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Andréa W. Richa

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Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems,[1] network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.[2]

Education and career

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Richa studied computer science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1989 and a master's degree in 1992. She went to Carnegie Mellon University for advanced graduate study in the program in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, earning a second master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1998.[2] Her dissertation, On Distributed Network Resource Allocation, was supervised by Bruce Maggs.[2][3]

She joined Arizona State University as an assistant professor in 1998, earned tenure there as an associate professor in 2004, and was promoted to full professor in 2016.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Tortorich, Gabby (27 April 2017), "ASU researchers lay foundation for programmable materials", The State Press
  2. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), November 2018, retrieved 2021-10-19
  3. ^ Andréa W. Richa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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