Dana Randall

Dana Randall is an American computer scientist. She is a Regents' professor of computer science and adjunct professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Previously she was executive director of the Georgia Tech Institute of Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) that she co-founded, director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center, and served as the ADVANCE Professor of Computing. Her research areas include combinatorics, computational aspects of statistical mechanics, Monte Carlo stimulation of Markov chains, randomized algorithms and programmable active matter.