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Dana Randall

Professor of Computer Science
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology

randall@cc.gatech.edu


    EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

    A.B. Mathematics, 1988, Harvard University

    Ph.D. Computer Science, 1994, University of California, Berkeley

    CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST:

    Theoretical Computer Science, Randomized Algorithms, Combinatorics, Stochastic Processes, Simulations of Physical Systems.

    SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS:

    ``Markov Chains for Planar Lattice Structures'' (with M. Luby and A. Sinclair), SIAM Journal on Computing, 31: 167--192 (2001).

    ``Markov Chain Decomposition for Convergence Rate Analysis'' (with N. Madras), Annals of Applied Probability, 12: 581--606 (2002).

    ``Analyzing Glauber Dynamics by Comparison of Markov Chains'' (with P. Tetali), Journal of Mathematical Physics, 41: 1598--1615 (2000).

    ``Self-Testing Algorithms for Self-Avoiding Walks'' (with A. Sinclair), Journal of Mathematical Physics, 41: 1570--1584 (2000).

    "Approximating the Number of Monomer-Dimer Coverings of a Lattice" (with C. Kenyon and A. Sinclair), Journal of Statistical Physics, 83: 637-659 (1996).

    CONFERENCE PAPERS:

    ``Dynamic TCP Acknowledgement and Other Stories About e/(1-e)'' (with A. Karlin and C. Kenyon), 31st ACM Symposium on Theoretical Computer Science (STOC), 2001.

    ``Sampling Adsorbing Staircase Walks Using a New Markov Chain Decomposition Method'' (with R. Martin), 41st IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2000.

    ``Random Three-dimensional Tilings of Aztec Octahedra and Tetrahedra: An Extension of Domino Tilings'' (with G. Yngve), 11th ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2000.

    ``Sampling Spin Configurations of an Ising System'' (with D. Wilson), 10th ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 1999.

    "Factoring Graphs to Bound Mixing Rates" (with N. Madras), 37th Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 1996.

    AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

    2012 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
    2008 National Associate of the National Academies
    2003 Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, College of Computing
    2003 IBM Faculty Partnership Award
    2001-2003 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
    1997-2001 NSF Career Award
    2000 and 2015 William A. ``Gus'' Baird Faculty Teaching Award, College of Computing
    1993-1994 Univ. of California presidential dissertation year fellowship
    1989-1993 AT&T Ph.D. Scholarship