Dana Randall

Dana Randall is an American computer scientist and a Regents professor of computer science and adjunct professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. She was executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute of Data Engineering and Science, which she co-founded, and director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center, and she served as the ADVANCE Professor of Computing. Her research areas include combinatorics, computational aspects of statistical mechanics, Monte Carlo simulation of Markov chains, randomized algorithms and programmable active matter. She studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Association for Computing Machinery. Her birthplace is given as Queens, New York City.