Andrea Werneck Richa

Professor and Barret Honors Faculty
Computer Science and Engineering

School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision systems Engineering
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Arizona State University
Box 878809
Tempe, AZ 85287-8809, U.S.A.
phone 480-965-7555 (voice) 480-965-2751 (fax)
E-mail: initial first name + last name at asu dot edu

Self-organizing Particle Systems Lab, director

Affiliated with

Center for Bio-computing, Security and Society, Biodesign Institute

Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming, Global Security Initiative

The Biomimicry Center at ASU

Office Hours:

Curriculum Vitae (update in progress; last partial update 11/18)

Publications

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , 2011-2017

Supervised Students

Current and Recent Research Projects

  • A Distributed and Stochastic Algorithmic Framework for Active Matter, funded by NSF-CCF Algorithms-in-the-field (AiTF) awards, 2016-2018 and 2018-2021, PIs: Andrea Richa. (ASU), Dana Randall an Daniel Goldman (Georgia Tech); see also press/publications.

  • Algorithmic Foundations of Self-organizing Particle Systems, funded by NSF CCF-Algorithmic Foundations and NSF EAGER awards, 2013-2017, PI: Andrea Richa; see also press/publications.

  • Adversarial Models for Wireless Communication, funded by NSF Algorithmic Foundations, 2011-2014, PI: Andrea Richa.

  • US-Brazil Collaboration Project: CODPON, A DTN\data mule network focused on Amazon riverine population with e-health applications

  • Underwater Optical Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks

    Other Projects, Awards, and Grants

    Recent Keynote\Plenary Talks

    Algorithmic Foundations of Programmable Matter , Keynote Speaker LATIN'18 (13th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium). Earlier versions of this talk appeared at BDA'14, the Biomimicry Center at ASU Launch event, 2015, etc.

    Adversarial Models for Wireless Communication , Keynote Speaker SIROCCO'13 (20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Complexity)

    Other recent talks can be found at sops.engineering.asu.edu

    Conference/Program Committees (recent and selected)

  • DISC'17, Program Committee Chair

  • NSF Workshop on Self-organizing Particle Systems (SOPS), 2014, colocated with ACM-SIAM SODA 2014, General co-Chair and Founder
  • IEEE NetSciCom'11 (to be held in conjunction with INFOCOM'11), General Chair
  • ACM PODC 2010, General Chair
  • SSS 2012, Program Co-Chair
  • ACM DIALM-POMC'10, Program Co-Chair
  • IEEE NetSciCom'10 (held in conjunction with INFOCOM'10), Program Co-Chair
  • IEEE NetSciCom'09 (held in conjunction with INFOCOM'09), Program Co-Chair and Founder
  • ACM DIALM-POMC'03, Program Co-Chair
  • ACM PODC treasurer (2008-09)
  • ACM SPAA Publicity Chair (2007-11)

  • International Sympsium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Steering Committee Vice-chair, 2018--
  • IEEE NetSciCom Steering Committee Chair 2011--
  • DISC Steering Committee 2016--
  • ACM PODC Steering Committee 2008-2011
  • Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (FOMC, formerly DIALM-POMC) Steering Committee 2010--

    PC memberships:

    Classes Taught Recently

    Discrete Math and Algorithms Seminar

    I completed my Ph. D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization at the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Bruce Maggs.

    Ph. D. Thesis

    Personal Links

    This page has been partially updated on 30/11/18.