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dana randall
 dana randall
dana randall

dana randall is a professor of theoretical computer science at georgia tech .
her primary research interest is analyzing algorithms for counting problems -lrb- e.g. counting matchings in a graph -rrb- using markov chains .
one of her important contributions to this area is a decomposition theorem for analyzing markov chains .
randall was born in queens in new york city .
she graduated from new york 's stuyvesant high school in 1984 .
she delivered her arnold ross lecture on october 29 , 2009 , an honor previously conferred on barry mazur , elwyn berlekamp , ken ribet , manjul bhargava , david kelly and paul sally .
in 2010 , she gave a talk at princeton university 's `` women in theory '' workshop .
in 2012 she became a fellow of the american mathematical society .
her sister is physicist lisa randall .
