Lydia Tapia
Lydia Tapia
Associate Professor
University of New Mexico
Lydia Tapia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and her B.S. in Computer Science from Tulane University. Her research contributions are focused on the development of computationally efficient algorithms for the simulation and analysis of high-dimensional motions for robots and molecules. Specifically, she explores problems in computational structural biology, motion under stochastic uncertainty, and reinforcement learning. Based on this work, she has been awarded two patents, one on a novel unmanned aerial vehicle design and another on a method to design allergen treatments. Lydia is the recipient of the 2016 Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award from AnitaB.org, a 2016 NSF CAREER Award for her work on simulating molecular assembly, and the 2017 CRA-W Borg Early Career Award.