi - Editor of the Expanding the Pipeline Column
  
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  
• Renée J. Miller - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  
• Joann Ordille - Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)
  
  Avaya Labs
  
• Mary Lou Soffa - Affilites DMP Program, Grad Cohort Program, Cohort of Associate Professors Project (CAPP)
  
  Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
  
• Telle Whitney - Liaison with the Institute for Women in Technology
  
  Institute for Women in Technology
  

CRA-W Emerita Members:
Emerita status is bestowed upon retired members who made major contributions to CRA-W during their membership.

• Anne Condon
  
  University of British Columbia
• Fran Berman
  San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD
• Leah Jamieson
  
  Purdue University
• Marie Klawe
  
  Harvey Mudd College
  
• Nancy G. Leveson
  MIT
  

CRA-W Staff:

• Carla Romero - Director of Programs
  
  Computing Research Association
  
• Sarah Poon - Web Designer
• Aimée Vargas - CRA-W Webmaster
  

Nancy Amato: Distributed Mentoring Project
Department of Computer Science
Texas A&M University

Nancy M. Amato is a professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. She received B.S. and A.B. degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics, respectively, from Stanford University in 1986, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and 1995, respectively. She was an AT&T Bell Laboratories PhD Scholar and she was a recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

She has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and currently is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. She sits on review panels for NIH and NSF, and she regularly serves on conference organizing and program committees. She is a member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and she co-directs the CRA-W's Distributed Mentor Program. Her main areas of research focus are motion planning, high-performance computing, and computational biology and geometry. Current projects include the development of a new technique for approximating protein folding pathways and energy landscapes, and STAPL, a parallel C++ library enabling the development of efficient, portable parallel programs.