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Overview

Andréa W. Richa is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has a research profile predominantly in computer science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields and is frequently published in a range of academic venues, covering topics from distributed systems to robotics and statistical mechanics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Colloidal robotics, 2023, Nature Materials
  • Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation?, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The canonical amoebot model: algorithms and concurrency control, 2023, Distributed Computing
  • The Canonical Amoebot Model: Algorithms and Concurrency Control, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Fault-Tolerant Shape Formation in the Amoebot Model, 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Joshua J. Daymude
  • Dana Randall
  • Christian Scheideler
  • Jamison W. Weber
  • Shunhao Oh

Andréa W. Richa's publications are commonly found in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Nature Materials
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Distributed Computing

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Within these, their subfields of study include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Artificial Intelligence

The primary topics of their research work encompass:

  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Best Publications

  • Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated Objects in a Distributed Environment

    C. G. Plaxton;R. Rajaraman;Andrea Richa

  • Accessing nearby copies of replicated objects in a distributed environment

    C. Greg Plaxton;Rajmohan Rajaraman;Andréa W. Richa

  • The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results

    Michael Mitzenmacher;Andrea W. Richa;Ramesh Sitaraman

  • Coping with a Smart Jammer in Wireless Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach

    Dejun Yang;Guoliang Xue;Jin Zhang;A. Richa

  • Fast Algorithms for Finding O(Congestion + Dilation) Packet Routing Schedules

    Tom Leighton;Bruce Maggs;Andréa W. Richa

  • A jamming-resistant MAC protocol for single-hop wireless networks

    Baruch Awerbuch;Andrea Richa;Christian Scheideler

  • Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems

    Andréa W. Richa;Christian Scheideler

  • An O(log n) dominating set protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks under the physical interference model

    Christian Scheideler;Andrea Richa;Paolo Santi

  • Amoebot - a new model for programmable matter

    Zahra Derakhshandeh;Shlomi Dolev;Robert Gmyr;Andréa W. Richa

  • New approximation techniques for some ordering problems

    Satish Rao;Andréa W. Richa

  • Universal Shape Formation for Programmable Matter

    Zahra Derakhshandeh;Robert Gmyr;Andrea W. Richa;Christian Scheideler

  • A jamming-resistant MAC protocol for multi-hop wireless networks

    Andrea Richa;Christian Scheideler;Stefan Schmid;Jin Zhang

  • A distributed polylogarithmic time algorithm for self-stabilizing skip graphs

    Riko Jacob;Andrea Richa;Christian Scheideler;Stefan Schmid

  • Minimum maximum-degree publish-subscribe overlay network design

    Melih Onus;Andréa W. Richa

  • Programming active cohesive granular matter with mechanically induced phase changes.

    Shengkai Li;Bahnisikha Dutta;Sarah Cannon;Joshua J. Daymude

  • Linearization: locally self-stabilizing sorting in graphs

    Melih Onus;Andrea Richa;Christian Scheideler

  • On Balls and Bins with Deletions

    Richard Cole;Alan M. Frieze;Bruce M. Maggs;Michael Mitzenmacher

  • Leader Election and Shape Formation with Self-organizing Programmable Matter

    Zahra Derakhshandeh;Robert Gmyr;Thim Strothmann;Rida Bazzi

  • Randomized protocols for low-congestion circuit routing in multistage interconnection networks

    Richard Cole;Bruce M. Maggs;Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide;Michael Mitzenmacher

  • Broadcasting in unreliable radio networks

    Fabian Kuhn;Nancy Lynch;Calvin Newport;Rotem Oshman

  • Tight Analyses of Two Local Load Balancing Algorithms

    Bhaskar Ghosh;F. T. Leighton;Bruce M. Maggs;S. Muthukrishnan

  • New Approximation Techniques for Some Linear Ordering Problems

    Satish Rao;Andréa W. Richa

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Scheideler
Christian Scheideler University of Paderborn
Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid Technical University of Berlin
Martin Reisslein
Martin Reisslein Arizona State University
Rajmohan Rajaraman
Rajmohan Rajaraman Northeastern University
Bruce M. Maggs
Bruce M. Maggs Duke University
Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Berthold Vöcking
Berthold Vöcking RWTH Aachen University
Jennifer L. Welch
Jennifer L. Welch Texas A&M University
Shlomi Dolev
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ramesh K. Sitaraman
Ramesh K. Sitaraman University of Massachusetts Amherst

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