Dana Randall

Dana Randall
Born Queens, New York City
Fields Theoretical computer science
Institutions Georgia Tech
Notable awards Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Outstanding Service Award, Georgia Tech [1]
Notes
Sister, Lisa Randall

Dana Randall is a professor of theoretical computer science at Georgia Tech, where she is the Director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center and the ADVANCE Professor of Computing.

Background

Randall was born in Queens in New York City. She graduated from New York's Stuyvesant High School in 1984.[2] Her sister is theoretical physicist Lisa Randall.

Research

Her primary research interest is analyzing algorithms for counting problems (e.g. counting matchings in a graph) using Markov chains. One of her important contributions to this area is a decomposition theorem for analyzing Markov chains.

Accolades

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

She delivered her Arnold Ross Lecture on October 29, 2009, an honor previously conferred on Barry Mazur, Elwyn Berlekamp, Ken Ribet, Manjul Bhargava, David Kelly and Paul Sally.[4]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Dana Randall wins Institute outstanding service award". Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  2. ↑ "Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1983". Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  3. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-1.
  4. ↑ "AMS Ross Lectures".

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