Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in

distributed computing Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. The components of a distributed system commu ...

network routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched telephone netw ...

and replication, and

bio-inspired computing Bio-inspired computing, short for biologically inspired computing, is a field of study which seeks to solve computer science problems using models of biology. It relates to connectionism, social behavior, and emergence. Within computer science, b ...

. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

Education and career

Richa studied computer science at the

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (, UFRJ) is a public university, public research university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and r ...

, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1989 and a master's degree in 1992. She went to

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

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. Her dissertation, ''On Distributed Network Resource Allocation'', was supervised by

Bruce Maggs Bruce MacDowell Maggs is an American computer scientist and professor at Duke University whose research interests include computer networks, distributed systems, and computer security. He was a founding employee and served as vice president for Res ...

. 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.

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