Dana Randall
        Co-Executive Director, Institute for Data Engineering and Science
        ADVANCE Professor of Computing
        Adjunct Professor, School of Mathematics
        Georgia Institute of Technology

        Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CS, 1994
        A.B., Harvard University, Mathematics, 1988


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    Fall 2015:
    • Currently teaching Honors Proofs/Discrete Math

    Research interests:
    • Randomized algorithms
    • Markov chain Monte Carlo
    • Computational problems from statistical physics
    • Combinatorics

    Things currently keeping me (very) busy:
    • Co-Executive Director of the newly launched Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS).
    • Working with the ADVANCE team as the ADVANCE Professor of Computing to promote the status of women on the faculty at Georgia Tech.

    Current and former PhD students:
    • Russell Martin, Ph.D. 2001, University of Liverpool.
    • Nayantara Bhatnagar, Ph.D. 2007, University of Delaware.
    • Sam Greenberg, Ph.D. 2008, Department of Defense.
    • Amanda Pascoe Streib, Ph.D. 2012, Center for Computing Sciences.
    • Sarah Miracle, Ph.D. 2015, University of St. Thomas.
    • Prateek Bhakta., Ph.D. 2016, University of Richmond.
    • Sarah Cannon
    • Matthew Fahrbach

    The 2009 AMS Arnold Ross Lecture:
      October 29, 2009 at the Augusta National Science Center
      (An article on the lecture that appeared in Verge Magazine)

    Useful links:
    • Theory group at Georgia Tech
    • Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
    • Algorithms and Randomness Center

    Contact information:
    2140 Klaus Advanced Computing Building
    College of Computing
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA 30332-0765
    (404)-894-3156 (cs. dept. phone)
    (404)-894-6300 (fax)
    randall at cc dot gatech dot edu